I still fail to understand how someone who has set up their sleeping bag in an near empty shelter on a rainy night where the wind changes and starts blowing rain into the shelter decides to not go out into the rain and set up his tent but sets it up where he already has his stuff spread out is being inconsiderate. The never ever idealism is pretty strange.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity !
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I am continually amazed by the topics that "get legs" (a lot of posts) on this forum.!!!!
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Yet another thread that is akin to an episode of Seinfelf.
Pretty much always, putting up tents in AT shelters is F-ing ridiculous and it's most often experienced on the AT. I guess it's partly because few trails have as many shelter as the AT. It's also just another long list of personal reasons that I try to avoid sleeping in AT shelters.
Trying to get someone to remove their 2 person tent that took up 3 1/2 spots in a 5 person Connecticut AT shelter is the one time in my hiking life that I came the closest to getting into a fist fight while out on the trail. These people thought it fair to take up all this space w/ a tent inside the shelter because they got to the shelter first that day. There were 7 people total who looked for spots inside this shelter. I was the only one to speak up. I had to walk off to avoid a fist fight. Probably, the best idea since the man was huge, flashed his authoritaive police badge to try to intimidate me, and probably would have kicked my ass anyway!
One time, I saw an AT thruhiker leave trash on the ground and be mean to other people. So I don't think an AT thruhikers should be on the AT.