View Full Version : Fontana Hilton getting showers
Midway Sam
11-09-2008, 21:29
I didn't see this posted elsewhere, apologies if it has already been posted. I sectioned from NOC to Fontana this weekend and ended at the Hilton today. I was hoping to use the "real toilets" and hand sink at the bathrooms half-way down the hill to the Hilton but was disappointed to find them closed and obviously under renovation. Attached to the door was a notice by the TVA saying the restrooms were closed until February 2009 for renovations including a new roof and the addition of hiker showers.
Lone Wolf
11-09-2008, 21:33
well that's dumb
Midway Sam
11-09-2008, 21:39
well that's dumb
That's what I thought too, given the number of showers available in the area, unless they plan on closing the ones at the dam. Also, that place is a zoo already during the thru-hiker season, can you imagine what it will be like starting this year? :eek:
Dances with Mice
11-09-2008, 21:45
...Attached to the door was a notice by the TVA saying the restrooms were closed until February 2009 for renovations including a new roof and the addition of hiker showers.It begs the question: What's the difference between a regular shower and a hiker shower?
Midway Sam
11-09-2008, 21:49
It begs the question: What's the difference between a regular shower and a hiker shower? Regular showers actually get cleaned periodically (by the people who use them).
Midway Sam
11-09-2008, 21:56
The notice and a pic of the restrooms...
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So it is too hard to walk down to the dam to take a shower?
That's like a half a mile, man!
Tennessee Viking
11-10-2008, 02:43
That begs the question on how often they will be cleaned. Thats the last thing you want to have when entering the Smokies....a case of foot fungus.
That begs the question on how often they will be cleaned. Thats the last thing you want to have when entering the Smokies....a case of foot fungus.Doesn't shower shoes take care of that problem? If you are dumb enough to not wear them then you deserve a case of foot fungus.
Lone Wolf
11-10-2008, 08:53
Doesn't shower shoes take care of that problem? If you are dumb enough to not wear them then you deserve a case of foot fungus.
yeah, everybody carries shower shoes with them
Dances with Mice
11-10-2008, 08:58
yeah, everybody carries shower shoes with themWhat a croc!
I thought that the Fontana Dam employees cleaned both the Hilton, the nearby bathroom, and the facilities at the dam on a regular basis. The all appeared clean to me when I hiked through there a few years ago.
I assume that the renovated facilities will be cleaned and maintained as they have been in the past.
So it is too hard to walk down to the dam to take a shower?
Yea, the last thing I want to do while hiking is Walk! :rolleyes:
Next thing you know I'll have to carry a pack & camp in the woods, sheesh! ;)
I apreciate their efforts tho. Now if they would just move the phone up the hill,,,,,,,,
Flush2wice
11-10-2008, 10:46
you'd think the TVA would do away with the shelter instead of improving the facility. sinc ethey don't really like hikers anyway.
Lone Wolf
11-10-2008, 11:11
you'd think the TVA would do away with the shelter instead of improving the facility. sinc ethey don't really like hikers anyway.
true that
Blissful
11-10-2008, 14:21
They were closed in 2007 too.
Plodderman
11-11-2008, 18:16
I have ran into a few shelters closed in the past and sometimes it is hard to get the info or maybe jsut ask the right question to get the info. Never turn down a shower though.
RadioFreq
11-11-2008, 18:28
It begs the question: What's the difference between a regular shower and a hiker shower?
People who use regular showers LNT. :D
you'd think the TVA would do away with the shelter instead of improving the facility. since they don't really like hikers anyway.
WHAT!?!?! You mean the TVA police waking up 8 hikers at the shelter at 3 AM while pointing guns at them isn't Love???? :eek:
OK, now I'm bummed out! :rolleyes:
troglobil
11-13-2008, 09:55
what was that about?
Midway Sam
11-13-2008, 13:24
I'm guessing the no alcohol rule.
WHAT!?!?! You mean the TVA police waking up 8 hikers at the shelter at 3 AM while pointing guns at them isn't Love???? :eek:
OK, now I'm bummed out! :rolleyes:
Do they actually do that?
Panzer
Do they actually do that?
Panzer
You haven't met Doctari then.:D Probably thought it was a bear in there attacking the hikers with his snoring. Oh man, I miss you Doctari. Can't wait till next year.
Plodderman
11-19-2008, 17:15
We had a bunch of Boy Scouts wake us up one night during a thunder storm but I a guessing alcohol and other things that I have scene have something to do with it. Noth the boyscout but the hikers