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Program of hikes for 1930/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • 'Tis the best of humanity that goes out to walk." —Emerson January 12 CHILHOWEE MOUNTAIN, via MT. NEBO There is a zest and verve about winter hiking that summer time jaunts cannot give. Snow, frost and ice offer something for the indomitable hiker to overcome without the inconveniences of overheating and customary humidity characteristic of mountain altitudes during summer months. Of course one should anticipate chilling after a warm climb and provide for exposure to sudden changes when reaching the top, but usually this can be avoided from experience. This hike starts at 9 o'clock Sunday morning from the Saunders System for it requires only one hour's time to Dr. Powers' cottage on the Mt. Nebo Springs road half way up the Chilhowees, below the Walland Gap. Park at Peary's Mill or Gamble's near the concrete bridge opposite Melrose station, one mile and a half north of Walland gap. The roads are not passable on the opposite side of Little River at Melrose leading to Rocky Branch Road except in dry weather. By leaving cars here also hikers can reach them more conveniently after the return over the top to Miller's Cove road or the tannery. The Chilhowees were called the "Enemy Mountains" in colonial times by the Cherokees because no enemy however hostile was allowed, by treaty, to traverse these hills or to cross the Little Tennessee. Along this range from Kingston also was run the famous Meigs' Indian Boundary line in 1797 up to the 32nd mile where it projected to the Smoky Mountain watershed at 76° east of the magnetic meridian. Meigs placed his angle of divergence by mistake after being lost around Blanket Mountain and thereby .iiwtiffstted the famous Meigs' Post dispute which was fought through 11
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