WaHHA is okay!
Good news – WaHHA lives on, … but not in its present form. I had a good talk with Watoga Park Superintendent, Jody Spencer, and we have permission to go ahead with WaHHA this weekend as planned. We can have up to four hammocks per campsite, and we can have our cookout and raffle in the Picnic Shelter (with its nice big stone fireplace). I’ll be going back up there this afternoon to string up a big tarp. I have already rented two sites (#22 and #23) for people arriving today.
The really good news is that even though hammock hangs at Riverside Campground will end with this one (to abide by the “one camping unit per campsite” rule, which has been necessitated by the excesses of tenters), we talked about other beautiful groves of trees in the park that would make better group hang spots anyway (no widow makers), and he floated the idea of a dedicated hammock group hang site. “Leave no trace” makes something like that a lot easier to plan. It may be the beginning of having the nature of camping hammocks recognized in state regulations, rather than simply lumping them in with tents as “camping units.”
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