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Trip into the Smokies with Horace Kephart

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  • -Aj2.<,.,.^ ' ^M A TRIP OUT INTO THE SMOKIES WITH HORACE KEPHART Hazel Creek The Hall Cabin Slier Meadows One July, about 1913 or 1914, Mr. Kephart took a small narty of us out into the Hazel Creek country and on to the Hall Cabin and Siler Meadows (Siler's Bald) on the Smoky divide. There were five of us including Mr. Kephart - two women and three men. Mr. Kephart said that it was only the second time that he had ever taken any ladies on a hiking and camping trip. Mrs. Buquo, a friend of mine from Hot Springs, was with us; also Jack Coburn from Bryson City and J. B. Anderson from Massachusetts. We started out from Bryson early one fine morning on the Murphy train, getting off where Hazel Creek flowed into the Little Tennessee River. At that time the Ritter Lumber Company had a camp there. Then we went up to Proctor, a few miles up Hazel Cregk, on Ritter's logging train - a rough ride but it was fun. At Proctor we started our hike up Hazel Creek to. Jack Cobnrn's house, a. distance of about ten miles. Hazel Creek is one of the most beautiful mountain streams that I Have ever seen. It is clear as crystal and larger than Deep Creek; it has fine trout fishing, but we were not fishing on that trip. We stopped that first night at Jack Coburn's house, a delightful spot in the Smokies where the Bone Valley runs into Hazel Creek. We had crossed Hazel Creek and several small branches on old shaky foot-logs. It was some time after dark when we reached Jack's house, and we had only a flashlight to show the way. We saw several old
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