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    Default Poplar Ridge Shelter gets new mattresses

    Well actually a new sleeping platform to replace the old style "baseball bat" platform.

    Just in time to make a lot of Thru hikers a little more comfortable.

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    Do someone know if there is a few official/unofficial tentsites option at Poplar Ridge Shelter ? Can't find any infos. I'm supposed to camp there next weekend.

    Thanks !

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    Well dang! I was lookin' forward to seeing this traditional sleeping platform in person next month. Now I'll get nothing but "new and improved." Phooey!

    'course, I'll be in my comfortable hammock no matter! LOL
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    The baseball bats are still there, just in a pile. There is a Q and A, that Dave Fields wrote, in the shelter thats a very entertaining read. I highly reccomend taking a couple hours and enjoy his writing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by md1486 View Post
    Do someone know if there is a few official/unofficial tentsites option at Poplar Ridge Shelter ? Can't find any infos. I'm supposed to camp there next weekend.

    Thanks !
    Lot of area to tent if you are so inclined. The night I spent there the weekend of the fourth, there were 6 pr 7 tents set up around the shelter.

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    A friend suggested to MATC that they cut up and sell pieces of the bats as (he believes) they were the last of them used in shelters.
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    Quote Originally Posted by egilbe View Post
    Lot of area to tent if you are so inclined. The night I spent there the weekend of the fourth, there were 6 pr 7 tents set up around the shelter.
    Thanks for the info !

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