Ore Hill shelter burned down

[Jason Berard]

A local hiker and DOC AT adopter found Ore Hill shelter burned down last weekend. I've posted this on Whiteblaze as well.

I guess I'll check some trailjournals to see if I can figure out a timeline....

 

[TDawg]

Well that sucks!!

 

[Paradox]

That is disconcerting.

 

[Jason Berard]

As near as I can tell , it burnt sometime between late August and last weekend. I can't find any trailjournal entries which mention Ore Hill within that time period, so I can't narrow it down any further than that at the moment.

 

[Becca M]

DANG - I was planning to visit it - I like seeing the old shelters (one less now )

 

[Jason Berard]

Someone saw it on Oct 22nd, still standing, so that narrows the timeline to sometime in the last three weeks.

 

[RoySwkr]

DANG - I was planning to visit it - I like seeing the old shelters (one less now )

That's OK, it was a pretty new shelter

 

[David Metsky]

That's OK, it was a pretty new shelter

I was going to say... This is a fairly new entry in the DOC chain. The crew that build it did the whole thing with hand tools IIRC. *sigh*, time to put together another shelter building crew after they had just replaced the last one that really needed it.

They also recently built Moose Mountain and Happy Hill, so I think this was the third newest. I don't remember if Velvet Rocks was before or after Ore Hill.

 

[Michelle]

Someone saw it on Oct 22nd, still standing, so that narrows the timeline to sometime in the last three weeks.

That's funny, I too was at Ore Hill shelter on 10/22/11, went in/out from cape moonshine road.

It looked great, took some pictures of it, no sign of anyone "living" there. Really too bad as it was in great shape.

 

[1HappyHiker]

That's funny, I too was at Ore Hill shelter on 10/22/11, went in/out from cape moonshine road.

It looked great, took some pictures of it, no sign of anyone "living" there. Really too bad as it was in great shape.

Regarding that 22-October date, Steve Smith, Mike Dickerman and other CROPWALKERS were also there on that day. A photo of the intact shelter is at Steve's Blog (link below).

http://mountainwandering.blogspot.com/2011/10/white-mountain-cropwalk-xxiv-102211.html

 

[Becca M]

You're right - it didn't look old. Any idea when it was made?

 

[GBKDalton]

Actually I think Happy Hill is one of the oldest shelters on the AT. They renovated it recently, not built it. Velvet Rocks is really new. Ore Hill had to have been one of the buggiest nights I spent on my thru-hike. It's not that old. It was a regular three sided lean to.