[at-l] smokies question

[Slyatpct@aol.com (Slyatpct@aol.com)]

In a message dated 1/18/2001 4:06:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
rrubin@atconf.org writes:

<< The old Birch Spring shelter in the Smokies will be torn down this spring
 and the site converted to a designated campsite, with tent pads, a cable
 system for hanging food, etc. The pads are already built, and right now the
 shelter remains, but not for long. >>

That's too bad.  I wish they could have restored the shelter or remodeled it 
like Ice Water Springs , Peck's Corner or Davenport Gap, and possibly added a 
few tent areas and a privy.  As it was, most that tented, did so, in the 
toilet area!

I wonder what they are going to do with the old stones from the shelter?  
Using them among the new tents to create retaining walls, steps or such would 
be ........

Sly