[at-l] New Pico Shelter, Killington VT

[saunterer@jimbullard.org (saunterer@jimbullard.org)]

At 07:50 PM 08/22/2002 -0400, Trailwife@aol.com wrote:
>This morning I drove to the Pico (pronounce "pie-ko") ski area parking lot,
>where the Green Mountain Club was preparing to have lumber and building
>supplies flown up the mountain to the new shelter site. The Shelter will be
>built 0.1 m west of the LT/AT 2.0 m south of US RTE 4. It took the helicopter
>about 2 hours to fly in the material for the shelter, outhouse and a tent
>platform. If all goes well the shelter will have a roof on it by Sunday night
>and it will be ready for hikers shortly after that. The local section is
>doing most of the work. Because it is being built on Federal land the
>outhouse will be wheelchair accessible.

You gotta be kidding.  Is the mountain wheelchair accessible too?

sAunTerer