Sorry for coming on a little too strong. It's just frustrating to see the same question (from the same user) more than once. Several of us that follow these message boards regularly use the "What's New" button above, so when these questions get posted to multiple categories, we see ALL of them.
Otherwise, the age of this thread is such that it isn't exactly used as a daily update/status on particular shelters. It's fine to ask new questions rather than resurrect long-forgotten threads.
And BTW, welcome to the boards. While the AT/Shelters category is an appropriate category for questions about a particular shelter, there is also a category specific to
GSMNP that you can also use. There's several people (like myself) that have specific knowledge to GSMNP that may not have similar knowledge about the AT in general. (I'm not an AT hiker, but I do hike extensively in GSMNP).