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  • foregoing, it is suggested that you undertake some or all of the following measures: 1. Encourage your protege to attend a Club trip (excursion or work, or both) and introduce him to the members. 2. Arrange for him to meet the chairman of any activity in which he may be interested and introduce them. 3. Either bring him to or suggest he visit Club Headquarters in order to familiarize him with the personnel there and the material available, such as trail data and equipment. If you will undertake only a portion of the suggestions mentioned above, I am sure your protege and the Club will benefit greatly thereby, and your consideration of his welfare could not help but be appreciated. SHELTER AND LEAN-TO REPRINTS AVAILABLE The P. A. T. C. has issued revised reprints of the two sections of Chapter 9 of Guide to Paths in the Blue Ridge, dealing with shelters and lean-tos. Those reprints, describing each shelter and lean-to and its location and approaches, are designed chiefly for users of the structures who do not own guide books. Since details in regard to reservations, fees, and equipment of the shelters have been brought up to date, however, guidebook owners who are planning to visit a shelter may wish to obtain a copy of the shelter reprint. The major changes in the lean-to reprint are the correction of details with respect to approaches and springs at several lean-tos in the southern part of the Shenandoah National Park and the deletion of the note that Keys Gap and Wilsons Gap Lean-tos had not been completed when the Guide was first issued. Both reprints may be obtained upon request from Headquarters. CAMPING TRIPS IN APPLE ORCHARDS To some it may seem that there is quite a gulf between the primary objectives of the Club and working in apple orchards. And from a superficial point of view, it appears so. We all know, however, that this work was started during the war years to help harvest the apple crop for several orchard owners over whose land our Trail passes. In 1943, 1944, and 1945, we picked a considerable quantity of apples when it was impossible to obtain the normal supply of labor. This year we were again invited to help, and, so, the two-day apple-camping trips began. Almost every Trail Club member knows the fun in a hiking-camping trip. Well, "apple-camping" trips are also fun. At the present writing our trips have been confined to the orchard of our good host, Charles W. Keyser, near Marshall, Virginia. Mr. Keyser chose a perfect camping spot for us in a grove of trees near the orchard. We have plenty of space for our "kitchen" and for our tents and a lovely vista down a fox-hunting trail. Our favorite perch is the stone fence from which wo can view and smell the progress being made over the cooking fire; turn around and we have a splendid view of the mountains. Big and Little Cobblers are in the foreground. Behind them we can see Rattlesnake Mountain, The Peak, Compton Mountain, and Mt. Marshall. (Charlie Thomas says even Marys Rock is visible on clear days.) We learn about apples on these trips. This writer had never heard of apple-thinning. Personal experience had been had with carrot, beet, etc.-thinning, but apple-thinning, never. The results obtained are the same—a better and bigger product. To be able also, nonchalantly, to call an apple by its given name is an accomplishment, we think. Ladder climbing isn't in quite the same category as mountain climbing. But there are few of us who have climbed mountains on an angle at which ladders are placed. If a ladder is almost perpendicular, however, seeming to rest on nothing but clouds, it is safe if "Goldie" says so. "Goldie" is the guardian of the orchard who looks after the
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