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Handbook/ 1933/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • EPTEMBED HIKE SUPERVISOR^ SEPTEMBER 2-3-4 (Labor Day) SMOKEMONT TO THREE FORKS, BALSAM MOUNTAIN AND MT. GUYOT Let us take advantage of an absolutely new hike, a hike that takes us back into the wilds of western North Carolina where man has never settled. There we find a wilderness long considered by mountain people as about as far back in 'them thar hills" as one can travel. We drive through Newfound Gap to Smokemont, leave the highway there and drive three miles up Bradley Fork. A well defined horse trail leads all the way from here to Three Forks. As we climb to the top of Hughes Ridge a sweeping view of the long valley below vies for our attention with the peaks and ridges of the State line above. The sun swings low and, if the Fates are kind, may favor us with another of the Smokies' flaming sunsets. A little farther along the ridge we will make camo for the night near a good spring. As we prepare breakfast on Sunday morning, the sun rises over deep gorges and canyons that became the last retreat of the hunted Cherokee when his tribe was driven west of the Mississippi- We shall go on through the same virgin forest and along the narrow valleys which formed a refuge for the Indian and is now a last sanctuary 50
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