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Handbook/ 1931/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • with freshness, haunting in beauty, mellowed with age, is the Road Prong Trail. Indian Gap is reached from New Found Gap where the delegates to the Conference will be carried in cars. Two miles intervene which may be covered in a tramp over the shoulder of Mt. Mingus along a portion of the Appalachian Trail, or in a walk along a narrow mountain road. Either route is beautiful, the second less tiring. The delegates will be picked up again in cars at or near Fort Harry Ford after traversing the Road Prong Trail. Leave the Saunders System at 8 A. M. Join delegates at Gatlinburg at 9:45. Bring lunches. Distance six miles. Leaders: HUGH WHITE (3-5362) and HELEN NORTHUP (3-7060). July 3, 4 and 5 SILER'S BALD AND CLINGMAN'S DOME FROM ELKMONT You can't beat Siler's and Clingman's as a combination for one hike. Get your pack ready, for we start early on the evening of July 3. Bring a tent, air mattress, or whatever you take on a regular auto camping trip, for we shall camp where we park the cars. Some imay sleep in the cars. An early start next morning will put us on Siler's before noon easily, over an old railroad bed's easy grade most of the way. From the cars to Siler's is exactly six and a half miles over the new route. Siler's being nearest of all Smoky peaks to the center of the park area, with an outlook on all sides, is the best place known for actually seeing all the peaks in the Park and learning their relation to each other. Therefore, we shall stay there all afternoon, perhaps taking a little excursion down the veritable Lover's Lane on Forney's Ridge, or back along the state-line towards Buckeye Gap. We are in the preferred feeding ground of wild turkey and grouse, and it is very probable that we shall see the hens with large flocks of chicks. We shall spend the night in the lean-to and start next morning for Clingman's Dome. Take along two canteens of water, if you can. At a moderate gait we should 36
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