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'vermont's Long Trail
All Outdoors Calls 1t Enjoyable
Walking Trip.


Walking Trip.
The following appears in the Janu-
airy number of All Outdoors:
A skyline trail from Massachusetts
| to Canada is the unique project of
| the Green Mountain club. The Green
Mountain range extends throughout
the entire length of Vermont, dividing
| the state into an eastern Vermont
and western Vermont, and making
a pedestrians paradise. If there is
any walking trip that is more enjoy
able than following the winding val
| leys which lead from the Connecticut
river to the main range and then
| "over the mountain to the New York
| border, it is tramping the Long
Trail" on the heights of the Green
| Mountains and enjoying commanding
views of the White Mountains and
| the Adirondaeks.
| The Green Mountain club was or
| gani2ed in 1910 to create this evident
| ly predestined trail along the heights
| of the Green Mountains. The mem
| bers are grouped in sections or chap
tiers, each of which has in charge
| special region with its problems OF
| making trails, erecting shelters, and
extending fraternal hospitality to the
| increasing number of mountain low
ers who are discovering the Green
| mountains. The trail has been made
from the Massachusetts line to STRAIT.
ton mountain, and from Killington
peak to the village of Johnson in the
| valley of the Lamoille river.
when the Long Trail is cOmplet
ed, it Will be nearly $50 miles in ex-
tent winding in and out at its climbs
| peak after peak of the Green noun
tain range, as it decends into passes
and notches which form the most
beautiful and most characteristic fea-
lures of Vermont scenery
Readily approached on foot or by
automobile from stations of the
railroads in the Connecticut and
Champlain valleys, the Long Trail"
offers during the same or successive
seasons opportunities for a series of
little journeys each with a distinc
tive interest and charm. For each
region has some master mountain
with a personality of its own; STRAIT
ton mountain with echoes of Daniel
Webster's eloquence from back in the
forties. Killington with lofty spire-
like peak; Mount Horrid with fantas-
tic with trinity of summits; the
Lion, which resembles lion camel
sphinx, as You viii; Mount Mansfield
with ponderous granite face eiernally
staring at the sky.
There are increasing facilities
along are route for the accommoda-
ton of those who walk "rhe Long
| Trail" The Bennington section Of
the Green Mountain club has recently
built a camp in Hell Hollow Deer's
Leap tea house, on the northern slope
OF Killington, this coming season will
Furnish meals, as well as tent accom-
eodations for all who desire TO stay
| over night
| Several open camps have been built
by the Vermont forestry service and
the Green Mountain club along the
trail north of killington. There Is a
4 camp On the summit Of the Lion, a
4 hotel on Mount Mansfield. a y club
house in Nebraska notch. During this
last season two college men enter
tanned parties of autoists and tramp
ers at lumber camp in Smugglers
notch, ''parlor car lumber camp"
long noted for its neatness and clean
ness. and good food
The Green mountains are becoming
more and more popular with the
Green mountain boys and with those
who are so unfortunate as not to have
} been born in the Green Mountain
state. The Long Trail has been
| used for practice marches by parties
from the Vermont National Guard.
The Appalachian club within the last
few years has brought several excur-
sions into tile Green mountain The
u Dartmouth Outing club makes an an
nual winter trip on skis and snow
shoes in the Mansfeld-Lion noun
tains accessible and enjoyable in Jan
uary as well as in June. Now, as
never before, Vermonters are at
, home in their mountains, and are Gag
err to greet there all lovers of the
out-of-doors.