Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-10

popular resort for trampers. 1t lies
on a shortcut between upper Jackson
and the Glen, it is the key to the Car
ter range and 1t possesses two fine lit
the tarns which are attractive to fish
ermen.
This book contains a great many in.l
teresting stories of tramps which
would be of interest to the initiated,
since they give many diverse routes
and disclose figures showing the time
required from point to point. One
story seems worth setting forth in,
brief, for it represents a rather am
bilious tramp. A party of four from
New York and Brooklyn, teacher,
lawyer, accountant and lawyer, respee-
lively" began the walking at Wells
River The first day was across the
country through Benton and Wild
wood, sixteen and one-half miles. The
second day the party went up Moosi-
lauke-presumably by the Benton trail
warmed themselves in the summit
house, went down the Beaver Brook
path and to North Woodstock do
ing Lost River on the way. The
next day was from the camp in
North Woodstock UP to camp
near the Flun1e. and the follow
ing day up the mountain path to Lib
erty, thence along the ridge to Lafay-
cite and back to the F1ume camp
gain. The next morning the party
caught the train at Lincoln, rode up
the East Branch to Carrigan Notch
whence the walk was to Sawyer's Riv-
er. and thence by rail to Jackson. the
group then tramped to the Carter.
Notch camp, and after nights rest
went on to Hermit Lake shelter, and
the following day to the summit of
Mount Washington and back to the
lake, taking the direct path one way
and the Boot Spur trail the other. Next
day the packs We're taken to the sum-
init, and by the Gulfside trail the
trampers reached the Madison Club
hut, camping near it, and for the next
day they skipped down the Valley way
to Appalachia, caught the train to Cor
ham and slept that night at Imp Camp
on the Carter Range, whence the Car
ter Notch camp was easily gained the
following day Here the record ends,
but it is an interesting one and one
that is full of suggestion to those who
can go on the trail fitted to be COM
Portable wherever night may happen TO
overtake Them
The records as a whole are fairly
legiple Occasionally the pencil has
been missing and the autographs were
inscribed with a burnt stick. 1t Is
hardly necessary to say that the sto-
| ries are always brief. An impromptu
society, the Aver White Mountain Club
once so described itself
The register has lasted since August,
1910, the first month III names We're
recorded and three of the parties said:
MANY thanks to the Apalaehian
Mountain Club for the shelter One
or two wrote grumblingly. complain
ing of the distance to the woodpile, or
the fact that the chimney was an in
veterate smoker. The little hut mas
long seasons. That of 1910 closed on
Oct. 20, and the initial visit of the new
year was on May 6, when two Usher
men co,ild not resist hyperbolic mem
ton of their luck. The merry month
brought other fishermen. and the sue
ceeding months their greater numbers,
| The final party for 1el1 registered on
Dec. a. when the thermometer stood
at g. Just at the point where the nut
is located that temperature Is low
| enough for comfort for here Is the To-
Gus of all the winds of heaven. but The
| Motntaineer has been comfortable in
| the old camp which cuddled up against
| the edges of wildcat, with the mer-
curry playing about the zero point.
The camp was idle not quite two
months. for on Feb. Z, six snowshoers
came in accompanied by Gill" dog
Thermometer 20 degrees. weather hne.
and the tramp up Nineteen Mile BROOK
was delightful, though hard. Again.
inst a fortnight later, a second party
three in number, visited the camp, ano'
on Feb Is, an Appalachian company
from jackson, fourteen strong. In the
| list of names is that OF A. Lawrence
| Rotch. put down on one of the last
If the tramps of this active alpinist
and leader of meteoroligists. The reg
utar season began May u, and there
were visitors every month till Nov. "a.
Then in February of the present year
a party of Appalachians forty strong
walked up from Jack Daviss ana OF
| this company fifteen ascended 10 the
| top of Carter Dome,
The Columbus Day tramp of the
/ Eiald and Forest Club was enlivened
/ a.
| ~ the weather and the delightful
views. A huge RATHER coiied himself
| and ratified, and was the FOCUSING
noint of half a dozen cameras. There
are hut few who realize the quality Oh
the. cross-country walking in the Blue
Hill Reservation. Rattlesnake, wnich
can be gained with only a few dozen
Yards of real road walking, is the MI
that gives the most in point OF view
lar the labor of ascending 1t. inc
Ianascape is land and water in fairy
equal proportions and the contrasts
on the opposite sides of the horizon
are most marked. There is rock
glide of 100 feet and more In vertical
heipht that is fair sample OF the
| write Mountain work, while above the
rambler at it's foot the castles OF rat
tle- snake tower in real majesty. Rat.ie
Rock is a little Chocorua, ana the de-
scent of it's almost vertical side IS
scramble that suggests the SIX rus
bards of Huntington Ravine. IneI
there are the scarps of Sassamol
l Ier, Of aY6Ro0lnt