[at-l] Shelter Improvements

[athiker@plantnet.com (Pete Fornof)]

This is great news. The shelters in the Smokies were basically the slums of
the trail and you didn't have much choice but to stay in them if you were a
section hiker. Glad they are putting privies in also. You really had to
watch your step around the shelters.

Pete Fornof
Broknspoke



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> The third grant from the Haiman Foundation will provide $14,000 to
> renovate the Mollie's Ridge shelter, which is located on the Appalachian
> Trail near the western end of the park. This grant will also provide
> funds to install sanitary facilities at eight different shelters along
> the Smokies' section of the Appalachian Trail.
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> These projects are part of an ongoing effort to renovate all of the
> park's trail shelters to provide hikers with safer, cleaner, and more
> comfortable shelters. The newer shelters are also designed to minimize
> potential problems with black bears.
>
> This is the fifth shelter rehabilitation project funded by the Haiman
> Foundation, including the renovation of the Mount LeConte shelter
> earlier this year.
>
> Richard Haiman was an avid hiker and long-time supporter of Great Smoky
> Mountains National Park. Haiman gave $65,000 to Friends of the Smokies
> after Hurricane Opal damaged many of the park's trails in 1996.
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> Steve
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