[Awclist] Fwd: Grand Canyon 2009 Main Lottery Dates Announced

[Thomas Robey]

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> From: RRFW Riverwire <riverwire at rrfw.org>
> Date: January 18, 2008 12:21:03 PM MST
> To: trobey at cybermesa.com
> Subject: Grand Canyon 2009 Main Lottery Dates Announced
> Reply-To: riverwire at rrfw.org
>
> RRFW Riverwire
>
> Grand Canyon 2009 Main Lottery Dates Announced
>
> January 18, 2008
>
> In an announcement e-mailed only to registered applicants on January  
> 17, 2008, Grand Canyon National Park announced the dates for the  
> main 2009 non-commercial river permits lottery.
>
> Applications will be taken for the 2009 river running season  
> beginning on February 1st through noon on February 26, 2008. The  
> announcement did not say when the main 2009 drawing will be held or  
> when lottery winners would be notified.
>
> National Park Service officials note that applications for the main  
> 2009 lottery will be accepted through the lottery website only.  
> Anyone without web access will be unable to apply by mail, phone or  
> fax.
>
> The 2009 lottery dates were included as a postscript to another  
> announcement for a follow-up lottery to be held from January 17,  
> 2008 through noon on January 23, 2008, for 11 launch dates in 2008.  
> These dates became available through cancellations or were not taken  
> in prior lotteries.
>
> The 11 launch dates are all in the off season during 2008, and are  
> January 29, February 2, 3, 29, March 4, 8, 26, and December 12, 13,  
> 17, and 26.
>
> According to the NPS, the cancellation lottery drawing will take  
> place in the afternoon of January 23rd, and email notifications will  
> be sent by January 24th, 2008, only 5 days before the earliest  
> available date.
>
> In order to attempt to lure river runners to take these winter  
> trips, the National Park Service will open any unclaimed dates in  
> this week's lottery to a first-come first-served "phone in." The NPS  
> release stated the phone in would start at 8:00AM on 2/28/2008. At  
> the release of this Riverwire, RRFW was unable to reach River  
> Operations staff, but this is most likely a typo, and probably  
> should have shown 1/28/2008 as the actual call-in date.
>
> Limitations to callers still include the one-trip-a-year rule.  
> Applicants must be over 18, and must be registered with an online  
> profile at https://npspermits.us prior to entering the lottery.
>
> Any remaining dates will be posted on the NPS website at https://npspermits.us 
>  and on the recorded phone message at the River Permits office at  
> 800-959-9164 or 928-638-7843.
>
> River runners who have not yet set up a profile with the Park, or do  
> not have an internet connection have no way of knowing of this  
> lottery, so tell your river running friends!
>
> Lottery applicants can refer to the RRFW online lottery tutorial,  
> available for download as an Adobe PDF file of 9.5MB by clicking on  
> the "Lottery Primer" link at:  http://www.rrfw.org/lottery.php.
>
> Additionally, lottery information is available at the free Rafting  
> Grand Canyon Wiki at: http://www.rrfw.org/RaftingGrandCanyon/How_to_Get_a_Permit 
> .
>
> Discussion of the Grand Canyon lottery and winning strategies may be  
> found at The Rafting Grand Canyon Yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Rafting_Grand_Canyon/ 
> .
>
> River Runner for Wilderness offers these services at no charge,  
> supported entirely through your generous donations at: http://www.rrfw.org/store.php 
> .
>
> The Grand Canyon River Permits Office also offers help at  
> 1-800-959-9164 or by email at grca_riv at nps.gov.
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