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Program of hikes for 1930/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • PREFACE rHIS booklet is published as a year-book for members of the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club. Reminder cards will he mailed to members a lew days before each hike, but this is the only detailed information that ivill be furnished. It should, therefore, be preserved for future reference. Several hundred copies will be sent to hikers, mountaineers and Mature-lovers throughout America, in the hope that they may get some idea of the treasure land that awails them in the Great Smoky Mountains. In addition to the information relative to our scheduled hikes, it is the desire of officers of the club that this booklet 'will convey Ihc suggestion thai there is something more to hiking than mere physical exertion. One can hardly hike without getting a glimpse of some of the finer things that Ihc highlands may convey. Let us adopt as our own the following thoughts so appropriately expressed by Charles Coleman Stoddard in his delightful book "Shank's Mare": "True recreation docs not conic from straining our muscles and endurance to Ihc limit, but from the co-ordinate stimulus to body, eye and mind of moderate exercise, intelligent observation and wholesome thoughts. "If I must plod swiftly on, looking neither to the right nor the left, if I am forbidden to loiter by the zvay over something beautiful or interesting, for the mere reason of arriving somewhere, of covering a stated distance in a given time, I am forfeiting in large part the very object I came to seek."
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