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Handbook/ 1931/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • dollars. The bus leaves Tremont at 5:00 P. M. on Sun- ' Leaders: A. G. ROTH (6-1895) and ERNEST FRYAR (6-1698). April 24 GET-TOGETHER MEETING Every year as part of the regular program of the Club, the members gather for a nature-study meeting. Talks are given on the wild life, both vegetable and animal, of the Great Smokies. That we need such instruction is in no way denied by our experiences in climbing the mountains. Many of us. curiously enough, hike for years without really knowing the difference between a dog-tooth violet and hepatica, between spruce and hemlock, between a sparrow and a swallow. Some of us. indeed, are content to limit our botanical knowledge to ability to identify laurel and dogwood and rhododendron and galax and azalea, and urbanely wave aside the rest as vague lichen or moss or "I don't know. The nature-study meeting will be held this year at T. S. McKinney's home on Black Oak Ridge. An interesting entertainment is promised. Leave Saunders System at 7:00 P. M. Leaders: JACK BRYAN (3-3131) and ELIZABETH IJAMS (3-5092). May 2 and 3 LECONTE FROM GRASSY PATCH AND DOWN THE RIDGE SOUTHEAST OF HUGGINS HELL, OR "SKIRTING HELL" The nomenclature of the Great Smoky Mountains is adorned with fitting and picturesque names. Typical among them are the Jump-Off, Tow String Creek, Sweat Heifer Ridge, and the Bullhead. Overwhelmingly appealing to those with a spark of the devil in their blood is Huggins Hell. So insistent have been the demands to repeat this trip through Hell that one would think that some of the hikers expected to find 23
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