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Handbook/ 1932/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • and carry it this year to Rutland, Vermont, the meeting place of the Conference. Therefore a pep meeting will be held at the Y. M. C. A. at 7:30, May 6th, to prepare a send-off for the Conference. Other Clubs are expecting us to send a good delegation to Rutland and if we enter this with the punch we did last year they can't keep us away. Just a few of the members can't do all the work; it takes everyone. So come to the big Pep Meeting. You may expect the usual good time and maybe a swim too. Elevation: Just what you make it. Leaders: JIM THOMPSON (5-5952) GEO. BARBER (2-2105) // May 14th - 15th SILER'S BALD AND CLINGMAN'S DOME Siler's Bald, Clingman's Dome, we do not think of them together. We have gone to Siler's from Elk- mont, we have gone to Clingman's from Indian Gap— but few of us have gone to the one from the other. Siler's, with its grassy, straw-colored summit, bulging in the center of a vast circle of hazy, blue ranges has become an old friend Clingman's, densely wooded, moist, massive, frequently cloud-capped peak has been visited often. The ridge between remains a sort of "No man s Land", comparatively unknown to hikers. And yet, it has none of the characteristics of a "No Man's Land." It is a highland link of vast beauty and very easy grade. From the highest point in the Smokies, Clingman's Dome, the trail threads its way to Siler's, slipping off steeply from Clingman's and groaning a bit as it scrambles the last few hundred yards to Siler's. But in between are 3 miles of great trail—high, open, gentle in slope, incomparable in outlook. The height, which overlooks all it surrounds—the unending succession of choice views—the ease with which they are obtained—give the hiker a feeling of 28
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