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Handbook/ 1933/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • "I saw and made a picture of a gorgeous turkey gobbler at one of these homes; and I never saw such 'hearts-a-bustin' with love' as the strawberry bush is called, and such dogwood berries as those on Wright's Creek. I surely hope we will not be too early in the summer to find them in their glory again." "What about the Knob?" "Well, there has been erected on Barnett's Knob, whose altitude is 4530 ft., a sixty foot observation tower from which it would seem that the whole southwestern end of North Carolina can be seen. If the day is clear and we are sure it will be, you can see, to the west and north of you, the state line from Clingman's Dome to Mt. Guyot and east and south the Balsam mountains and other points too numerous to mention." "We leave the Dixie System at 7:00 a. m. Take canteen and food for one meal. The round trip hiking distance is about three to six miles with auto mileage about 160 miles. Leaders: JIM THOMPSON (2-2153) RUTH WALSH (6-1817) Don't eat when you are exhausted. Your system is busy repairing tissue and can't spare the proper attention to gastric juices. Consequences are indigestion and constipation. "Only a nut bolts his food." Literal directions for reaching a mountain destination are like a friend's advice; take them for what they're worth but use your own judgment. Geographical distinctions are faint and terminologies differ widely. 44
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