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Program of hikes for 1930/ Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

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  • WEATHER Our more experienced hikers have learned long ago that weather has very little, or no bearing upon the enjoyment one is to get from a hike. Of course, a hiker will endeavor to dress in keeping with the temperature. But rain—well, some of our most enjoyable hikes have been in the rain. Charles Coleman Stoddard, in his delightful book, "SHANK'S MARE", has expressed it very effectively: "Surely, one has not seen nature until he has tramped in rain and snow; until he has greeted her in her wildest moods—and walked with the thunder upon the mountain tops." Further discussing the question of weather, Mr. Stoddard said: "No man really has triumphed in life until he has risen superior to the weather. As his spiritual nature must be strengthened by struggle and defeat, so he must harden his physical self against these mere externals." Your attention is also called to that vibrant poem which is re-printed on the back cover page. Let's make these good hikes—and let Jo-Jo worry about the weather. "Walking not only adds to our store of memories, to our wealth in acquaintances and friends; it broadens our whole horizon of observation and experience, and our whole perspective and estimate of life. If it docs not make philosophers of us, it at least makes us philosophical. It clears the mind of pettiness and conceit, as it cleanses the body and builds and restores the tissues. It leads us open-minded into contact with people and places and opens our hearts and sympathies to the secrets of Nature's most intimate handiwork. Rarely shall -,vc return from a walk without bringing, as the bee from the flower-spread fields of June, something to add to the honied store; and when winter comes and night overtakes us, when cares oppress and times are contrary, often shall we draiu upon the golden hoard for surcease and sustenance." —Charles Coleman Stoddard 77
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