Here’s pic of the Wawayanda Hilton a couple months after we finished building it in 1990. Notice the absence of the big rock that was intentionally placed there some time after and how much smaller the tree out front was.
We built this and the Pochuck Shelter (the year before), in order to bridge the gap once known to thru-hikers as “The Void”; that area being the 50 mile shelter-less section between the High Point Shelter and the Fingerboard Shelter in NY. The Wildcat Shelter, added in 1992, was the final addition to bridging the gap, but I was not involved with that one.
I posted a mid-build pic of the Pochuck Shelter in the Pochuck section also.
wawayanda.jpg