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Handbook/ 1933/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • smell of sweet ferns and spicy balsams, to spend more time on the trails getting better acquainted with these, the things you love. This will be much easier to do now that the National Park Service is constructing trails throughout the Smokies. Since a number of these trails will be completed this winter, many people who have not been able to reach the more interesting points may now do so with comparative ease. Just a word regarding the one thing about which we are all talking, and for which many are planning. That is the Sixth Appalachian Trail Conference which will be held at Rutland, Vermont, this year. This meeting is the big pow-wow of those who are interested in this gigantic project. Very few of us from along the southern part of the Trail have had an opportunity to visit this section of the country. Vermont is named after its Green Mountains, which are the dominating natural feature of the state. The name Vermont is a combination of the French words, vert, meaning "green" and monts, meaning "mountains". A more detailed account of this trip appears elsewhere in the Handbook. Two years ago it was our privilege to entertain delegates and visitors attending the Conference, which was held at the Mountain View Hotel in Gatlinburg. All of you who attended this meeting met our Yankee friends and know what genuinely good fellows they are—as guests. Now that our positions are reversed, will they be able to say the same thing about us? Anyway, I hope I may have the pleasure of making the trip to Rutland with many of you. Anticipating with keen delight the many happy, carefree hours we will spend together in our own Smokies this year, and with "hearts bustin' with love", I now say to you, Wahee! R
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