Hi;
I plan to be on the AT for several days or more at a time during hunting season (both bow and gun). I am going to purchase a blaze orange sweatshirt, and a couple of hats (one for warm, one for cold days). My backpack is dark green, so I figure the hooded sweatshirt or just the sweatshirt with one of the hats will show up pretty well. But what about my tent? It's an Alps Mountaineering Lynx 1, which doesn't have any bright colors in it. Should I carry a blaze orange flag on a stake to place at my tent site (or attach the flag to the rain fly of my tent) to make sure some over zealous hunter doesn't think it's an animal and shoot at me, or am I being a bit paranoid?
They also talk about making noise, so I have my amateur radio HT I may carry with me. Whether or not I talk to anyone, I can set it to an active freq and just let it play....
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Arden