Info, questions, comments, experiences (good or bad) regarding - Lamberts Meadow Shelter

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This is right below Tinker Cliffs near Roanoke. For years there was a resident rat residing there. It was the source of some good reading in the journal. However, no journal this past spring when I passed by. The license plate covering the hole in the floor is really a trap door used by you know who.

Has anyone seen or better yet, maybe taken a picture of this varmit.

No problems when I stayed there in May. Can't recall if there was a journal or not.

The privy is too close to the water source, a nearby stream. Be sure to walk upsteam, above the privy to get your water.

Here's a picture of the Shelter.

http://www.whiteblaze.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=340&papass=&sort=1

And the privy.

http://www.whiteblaze.net/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=796&papass=&sort=1

I should have stopped for lunch at the Lamberts Meadow Campsite half a mile north of the shelter. The campsite had a picnic table by a rushing creek with flat, sun-baked rocks.

The shelter is a basic 6-person design with uncovered picnic table and fire pit. The October 2003 register had recent reports of a resident rat who likes to steal items and drag them underneath the floor of the shelter.

Water from a creek just down a small hill in front of the shelter. The "Meadow" is tiny and overgrown with some sort of plant with a long stalk. Limited direct sunlight."

As of 6/18/05 the shelter was clean & rat free. Not so of the mice however, so I was forced to implement my new anti-mouse strategy.

I have found that leaving a light on ALL NIGHT keeps the beasts away. I use thse small tea candles, which last about 5 hrs ea & are quite cheap. One of those lights up 1/2 a shelter quite nicely.

As for the privy, a new privy has been installed; still upstream of the water sourse, but self-contained, so no longer an issue....:clap

As far as the campsite a 1/4 mile north, it looked kind of muddy; though the picnic bench WAS handsome....

We camped there on a hike last September and arrived at the shelter mid- afternoon. There was a HUGE black snake on the rear wall of the shelter...must be alot fewer mice there! It slithered out through a hole in the back of the shelter and up into the woods. We camped under a tarp near the shelter and had no mice problems!

me and my son hank opted for the lambert meadows campsite,it even had a nice picnic table,the shelter was almost full anyway:cool: neo

I hammocked across the stream from this shelter 7 Sep 2005 - register was present and not too chewed so I suspect the mice and rats may be under snake control - someone appeared to have tried to burn a sleeping bag in the fire pit and made a real mess of it - water source was flowing but at no great volume for a stream of that size.

The water was good as of 10 July 2008. Lunched there and had a button buck visit, graze and bed down.

I found it a good experiance I think their was six of us inside the shelter and one on a picknic table. Also the water seems to be in good supply their.

was their today and water is non existant- plenty at the campground but dry at the shelter.