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Handbook/ 1934/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • The lodge will be convenient to all Greenbrier points above or below. It is an expression of the hikers love for the Smokies, a sort of pledge of "hearts bustin' with love" as it were. There could be no more lasting expression of esteem than this startlingly beautiful point. People of Greenbrier card and spin their wool. They also knit woolen socks by hand. This section of old Smoky is the last stand of original conditions that existed during frontier days and the Park authorities wish to keep it so. Therefore, nothing could be more fitting than for the Hiking Club to be esconced here amid such surroundings far removed from the crash and clangor of civilization with its nerve-rasping torture, where the love of Nature at her best stands invitingly and waits quietly with intriguing interest. To dwell at Greenbrier is like living in a painting which Nature herself has wielded with many soft colors in a full or quiet palette, according to one's mood. When the clubhouse is done we'll have a house-warmin' that'll make the natives sit up and rub their eyes. If the chimney fire gets too hot, just move back a little and pass the cider and apples once again. And don't forget to say "Wahee! Wahoo!" at the door, without knocking! Leave Dixie System at 1 P. M. Saturday. Take food for three meals, blankets, and a water bucket. Round trip driving distance, 100 miles. Leaders: ROBERT LINDSAY MASON (2-7689) CHARLES BARBER (6-1562) 24
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