How Tech Decides Who Gets to Go Camping

Bots got me a coveted Yosemite reservation—should I feel guilty?

Diana Helmuth
The Bold Italic
Published in
7 min readJul 16, 2019

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“How did you get this site?” I ask the man sitting across from me at a picnic table in Yosemite Valley’s North Pines Campground. It’s Memorial Day weekend. I estimate this site has been sold out since 8:01 a.m. on November 25, 2018, approximately one minute after it became available online.

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Natn'l Outdoor Book Award winner. Post Modern Cupcake. Pretty Cool but I Cry a Lot. Author of "The Witching Year."