Overmountain Shelter

[The Weasel]

and if they told you to F yourself and didn't give thier names?

I'd still make the report. Sometimes things happen, and it's worth going on record.

TW

[Lone Wolf]

I'd still make the report. Sometimes things happen, and it's worth going on record.

TW

you'd make a "report" then what? they gonna post a guard at a *hitter to keep folks from throwing trash in it?

[Rain Man]

another reason to do away with shelters and privys

Or alcohol.

RainMan

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[Tennessee Viking]

A group of eight college age boys from Bristol spent Friday night at this shelter. Seemed to be nice enough boys.

HOWEVER, next morning I found their numerous beer cans and some whiskey bottles had been tossed into the privy hole.

Trailfoot, the only thru-hiker there that night apparently woke them up and read them the riot act as soon as he saw it too (we were the first up on Saturday morning). I later asked them if they needed some more lecture. They quickly said "No, Sir." My wife thought it was cute that they called me "Sir" a lot. Anyway, I told them that if they could haul in cans full of beer, they could certainly haul out empty cans and that some local volunteer might have to fish out all those cans and bottles from the privy. (Don't know if that is true with this privy or not.)

A sad case of dumb hikers enjoying and "respecting" their alcohol a whole lot more than they enjoyed and respected nature, the trail, and the volunteers' efforts to provide clean facilities.

P.S. There was no hiker register at the shelter. Otherwise, I would have written up a "report" there.

Rain Man

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Rainman, I wil pass the report on about the privy. My maintenance boss will not like this, especially being the privy.

We will send someone up to the Barn pretty soon, since the first waves are starting up, and drop off a couple registries.

[Lone Wolf]

Rainman, I wil pass the report on about the privy. My maintenance boss will not like this, especially being the privy.

We will send someone up to the Barn pretty soon, since the first waves are starting up, and drop off a couple registries.

what's gonna happen!

[GGS2]

what's gonna happen!

Somebody's going to get s**tfaced, to coin a phrase. After cleaning out a privy into so many heavy duty trash bags and hauling them away down the trail.

[Tennessee Viking]

LW

The Club was already planning to head up to the barn in the next couple weeks to replace some of the broken boards after we conquer the evil blowdowns from winter.

We will probably call Mike Rowe and ask to help with a 'Dirty Job.' Or we will just do it the old fashion way. You want to come out again on another outting.

[Lone Wolf]

LW

The Club was already planning to head up to the barn in the next couple weeks to replace some of the broken boards after we conquer the evil blowdowns from winter.

We will probably call Mike Rowe and ask to help with a 'Dirty Job.' Or we will just do it the old fashion way. You want to come out again on another outting.

i've never been out on an "outing" i do lone wolf maintenance in the damascus area. but never at shelters. i chainsaw, etc. without permission

[Jaybird]

[QUOTE=Rain Man;573967]A group of eight college age boys from Bristol spent Friday night at this shelter. Seemed to be nice enough boys.
HOWEVER, next morning I found their numerous beer cans and some whiskey bottles had been tossed into the privy hole.ETCETCETC.......Rain Man/QUOTE]




Well, i think the KEY WORDS here are "COLLEGE BOYS"

[Rain Man]

Well, i think the KEY WORDS here are "COLLEGE BOYS"

They were on cell phones a lot checking on friends who had gone to Florida for Spring Break instead of staying local as they did. Seems their friends had been stopped by the cops in Florida, who confiscated ALL SEVENTEEN CASES of their beer!

Does seem that some immature males' lives revolve around beer. I've run into really decent, level-headed, respectful, mature "college boys." I suspect the key words are not "college boys" but "beer."

RainMan

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[Johnny Thunder]

Not to condone this...but, I've been told by my aunt (an architect on loan to a group of archeologists excavating Penn's Landing) that 200 year old outhouses have lots of bottles, broken kitchen equipment, etc.

[GGS2]

Not to condone this...but, I've been told by my aunt (an architect on loan to a group of archeologists excavating Penn's Landing) that 200 year old outhouses have lots of bottles, broken kitchen equipment, etc.

Yup. Also really old intestinal parasites, bits of broken leather and just about anything you can think of. Pollen, seeds, bones, fish scales, anything that dosen't get fully digested... Do you think future archaeologists will check the AT privies out to see what brands of beer hikers drank, and what brands of equipment they carried? And what parasites they picked up along the way?

[jersey joe]

Overmountain Shelter was one of my favorite shelters, great view!

[smokymtnsteve]

dat old demon alkyhol strikes agin

[Ashman]

dat old demon alkyhol strikes agin

It's da Debil's Urin!

[Kerosene]

Note that there are actually 3 possible water sources at Overmountain. The first is obvious and reachable by a blue-blaze, while the other two are designated with the silver diamond "Water" shields common to Tennessee. Even if the first two aren't running, there's a continuation of the piped spring further down that I was told has never dried up.

[JumpInTheLake]

I found a good picture of The Barn. I took this last May.

[johnnybgood]

Awesome view,wish I could take off and go tomorrow.

[Tennessee Viking]

Note that there are actually 3 possible water sources at Overmountain. The first is obvious and reachable by a blue-blaze, while the other two are designated with the silver diamond "Water" shields common to Tennessee. Even if the first two aren't running, there's a continuation of the piped spring further down that I was told has never dried up.

Yup..Its down the forest road at the gate going into Roaring Fork. There is a small cascade to the left of the gate and down the slope from the gate is an old foundation with a piped spring.

The one on the blue blaze is pretty much seasonal flow now. But the springs right across the road from the blue blaze are a lot more reliable.

[double j]

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