Shelter rules

[fiddlehead]

The firepit is not a trashcan.
"No matter how hard you try, tin foil will not burn"

Follow the Golden Rule

[High Life]

yawn.

why don't you go into the hammock forums and tell them to not use hammocks or something?

hahaha, nah i like hammocks ..

[High Life]

thank you ..
i stayed at crap load of shelters in 2007
and the only time i was truely happy and if no one else showed up
then there was the time in VT it was pouring and there was a lot of people
with their gear up for sale in the shelter and i was like can you make some room .. and he fell !@#$ silent .. and they all gave me the blank stare
i gave them one finger parallel to the sky and left ...
sorry im not going through that this time around
i realize i go to the woods to be in the woods if i really wanted to be around people , i'll hang out in copley sq.

[Manwich]

i gave them one finger parallel to the sky and left ...

dontcha mean perpendicular?

[High Life]

dontcha mean perpendicular?

yes i do .. i was actually quoting lyrics from a song ..

[sheepdog]

sideways like tha gangstas do

[wrongway_08]

If you are an ultralighter and refuse to carry your own tent/tarp/hammock—don't cop an attitude when inhabitants of a full shelter refuse to vacate and set up the tent they've been lugging up and down mountains in order to make room for you in the shelter. Especially if you just bragged about the back-to-back 30-mile days you just did.

Yea, I pissed a few of these rejects off.... nothing wrong going ultra light hiking but I'm not getting out of my warm shelter space to put up my tent in the rain so that some tool bag that didnt want to carry and extra 2 pounds can be warm and dry.... not going to happen.

And no, you cant borrow my tent either..... if your too lazy to carry a tent.... you too lazy to be trusted with mine.

[Anumber1]

Shelter rule #412:

If you consider yourself something of a musician, and are actually hiking on the Trail carrying an instrument, and you arrive at a shelter and assume that everyone there really wants to hear you try out your guitar, mandolin, banjo, drums, jaw harp, or harmonica, or, in addition, wants to hear you sing......if you're ever tempted to to do this, in hopes that it will improve everyone's camping experience, I have one word to say:

Don't. Don't even think about it. Ever.

I'm out the door right now to have a tattoo of this rule on my fist

[High Life]

I'm out the door right now to have a tattoo of this rule on my fist

there goes my plan of follows jack up the trail playing the pan flute , dressed in green tight and farting a beat ..

[maxpatch67]

Leave the mice alone....their just trying to survive. I've found a common rule is be quiet when coming in late at night. My bunch has always tried to be quiet, because we will often show up at a shelter about 1 or 2am Eastern. Also, sweep off the bunks when you have a chance.

[dhock83]

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who posted. I have never stayed in a shelter and didn't want to do something that was not cool with others due to the fact that I am new to this and didnt know.