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Handbook/ 1931/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • ourselves with rocks at the top for fear of being lifted off into Tennessee. In May. however, the laurel and redbud and dogwood will have replaced the slippery leaves and snow and arctic hurricanes of the 1930 hike, and no one need dread a very hard climb. The round-trip hiking distance is about nine and a half miles, most of it over an easy trail. We shall probably go up the Tennessee side, along Chestnut Branch Creek to its head, and then directly up the slope to the ridge and out to White Rock, or Sharp Top. On the way down we may follow the geological survey route to the right of Phillips Divide, and end at Mount Sterling or Waterville, where we can take the bus back to the cars. Take food for one meal and a canteen. There is good water up until within a third of the way to the top. Lodging, supper, and breakfast may be obtained at Hartford for a dollar and a half. The bus fare is about sixty-five cents. Leave Saunders System at 2:00 P. M. Leaders: ARGUS TRESIDDER (2-2635) and TOM Duncan, May 30 and 31 MOUNT MITCHELL "As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May." Come, "hike" with me, and be my love; And I will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods and steepy mountain yields. —Adapted. This trip leads to the highest point above sea level m the Appalachian Highlands and in Eastern America, to the top of Mount Mitchell. 6.71 1 feet. A very recent survey makes a slight change in these figures, but as this number. 6.71 1. has been in the minds of the reading public for generations, these easily remembered figures would Probably be insisted upon. While three or four different routes might be taken, 27
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