LOL!
It's all good.
I've seen the light. No more step for step plans advertised online.
Wayne
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LOL!
It's all good.
I've seen the light. No more step for step plans advertised online.
Wayne
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Im not fixated on anything. I'm just saying that allowing hammocks isn't the same as running power. I hammocked in GA pretty much my entire section hike and it cost no one anything except me. No one stood a poll up for me. I won't cite anything because I don't believe any effort is necessary to accommodate hammocks. As for forces on a tree, show me some damage reports of trees dying along the AT due to hammocks and I might take your concerns more seriously. I will, however, give some credit to the notion given the volume of hikers in the GSMNP damage might be a concern from repeated use at the same location. But it is now with shelters.
Frankly, the park doesn't sound very inviting. You can't hammock and you virtually can't tent camp either.
You can't hammock and you virtually can't tent camp either.
there are 104 campsites in the Park.....
of those---only 15 don't allow tent or hammocks.....and all of those are shelters...
that leaves 89 other places to tent and hammock......
I should have included the whole paragraph I was quoting
which was
Frankly, the park doesn't sound very inviting. You can't hammock and you virtually can't tent camp either.
so i responded with plenty of other places within the Park that are inviting.....
One. Campsite 113. Frequently closed due to bear activity. You can drop off the ridge and hit more but really it's always quite a bit of Vertical
The only practical way to hang the AT would be to thru hike the required distance to get a thru hike percent and go during the bubble. Not assured that the shelter will be full but if crowded enough it will be. Ironically to intensify usage would be the only way to do that.
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It's not practical to do a thru hike in the Smokies and expect to hang unless you go during the bubble.
With the exception of the previously mentioned Campsite #113 (~4 miles north of Fontana Dam), all the camping along the AT in GSMNP is at shelters. No other campsites are within two miles of the AT, and none that are less than a 1,500' elevation decent off the AT.
No answer to your question. As I recall, the smokies were mostly logging land. But, we can't do so much as lean against a tree now.
http://www.tnmagazine.org/before-the...ere-clear-cut/