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Handbook/ 1934/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • Leave Dixie System at 7:30 A. M. and then the day will be too short! Wear old clothes (1930 models); bring rations for one meal and don't forget your Knoxville water. Drive to Oliver Springs and then to Wind Rock—70 miles round trip. Hiking distance 3 miles—easy or hard as you take it. Elevation—all you can make. A trip everybody can make and enjoy. Leaders: H. R. DUNCAN (3-7681) ALMA SHIPE (6-1517) APRIL 21 and 22 CABIN RAISING AT GREENBRIER Every Smoky Mountain enthusiast has somewhere in the back of his mind a secretly cherished idea or wish that some day he might own a cabin in the Great Smokies. He also has an indistinct impression of the beauty of its location or surroundings. He builds around his dream some fascinating and intriguing imaginings; its genial chimney, fireside and friends; its windswept roof with warmth inside; its— well, we could go on forever. But the Messer site for the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club is all of this, and more. In fact, it is ideal. The Messer cabin has been torn down, but its chimney was left standing—-a great stone affair spreading an expansive lap of hospitality —just the kind of chimney hikers like. Charles Barber has designed twin cabins facing it on different levels and the logs waiting to go into the house are great hewn fellows thick enough to be warm in winter and cool enough for summer nights. The background for the lodge, as it will stand on the spur below "Breshy", is the distant high screen of the Cat-stairs, blue and baffling in its mystery haze. Up and down on all sides range the great mountains. 22
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