The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-05-10
GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB
Sixth. Annual Meeting at Brandon
!. Friday May 19

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III s., nnual meeting of the ne
be held at the Nd,s.. Inn on Friday,
May 10, with the , y section of
the club.
There will be meeting Of the coun-
Gil at o'clock in the forenoon, the gen.
eral business meeting comes at IL and
will be continued at the afternoon ses-
sion. Several proposed amendments
to the constitution are to be acted up
OH.
Notification of attendance should be
made to E. S. Marsh, president OF the
Brandon section.
With the notices announcing the ann
ual meeting the following circular let
ter describing the work of the club
during the year was inclosed
The Johnson section, which has done
such splendid work in building trail
over Sterling mountain, continued
their good work toward Sterling Pond,
Much trail over Sterling mountain was
destroyed by numbering operations, and
in the summer of 1915 Mr.. f. w. Mould
Of Morrisville spent one day in about
every two weeks personally working
with an axe on Sterling mountain
trails, and also put up many arrows
of his own manufacture, for which the
special thanks of the club are due him.
Barnes Camp in Smugglers Notch,
beloved by every hiker who was ever
welcomed there by its former genial
host, Willis NJ. Barnes (now engaged in
numbering operations few miles dis
tanD was managed very successfully
from July l3 to September 21st by
three students from the University of
Vermont, RodeTick NJ. Ol2endam, Per-
cy II. Slayton, Leroy NJ. Anderson, who
furnished meals, lodging, and guides
at reasonable rates. Their cooking,
courtesy and especially their imma-
culate housekeeping were praised
without stint by all housewives and
Prospective housewives who we're so
fortunate as to be entertained by them.
1t is expected that this camp will be
conducted by university students this
coming summer
The Camels Hump club of Water
bury kept their building near the sum-
NIT of the Hump open from July un-
til the middle of November. Louis A.
Babcock. an experienced traveller, was
in charge and rendered himself most
agreeable to the guests. About one
mile of the new trail from Callahan's
to the summit was relocated on higher
and dryer ground. The State forestry
,i2ps -tment built new trail up tho
Hump from Jonesville, via Honey Hol-
low and the slide on the west side of
the mountain intersecting the Hunt
ington trail ga mile west Of the sum-.
mi:
Many parties visited the Hump dur
ing the summer and on February %
a party of seven women and seven
men from Burlington made the ascent
on snowshoes from North DuXbury.
Other smaller snowshoe parties also
made the ascent.
The Bennington section have the
Long Trail completed from the Massa-
chusetts line to the summit of STRAIT
ton Mountain, distance of SO miles
from the Massachusetts line, and by
July 1st will have the trail extended
miles further north to Prospect Rock,
about two miles east of Manchester.
The state forestry department have
built very comfortable shelter camp
short distance below the summit of
Stratton mountain. The Stratton
| mountain club and the state forestry
department erected steel observa.
tion tower in 1914 on the summit of
Stratton mountain.
Prof. Will S. Monroe OF the State
| Normal school at Montclair, n. j., a
very extensive traveller and the auth
or Of several books, was teacher at
the summer school at the University of
Vermont in the summer Of 1915, and
made many week end excursions into
| the Green mountains. During the
holidays he joined large party of the
Appalachian club people from New
York and Boston who spent several
days snowshoeing, skiing and skating
and coasting at Manchester, and Sc
cured ten of their members as mem
bers of our club This summer he
plans to come to Vermont June 20tl
and spend two weeks before the Uni
versity Summer school opens in cut
ting new trail for the club in company
with three other club members him
self furnishing the tent and equipmen
needed.