The December RMC newsletter has a comment with respect to the Perch campsite that they are monitoring the overcrowding and resultant user created overflow tentsites and will be discussing the situation and possible solutions with the USFS this winter.

The Perch and the other RMC sites are all on National Forest land and subject to special use permits. They are limited on what they can do by the permit process. I would be curious if they adopt the Guyot approach which is have full time caretaker optimize the spaces available and then have designated overflow areas that the caretaker can direct the overflow?. The alternative used at the other caretaker sites is direct the hikers to a spot outside the 1/4 mile RUA. There are some very obvious signs of those overflow sites at the 1/4 mile boundarynear several of the shelters.