Planning a hike from Newfound to Fontana in September, and I understand from other hikers I've talked to that they are requiring you to get a back country permit and reserve a specific shelter each night, but are not actually enforcing the part about sleeping in the shelter (evidently trying to keep people a little farther apart). If this is true, I'm thinking about using my new Blackbird hammock instead of the tent. I understand that good tent spots are not very plentiful. I guess my concern is that the areas around the shelters might not be very good for hammock hanging either. Can anyone give me any insight into what I'm likely to find up there?