Shelter decorum
What are your pet peeves about shelter mates?
Farting and snoring. Oh wait, I'm the one that does that, not my shelter mates. Hence the reason I hate sleeping in shelters. No one will talk to me in the morning.
Lead me to the long green tunnel.
They like to eat the nosepads on my glasses. A real drag.
I dont have a huge problem with me being pissed about being awake due to someone snoring.. My problem is when the sorer is pissed at anyone who say anything or wakes them up to stop it. Once in 2008 the snoring person made up for the noise by laying his down quilt over me while getting ready to hike out super early... this is all while standing over me nude lol in the shelter(thought someone and hung bear bags right over me)... never look out the breathing hole to see what's going on, you might not like the scene
My Boston Terrier Chief snores like an old man after a hard days hike and has been known to get me blamed for it. He also has been know to snuggle with pretty girls 4 people away from me in the lean-to.
Mice suck. They have and will jump on your face, or just party into the night and keep you awake.
AT 2008, PCT 2010
I wouldn't mind someone naked standing over me if he was cute . . .
Lead me to the long green tunnel.
I'll stay by a shelter, but not in one because my hammock insulation isn't enough padding to sleep on a shelter floor. Also, I tend to snore like a freight train. I do like to camp nearby in order to use the table and benches, make a fire, have a nearby water source, enjoy the company, etc.
My only beef is when people let their stuff spread out to fill the available space. Come on, people! If you have the entire table top covered with your crap and I'm standing there holding my stove and my food bag, tighten it up a little bit. If your clothes and gear are covering the entire shelter and there are only two of you, don't make me ask if you can move something so I can set my pack down. It just seems like good manners to me, I guess.
Originally Posted by chiefdaddy
I dont have a huge problem with me being pissed about being awake due to someone snoring.. My problem is when the sorer is pissed at anyone who say anything or wakes them up to stop it. Once in 2008 the snoring person made up for the noise by laying his down quilt over me while getting ready to hike out super early... this is all while standing over me nude lol in the shelter(thought someone and hung bear bags right over me)... never look out the breathing hole to see what's going on, you might not like the scene
My Boston Terrier Chief snores like an old man after a hard days hike and has been known to get me blamed for it. He also has been know to snuggle with pretty girls 4 people away from me in the lean-to.
Mice suck. They have and will jump on your face, or just party into the night and keep you awake.
My golden retriever snores, and I've often tried to blame him for my snoringApparently he snores, but I snore louder.
One woman insisted on using the shelters even though she was sick and coughing/sneezing...I thought that was very disrepectful to other hikers and I know she was carrying a tent. if you are sick, stay in your own tent or hammock as a courtesy to others please. personally, i tried to avoid them for sleeping but would tent nearby often for the social aspect and availability of water and privy.
do not put your tent in the shelter.
Shelters are not for sex when there are others there. I don't care how "furtive" or sneaky you think you're being. We know what you're doing behind your makeshift curtain.
If you don't have something nice to say,
Be witty in your cruelty.
It peeves me to be asked what my peeves are.
"If you don't know where you're going...any road will get you there."
"He who's not busy living is busy dying"
Had to re-read that. Thought you had typed, "Shelters are not for having sex with others"
Fear ridges that are depicted as flat lines on a profile map.
Drippin' wet clothes all over my dry stuff.
"Fish Camp Woman.... Baby, I like the way you smell"
- Unknown Hinson
Rude dog owners who think we all want their pooch on the foot of our bags. Barking....I won't even go there, not enough white space provided here to express my thoughts on that subject.
ad astra per aspera
shelters are my pet peeve...
HAPPY TRAILS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD HIKE!
me. im my own peev. hate myself. and i smell. and i make crappy smelling foods and drink water all night loudly and snor and fart and talk to much and make calls and use lights and go in and out peeing all night and get up at dark sizzeling really loud bacon and then i fall down all day hiking and cant get up and folks have to wait. i suck totaly to be in a shelter with.
matthewski
Having shelter mates is my pet peeve.
So I avoid shelters and enjoy my hammock.
If people spent less time being offended and more time actually living, we'd all be a whole lot happier!
I always wondered why people don't just fart quietly. Am I the only one who knows how to do that?
Panzer
I had that experience at Sassafras Gap shelter north of NOC last year. I got woken up after being bumped by a leg and leaned up to see what it was, when I laid back down I heard a quiet "Don't stop!" from the female student sleeping next to me to her "friend". Put earplugs back in...go to sleep!
Just because you can't hear it doesn't mean it's quiet
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