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Handbook/ 1933/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • APRIL 23 APPALACHIAN TRAIL WORK TRIP- YELLOW CREEK GAP TO STEKOAH GAP The most gratifying moments in outdoor life come to us when exploring, and even though we are satisfied with "Old Smoky", we should take to new and strange places. 'Tis true we may become lost, but who knows of a better place to be lost than in the mountains. So let us keep faith with our natural urge to satisfy that something within our "commercially worn carcass" and join the big parade in the Cheoah Mountains of North Carolina, on what we may term an "Appalachian Trail Work Hike". The word work should rightfully be omitted from the preceding paragraph, for unlike the Smokies we find trails in the Cheoah Mountains to be much faster—in fact a member of our trail scouting -party -of Jtriy W32, -said with reference to the trail from Wauchecha Bald to Stekoah Gap, "the only tool needed for clearing this trail is a lawn mower." To whet our appetites for more and more of the great outdoors we will camp Saturday night on the shore of Lake Santeetlah. An airplane view of Lake Santeetlah looks like a wriggling octopus, but on a dead level she's a beauty. After victuals Sunday morning, we will back track to Yellow Creek, up which we will drive our cars as far as the road conditions will permit, thence afoot to Yellow Creek Gap where we first touch the ridge crest. From Yellow Creek Gap the ridge which our trail follows extends in a general southeast direction to Stekoah Gap approximately six miles. This ridge section is a part of the water shed mountain that lies between the Little Tennessee River in the north and the Lake Santeetlah, Cheoah River Valley in the southwest. Along the trail we shall see Gregory's Bald in the 27
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