[at-l] shelter ettiquette

[Phil Heffington <phil.heffington@oc.edu>]

Pet pieves regarding shelter ettiquette:

1.  People who do not carry a tent and then show up to a full shelter in the
rain and expect you to give up your spot because you do carry a tent. (Hey,
I don't mind scrunching up and sharing, but don't expect me to pack up and
carry a wet tent in the rain the next morning because of your hiking style.)

2.  People who believe their (wet) dogs are entitled to occupy shelter space
the same as anyone else.

3.  People who are on "photo shoots" of the sunrise, set their alarms to get
up at 5:00 a.m., then don't get up until everyone else has anyway, only to
find that they had no view of a sunrise in the first place, and then are the
very last ones to leave the shelter.

4.  People who believe that trash bags in the corner of the shelters (in the
Smokies primarily) entitle them to ignore "pack it in, pack it out" trail
ettiquette because a ridge runner is going to have to carry out the mess
that other people have left anyway.

5.  People who seem to spend all of their waking hours worrying, griping and
complaining  about the fact that there are mice in the shelters.  Either
shut up, enjoy them, or bring mouse traps to at least enjoy murdering the
little creatures (It won't help, but the dark side of you might find
pleasure in the blood sport of it).

6.  People who expect you to never use a shelter because you snore.  

7.  People who have sleep apnea and think their snoring is just normal and
that it doesn't affect anyone else.

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