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Program of hikes for 1930/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • to the supreme court which even reversed itself after an old map of the state line surveyed in 1821 was discovered in the Nashville archives a hundred years after Meigs' time. An excellent view of Tuckaleechee Cove and of the hanging scenic blue background of the Smokies can be seen from the top of the Chilhowees above Walland. Two trails fork above the old Nebo Springs hotel where there is an excellent spring of iron water, one leads through a low gap which hikers must take if the going is icy; if not, the one to the northward may be followed and then a steep trail down the rocks will end the hike on the opposite side to the Miller's Cove road into Walland itself. Hot coffee is promised at the Powers cottage by eleven o'clock. From then on the hikers will be free to choose any route, by groups or singly, finally arriving at parked cars about three or four in the afternoon. Watch for Mr. Pileated Woodpecker and wife; there are plenty of them around the Chilhowees. Other winter birds may also be seen. Squirrels and a few wild turkeys or pheasants, may greet the visitors. Leave Saunders System at 9 o'clock. Round trip hiking distance about 6 miles. Trail steep but not rough. Bring food for one meal and a canteen. Cost of transportation about $1.25 each. Leaders: Robert Lindsay Mason (Phone 3—8773), and Dorothy Gagg (Phone 2—4135). January 17 WINTER GET-TOGETHER MEET (With literature program) Would you like to make cider, play games, hear snappy talks on good books, hear Ed Meeman talk? Yeah? Then come to Charley Barber's house on the night of January 17 at 7:30 o'clock. If you have never been there you don't know what you have missed. They will make you want to get married and keep house if you are single, and 12
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