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Handbook/ 1934/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • Leave Dixie System at 8 A. M. and drive to Maryville, then seven miles out Crooke Creek to the foot of Chilhowee, near the Boy Scout camp, where there will be parking space. The round trip will be about forty six miles by automobile. Bring your sweater, food for one meal and canteen. This is not a big bad Wolf (Gap) and it offers more for your miles. Leaders: C. H. CRIDER (2-3617) ALICE CATON (3-1512) MARCH 25 MT. LeCONTE BY BEAR PEN HOLLOW AND RETURN BY ALUM CAVE This hike up Mt. LeConte will give the hiker a good opportunity to get a maximum amount of climbing and an abundance of beautiful scenery without having to tramp many weary miles to get to the stiff grades and the scenic spots. We plan to climb Mt. LeConte via the Bear Pen Hollow trail which leaves the Newfound Gap highway about one-half mile below Grassy Patch. Leave the cars at the point where the Bear Pen trail leads off from the highway and follow the well-defined trail up the mountain to the left. The trail to the top of the ridge is short and steep. From the top of the ridge we get a wonderful view towards Guyot, Chapman and the Sawtooth Range. After eating lunch and loitering for awhile on the ever-interesting crest of Old LeConte, we take the new Park Service trail down the mountain via Alum Cave Bluff to strike the Newfound Gap highway at Grassy Patch. The distance down the highway from the Patch to the cars is about one mile. From the steep Alum Cave Bluff trail we get good views of the Chimneys, Clingman's Dome, and Gregory Bald. 19
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