[at-l] Tentsite fees in the Whites

[gaudet@attbi.com (Arthur Gaudet)]

I don't believe anyone has posted this info for the group, so here it is.

AMC Outdoors, May 2002, p. 46, announces that tenting fees this 
summer will be $8, a rise from $6 at 9 of the 14 tentsites that the 
AMC maintains (these are the 9 with caretakers). They cite rising 
costs (of course) and claim that "We still haven't asked campers to 
fully pay the cost of a stay". The shelter supervisor Kevin Metheny 
says that AMC kicks in an additional $5 per person, per night.

The same issue also has a "Capital Campaign" ad to generate 
donations. In the list it looks like the new Crawford Notch Highland 
Center is budgeted at $6.5 M. This new facility is meant to replace 
what was known as the Crawford Hostel. I don't know anything about 
the decommissioning of the Hostel or the timeline for the new 
facility. Anyone?

Third item I guess. This list, in past years, did a good job of 
generating a list of "stealth campsites" in the Whites. I thought 
this was a useful list for thruhikers since many of them feel trapped 
by the AMC's hold on facilities along the AT. Has anyone got a copy 
of the list? I believe it was constructed traveling S to N, starting 
at Glencliff, NH just before the climb on Moosilauke and continuing 
over to Old Speck in Maine.

RD