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Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 4

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Item 1 - Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 1
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Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 1

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Item 2 - Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 2
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Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 2

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Item 3 - Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 3
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Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 3

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Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 4

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Item 5 - Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 5
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Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 5

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Item 6 - Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 6
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Myron H. Avery letter, May 17, 1932, page 6

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  • should be assured by heavy white paint ttattt ($** x 2") end by paint on rocks ia <s-pm fields. Parallel markers are useless and ia fact misleading, fhere should he some symbol at intervals of no more than l/4 a. en even Forest Service trails,) fhe data should fee broken into short sections, determined by their accessibility {probably highways), this increases their usefulness and facilitate* erasl! changes without throwing oat a long section, laeh section starts st sero. Any offset on I highway goes with the preceding section so that the ser© point of a mm section is the intersection of the Bead ant %all» Each section should be summarised as to kind of travel, nature of trail - steep or moderate-, outstanding features in a. short paragraph at the beginning. Means of access should be exhaustively treated, giving the hi#»ay route numbers, distances from towns, railroads, etc. Explanatory matter is best included ia a parenthesis, issh section should state the topographic maps which apply to it, Haps form • real problem, *e met it by trscing the trail on topographic sheets and asking the cuts direct from the topographic sheet. For » through trail this is expensive. I believe the best scheme to have one general outline map of the scope of the book sad a cut made from a sketch nap ©f each section. ^his- would be only a moderate cost. ¥adoubtedly all map work should be under the direction of one map editor. I believe the cost of this velum* should be under #4,00 per volume, fhere will be few :,out*: to increase its cost. Undoubtedly each elub will agree te underwrite a suiticieat sal® to safeguard the project. In seeking a printer, I suggest you obtain a bid from the Shenandoah Publishing House ..at Strasburg, fa*, which published ©w? book mt lew cost. I have been at great detail in letters of Quidaeoek teehalfa*, thinking that the lessons we learned might lighten someone else's burden. Wf second sa^ca* suggestion is more activity ia eaen Club program to make me individual Members Appalachian frail conscious, this can best be accomplished by a series of Olub hikes over the marked Appalachian Trail, falling within the Clttb's section. Another expedient is to schedule - as a part of the Club program- work trips on the Appalachian frail. Formerly our trail work tttf done by limited parties, this fmv *• scheduled Club work trips. *hey were an astonishing success? members preferred them to hikes, fit* party was broken into Mall groups under competent leaders. On one occasion SO people cleared,
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Horace Kephart

Background and Early Career Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania, but spent much of his youth in Iowa. He went on to achieve success in two careers. Trained as a...

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