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Program of hikes for 1930/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • The hike can be made easily in four hours, and the night will be passed in the cabin on top of the mountain. Although April days are warm and balmy, the nights are cool, and mountain climbers will welcome the great open fire in the cabin on Mt. LeConte. After a few hours amid the fragrance of the balsam boughs, the more ambitious members of the party will rise at dawn, and proceed to Myrtle Point to await the rising of the sun, and to marvel at the great expanse of mountains which a view from Mt. LeConte provides. Let us hope that the gods of the weather will favor us with a clear day. And now for the grand scramble—the tumbling, skidding, leaping, creeping, unending scramble down Roaring Fork Creek. If you don't like to imagine yourself stepping from mountain peak to peak on seven-league boots, you better return by way of Rainbow Falls. For this is a long, tiring, exciting, and altogether strenuous performance: this descent "down the rocky glen". And now ye who still would venture forth, find ye the icy little stream near the big cabin, and embark ye upon it! There's no trail down the gorge; you just GO down—shoot, hurtle, crawl, roll—whichever is your favorite form of getting to places. But pause once in a while and look back, and you will be a hit breathless to see how precipitous has been the descent. It's a stunning sight back up there, and it has certainly been worth the scramble. At one point in the lower part of the descent, you pass the great jagged rock wall where Brockway Crouch fell fifty feet last spring. Soon after we have passed the last of the many beautiful waterfalls, we will notice a rather open space to the left of the stream bed, where a trail will soon be found. We follow this even when it crosses the stream to the righthand bank. Bej fore long, we notice that a trail, coming almost from behind us, has joined the one we are following; this is the trail from Brushy Mountain. Again we cross the stream, leave it for the last time, and strike over through the woods to the left t<| 24
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