Fw: [at-l] Peters Mountain Shelter

[rambleon@email.unc.edu (Jeremy Reiter)]

Chuck wrote:
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> This shelter is a very large double decker shelter next to the
> Earl Sheaffer shelter. The story goes that the SATC wanted to name this
> shelter after Earl, but Earl wouldn't accept the honor, as this was not
> as he envisioned the AT hike. He had never stayed in so nice a shelter
> as that. The original Earl Sheaffer shelter still stands and is used by
> hikers, maybe 50 yards from the new double decker. This shelter took on
> the name of the mountain it stands on, Peters Mountain.

I had heard that Earl wanted his name "removed" from the original shelter when
they added a wood floor. Ya gotta love the guy. 

-Rambleon-

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