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Handbook/ 1931/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • a small cliff, drops a few feet, and vanishes into a formidable thicket of rhododendrons, rendered frightful by saw briars. From above, he cannot be seen, his progress being marked by a ridiculously feeble disturbance of the bushes. But he emerges, in time, at the bottom, only to encounter a creek whose waters he must wade and hurdle for a "spell." before entering at last upon the smooth trail to the Grassy Patch. Leave the Saunders System at 1 P. M. Distance about nine miles. Bring food for three meals. Leaders: CARL BOGER (3-5687) and HERBERT HUNZE (3-5687). May 16 and 17 WHITE ROCK, OR SHARP TOP, FROM HARTFORD This peak, at the northeastern end of the state- line ridge, corresponding to Gregory's Bald, forty miles southwest, provides a thoroughly interesting climb, with frequent views, from unfamiliar angles, of the winding Pigeon River valley and English Mountain in one direction Guyot, Greenbriar Pinnacle, and LeConte in another, and chaotic North Carolina wilderness down the eastern side. We shall spend Saturday night in Hartford, about seventy miles from Knoxville by way of Newport. In the morning we take a bus on rails to the foot of the trail about four miles distant from Hartford. Those who do not want to take the hike may go on to visit the giant power plant operated by the Carolina Power and Light Company at Waterville. Transportation is available there to the dam, twelve miles up the Pigeon River, whose wall, 183 feet high, backs the water up for six miles. If we come down in the afternoon over the North Carolina trail to Mount Sterling, we can see the power plant while we are waiting for the bus. In December, when the Club made this trip, we had such memorable adventures as lifting from the bus's track six box-cars which had been blown flat across it by the wind, the same wind, by the way, that made us anchor 26
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