[at-l] TRAIL QUESTION!!!

[papa_bear_nyc@yahoo.com (Papa Bear)]

Interesting.  We chatted with Ellis, a Ridgerunner in Massachusetts at Kay
Ridge.  He said he was always putting screw eyes along the edges of
platforms but seople kept removing them.

Pb
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From: "cosmo catalano, jr." <Cosmo.A.Catalano@williams.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] TRAIL QUESTION!!!


> In Mass we have many tent platforms, they let us use less than ideal
> terrain for campsites.  Most of our platforms have acquired an
> assortment of bits of hardware around the edges (bent nails, screws
> etc.) but they are never in the right place for me, so I bring along
> a baggie that has four 3/16" x 1" eyescrews and some short bits of
> cord in it.  I can put the screws into the platforms fairly easily
> ('tho a leatherman is helpful here) wherever I need to have them to
> fit my tent.  I unscrew them an take them away when I leave.  Lots of
> tenters have self standing tents that have no problems on the
> platforms (other than blowing away...).
>
> Cosmo
>
> Cosmo Catalano
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> Massachusetts Appalachian Trail Committee
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