Are North Manitou Campers at Risk 🏕️ Stranded in Bad Weather ☔️

10 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Sander Scott. This content was uploaded by Sander Scott. This is a YouTube video titled "Are North Manitou Campers at Risk 🏕️ Stranded in Bad Weather ☔️" (created 2024-10-10). The excerpt is an informal dialogue between two speakers—likely camp or park staff—discussing the risk of overnight campers being stranded by bad weather, how they warn guests about possible schedule changes, and an anecdote about hunters left out for 3–4 extra days in the fall when the parents ran the operation. The tone is conversational and focused on camping safety and logistics.

So for overnight campers, has anyone ever gotten stranded because of weather coming? They expected to be— Absolutely. And that, I'm sure you're warning, you know, parties that that's a possibility. We try— rare, but we try.
And we try and let people know also that are going out, like, this date you're coming back, it's potential that we won't be able to run or our schedule will be different. So if you have something that you have to be back for You should know. So we try and let everyone know that. As far as I've owned it, it's been one day the longest.
So since 2004, only one day.
I do recall when my parents ran it, I think we left hunters out there like 3 or 4 extra days in the fall. The fall. Oh, they're hunters.
Exactly. If anybody could do well, they were probably happy about it. Got a few more days out there. Well, their wives weren't.
They were calling. That was back when the home phone was also the business phone.