travel
By Lynda Roberson
Of The Print
Hosteling could be defined as
traveling under your own steam­
bicycling, hiking, canoeing, skiing,
sailing, horseback riding, and stay­
ing at yourth hostels.
Hostels are inexpensive over­
night accommodations with respon­
sible adult supervision, owned or
chartered by one of 48 national
hosteling associations. These asso­
ciations are affiliated with the
International Youth Hostel Fed­
eration.
Too many people associate hos­
teling with summer trips to Eur­
ope because, for the most part,
bicycling, hiking and using youth
hostels is. done by college students
who want to visit Europe inex­
pensively.
However, hosteling is flourish­
ing in the United States as well as
the rest of the world as a year-
round fun thing to do.
American Youth HOstels, Inc.
(AYH) is a youth service organi­
zation supported
by voluntary
contributions, as well as member­
ship and program fees.
The American Youth Hostels
national headquarters in Delaplane,
Va., reports the largest surge ever
of college-age hostelers who used
the non-profit travel program to
stay inexpensively overnight at
some 4,500 hostels in the United
States and throughout the rest of
the world.
While most hosteling is done
by bicyclists and backpackers dur­
ing the summer, .many hosteling
activities abound throughout the
winter at cross-country and down­
hill skiing areas.
Hosteling isn't a fancy way to
travel, but it is a way to keep
close count on your traveling dimes
and dollars. For the most part,
you'll be bunking-it in dormitor­
ies, furnishing your own towels
and sheets (or "sheet sleeping
sack" where required), and you'll
Hostels provide inexpensive lodging
have to do a little chore, like
sweeping down a hallway or carry­
ing out the trash.
Unlike motels, you'll usually
have access to a fully equipped
kitchen where you can prepare
your own food.
Each hostel
also has hot showers and a com­
mon room where hostelers gather
around the fire or a piano at the
end of the day to exchange ideas
and enjoy each other's company.
In the United States and Can­
ada, you'll find hostels in lodges,
converted- lifeguard stations like
on the island of Nantucket, com­
munity centers, remodeled sorority
houses and even an old city jail
like the hostel in Ottawa.
Overseas hostels are located in
medieval castles, old mills, church­
es. former railway stations and,
like the one in Stockholm, in a
remodeled,
three-masted sailing
vessel.
The overnight cost at the hostels
ranges from 90 cents to $3.50 a
in your thinking. Its membership
is open to everyone from young­
sters to the senior citizen.
There are various customs that
are followed by most hostelers.
They travel with a current youth
hostel pass, their own sheets or
"sheet sleep sack"
and eating
utensils.
They arrive at hostels
between 4 and 7 p.m. and turn in
early, usually around 11 p.m., so
they can rise early around 7 a.m.
or so and be out of the hostel by
9:30 a.m. (hostels are closed from
9:30 a.m. until 4 or 4:30 p.m.).
Most hostelers buy their own
food and pitch in with chores as it
is the
custome to leave every
hostel in better and cleaner condi­
tion than you found it.
Alcoholic beverages are taboo
in hostels, except in certain Eur­
opean areas where wine is served
with meals. Smoking is not usually
allowed in hostels, except in areas
designated by the houseparents.
The customary limit one can
night.
stay at a hostel is three days unless
Some hostels have family quar­ special arrangements are made with
ters available, but for the most the houseparents for longer stays.
part, families accustomed to hostel­
Each hosteler is required to
ing know that they may have to present a valid membership pass
split up for the night. This can be from one of the 49 IYHF associ­
an exciting, new adventure for ations, which he turns in to the
the children.
houseparents at check-in and re­
Separate men's and women's ceives back when he leaves the
dormitories
with
double-deck hostel.
bunks are available at most hostels.
A membership card is issued by
All of the hostels are supervised the American affiliation of the
by resident
house-parents who
IYHF and it entitles you to use
assure that rules and regulations any of the lYHF's 4,500 hostels
are adhered to.
located
throughout the world.
Anyone and everyone is eligible AYH membership cards must show
to join a youth hostel association. a photo (individually attached)
The Name "youth hostel" is slight­ and must be signed. This is a com­
ly misleading because it no longer mitment to abide by Youth Hostel
refers to just young people. The
customs.
only requirement now for hostel­
In some areas of the United
ing is to be "young" in spirit and States, seasonal rates may apply.
such as ski areas during the winter,
In this case, hostelers may have to
pay as much as $4.25 a night.
However, many skiers readily agree
that this charge is very low con­
sidering other rates in the area.
Portland has recently acquired
a new youth hostel at 1809 N.W.
Johnson. It is called the Northwest
Portland Hostel and is operated by
the Holy Order of Mans. Donald
Slakie is the supervisor of the
new hostel, which is opened year
man named Peter Burns, who has
hunted the Yeti purported to be
a distant Himalayan cousin of
Bigfoot, keeps detailed files and a
map of Bigfoot sightings.
"The expeditions usually take
about four to five days at least,"
said Beaty. "We set up a base
camp and work out of that, going
off the main trails—broken but
not well used."
"Be armed with cameras. It has
never been discovered that Bigfoot
is dangerous, but rather a shy
creature who eats berries and roots,
and perhaps small game like mice
For those who are looking for
something unusual to do over the
winter holidays could consider
joining an expedition to hunt for
the legendary Bigfoot.
Dale Beaty and Mike Hoffman,
along with several other hunters,
lead an expedition last fall and are
getting ready to try it again soon.
Beaty who is majoring in history
at the College said the reason he
hunts the creature
is because
people say Bigfoot doesn't exist.
Beaty wants to prove it to himself, and rabbits."
one way or the other.
"The purpose is to prove that
The trip is being planned for
Bigfoot does or doesn't exist, and
the Estacada area near Squaw
then to protect his existence as
Mountain and the Tygh Valley
he would certainly be considered
country where numerous sitings
an endangered species." said Hoff­
have been made recently.
man.
"We welcome people to come
"It has been found that more
along who know what they are
footprints and
sightings have
doing." Hoffman said.
occured in the winter months,"
"If one is planning a hunt, said Beaty. Perhaps it is the lack
a person should research the sub­ of food that brings him down to
ject in your school or local library, the valleys or maybe it is just that
read books sold on the subject, there are more hunters roaming
or visit the research center located the woods at this time.
in The Dalles. Some good books
"The areas where most of the
on Bigfoot are written by Saunder- sightings have been observed are
son, Green and Napoir."
Washington, Northern California,
There has also been a public Oregon and British Columbia. The
clearing
house created in The
national forest by Estacada is a
Dalles for the public. An English­ good local area."
9814 58th Avenue C, Puy®
Wash., 933.
According to Hibbard®
you join AYH, you will recel
free copy of the American
Hostel handbook. This bool®
all hostels in the United’ sS
their overnight fees, special i|
mation pertaining to eacM
and maps of most areas. I
New youth hostels are sm
ing
up all over- the counts
seems to be the best way to go I
thé
person who likes tow
but has limited means.
Students offered
cut-rate travel
For the students who wish to
enrich their lives with education­
ally oriented tours over the winter
holidays, colleges and universities
throughout the West are arranging
for innovative tours throughout
the winter season of 1977-78.
These tours will unite students
of similar interests and provide
them with a relatively low-cost
way to see Europe.
Some examples of tours being
offered are:
7th Annual European Ski Tour,
University of Nevada at Reno,
December 19-January 4, 1978,17
days to the super resorts of either
Kitzbuehel, Austria and Canazei,
Italy, or Mayrhofen, Austria and
Davos, Switzerland, plus 2 nights
Munich, Includes airfare; hotels;
meals, special Christmas,
New
Year's Eve, and Farewell Dinners;
lectures; and sightseeing for $858
and $899.
CSUN Ski Europe, California
State University at Northridge.
Search for bigfoot adds new twist
By Joy Williams
Of The Print
round. This hostel is afffl
with AYH.
Anyone interested in jo|
or starting a youth hosts sJ
contact Mrs. Gene HihiM
and Davos, Switzerland plus 3dn
Vienna including the New Yea«
Eve Imperial Ball, and Zuricfl
$855.
Christmas Russia, December ll
—January 3, 1978, 18 days!
Paris, Leningrad, Kiev, Mose®
and Vienna. Includes airfare; ha
tels; most meals; sightseeing®
theater tickets;
2 Gala dinnal
parties; and farewell party fa
$1399.
|
Skiers Karnival, January 8—231
1978, 16 days, one week each afl
the jet-setters resorts of Dav«
Switzerland and Kitzbuehel , Austl
ria, plus two days Munich. Includes
airfare; hotels; meals; 'transféra
parties; sightseeing; and a night]
at Munich's annual city-wide fesi
"Fasching," for $949.
For brochures and informa™
contact Margaret Pfefferkorn at-
the University of Nevada, Reno,
(213) 478-2511,
vacation plans
The famous Pattern Bigfoot
film, that was shown in many
theatres throughout the United
States, was examined by Walt
Disney productions and was re­
ported to be a fake. "It
most remarkable because no
dence could be found that it
not real," Beaty said.
According to Beaty there
whole county of people who
believe in the existence of Bigfoot.
Skamania County in Washington
has an active law that no one can
hurt, capture, or hunt Bigfoot, he
said.
Before plans are made to go
on an expedition one should con­
sider the old Indian curse that
anyone who sees Bigfoot will suffer
drastic results. Paterson, who pub­
licized the Bigfoot film, died in
a car wreck two years after a
sighting and a whole family was
drowned after seeing the creature
while on a fishing trip.
Is Bigfoot a reality or just a
large bear, a cross between a
mountain man and an Indian, the
missing link, a creature from outer
space or just imagination? No one
knows for sure. But if he is imag­
ination and nothing more, then he
has caused one of the largest run­
ning hoaxes in history and sight­
ings have been recorded on six
continents as far back as 1840.
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