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Program of hikes for 1930/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • November 2 RED TOP (From Gatlinburg) This is a new trip to many club members—a trip to nearby places which we have been passing by in our journeyings to the far away heights. There are many lovely all day trips we have overlooked in a very natural desire to climb well-known mountain peaks. But having climbed the heights, there is a certain joy in exploring some of the byways, which we promise ourselves we'll see some day. Such is the trip to Red Top. To reach it, one motors to Gatlinburg and parks the car at the Mountain View Hotel. Though one could drive another mile over the Gatlinburg— Greenbrier road, there are reasons why it is advisable to leave the car at the hotel. For one leaves the Greenbrier Road turning abruptly to the left, but instead of going up over the Big Ridge, one turns right at the first forks and then right again at the school house. In this section there is a maze of roads, up one stream and down another, up one ridge and around another, each one worth exploring. On this trip we follow the mountain road taken by the rural mail carrier on his return trip from Emert's Cove, through mountain byways unknown to many. The road, easily traversed by horse or afoot but not recommended for automobiles, winds up the mountain and around the other side. At one spot there is one of the loveliest views of Mt. LeConte and Round Top it has been my good fortune to find,—as lovely as the one from Tom Campbell's cabin, though quite different. LeConte seems so near with only a valley between. Up to the very top of Red Top (so-called locally from the deep redness of the soil) then down the other side. Soon we come to where the road forks again. Either road will bring us eventually back to the Gatlinburg-Greenbrier "pike". We can take the long or short way across, either Will afford us beautiful views of the Smoky range from Guyot to LeConte. Reaching the "pike" we 61
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