Re: [at-l] Tent in shelter (was bivies)

["Mara Factor" <m_factor@hotmail.com>]

You don't know when someone might come in late.  That's why if you do 
something like this, you must be prepared to knock it down - quickly and 
quietly should others need the space.

In the same vein, even if you aren't setting your tent up, if there are only 
a few in the shelter, I still try to make sure to leave a space completely 
clear in case latecomers show up. I don't want to have to move my stuff in 
the middle of the ngiht when I'm groggy.

FWIW, on my entire thruhike, I only had two occurences of someone coming in 
late.  Once was truly late (~11:00pm) and the other was just after dark 
(~8:00pm) but it seemed really late because there were three of us in the 
shelter, and two were already sleeping.  In the first case, the shelter was 
sort of full but we all woke up to make room anyway.  In the second case, 
there was plenty of room so nobody had to scramble to make space.

Mara
Stitches, GAME99


>From: Bpwildness@aol.com
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:16:29 EST
>
>In a message dated 1/25/00 6:57:44 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
>mcleod-keith.doreen@worldnet.att.net writes:
>
><< We put our tent in the shelter one time when we were alone as the
>mosquitos were
>  really bad. The majority of the time bugs were not a problem.
>                              Triathlon Grandma >>
>
>My question is, how do you know that hikers are not coming in late? I have
>been at numerous shelters when hikers got in at 11 pm.
>
>   Bpwildness
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