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Handbook/ 1931/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • and for the 13th and 14th we have chosen two of our' finest hikes for our guests' enjoyment, one to LeConte \ and down Roaring Fork Creek, the other to Newfound and Indian Gaps and down the beautiful Road Prong Trail. For those of us who are interested in the great Maine-to-Georgia trail and the out-of-door folk who are helping to build it, this will be a memorable occasion. An article about this trail and its development has been written for our book by Judge Arthur Perkins of Hartford, Connecticut, who is the chairman of the Appalachian Trail Conference. The hikes that are new to the club this year take us to Mount Alexander (proposed Mt. Kephart). into Huggins Hell, Mount Mitchell, Dunn's Creek from Cosby, Equa Nulty Gap (formerly Ekaneetelee Gap), Meigs Mountain, Hughes Ridge, Gregory's Bald from Deal's Gap. We are also, for the first time, combining Cling- man's Dome and Siler's Bald on the same trip, and likewise Gregory's Bald and Thunderhead. In January we are to have a new sort of indoor meeting at the Y.M.C.A. when the program will be given over to talks on the lives and experiences of some of the men for whom Smoky peaks were named. The new 1930 map, used by the courtesy of the East Tennessee Automobile Club, has the new park boundary-line and the most recent government estimates of altitudes. The list of hiking distances given in the section entitled Information, after the program of hikes, is a new feature this year. These were measured by several members of the club with a metered bicycle wheel, and we feel that the information will be very useful to club members. The bibliography, an innovation in 1930, has been included again this year. In this issue it contains only books about the Great Smoky Mountains, about the mountain folk of the southern Appalachians, and about hiking and camping in general. 10
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