[at-l] The Birches...

[Sloetoe]

Yeah, it's true.
Southbounders are required to make a reservation ahead
of time -- like 3 months -- pretty wild considering
the travel requirements of most.

The idea is that SOBOs can determine when they start,
but NOBOs can't determine when they finish.

Great theory. Practice is "tough feces."


--- Felix J <athiker at smithville.net> wrote:
> Hey, y'all
> A few questions for you about The Birches Shelters
> (Teej, you there?)
> 
> Pilot was told (by Ranger Bruce) that the shelters
> are for northbound 
> thru-hikers only...yes ONLY. Is this true? If so,
> what do they recommend 
> that southbounders do?  If this is true, it is one
> of the most assinine 
> things I've heard in quite sometime...excepting the
> assinine bringing up 
> of the 'drowning' again, of course...