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Handbook/ 1931/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • The hike starts from the hotel and follows the railroad for three-quarters of a mile along Sam's Creek to the junction of the Thunderhead Prong. The trail from Copyright Jim Thompson Co ^ he grassy meadows on top of Thunderhead make fine pasture lands in summer here on was "swamped out" and blazed by Rev. William E. Clark of Memphis, Tennessee, who was recuperating in the mountains during the summer of 1930. Rev. Mr. Clark did a great deal of work on the trail, so it is easy to follow with its blazes of red paint and painted signboards at trail junctions. About a mile from Tremont, we come to the "blow-down" which is a pretty scene with ■"1 its trees so straight and dean-looking. Freakish windstorms sometimes blow through the mountains and totally destroy the forest cover. The new growth that follows is called the blow-down. On the upper border of the blow-down there is a tulip poplar which is six and a half feet in diameter two and a half feet above the 21
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