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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • mi Appalachian Trail between Mi. Guyot an i Tricorner Knob. the most important. Horace Kephart of Bryson City, with many other woodsmen and mountain people, believed that fire is a very important if not universal factor in the initiation and maintenance of heath balds. Huggins' Hell, one of the largest of these heath thickets, is in the Hazel Creek section. It contains possibly four or five hundred acres of rhododendron and laurel thickets. Irving Huggins, who lived in the Hazel Creek section, was herding cattle on Siler's Bald one day and wanted to reach another knob. He thought he could cross the intervening "slick" but was trapped there for a number of days before he could find his way out. There is another heath thicket called "Hug- gins' Hell" in the Alum Cave Creek section. The slicks have interesting names. There are Devil's Race Path, Devils 98
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