Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-07-04
MUCH GOING ON
IN OUR MOUNTAINS
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Alumni members of the Alpha Alpha
most promising development OF the
mountain region as a tourist attraction,
A Bear And Cubs
\ During last week Professors Voter,
Hamlin, and Davis, and Charles ].
Lyon, instructor in chemistry at the
college, and Maurice Lee and Stewart
Douglas, students at the college, and
Harry Warner, local carpenter, began
the work of continuing the Long Trail
from the Lincoln-W Warren pass near
Bread Loaf south to Brandon gap,
which distance of about dozen miles
is the only missing link in the chain OF
skyline paths all the way from Camels
Hump to Mt. Killington. This party
blazed four miles of new trail last week
and Prof. Raymond H. White, who is
here for the Summer Session. hopes to
lead a band in completion of the other
eight miles this summer. At present
the trail has been blazed to the top
of Worth Mountain, pathway three
feet wide with trees blazed and painted
white at intervals OF fifty feet. At
one point a clearing was cut, atfordng
a fine lookout over Lake Plead and a
view of the so-called Braintree range,
and glimpse of bend in the White
river. Harry Warner, already mention
ed as one of the trail party, vouches for
the fact that at one point in the trail
building last week he caught sight OF
a black bear and her two cubs.
This, however, need not brighten away
any prospective tourists. Harry War
ner may unwittingly be a hneal des-
cendant of Baron Munchausen. In any
case the editor of The Register can tes-
tify that in an ll-day tramp-and some
of the night through the wilds OF Mt
Mansfield and Smuggler's Notch last
Sunday the fiercest animal encountered
was that familiar aboreal lodent-the
porcupine. So far as wild animals are
concerned the Long Trail is as safe
route to travel as the Lackawanna rail-
road, and when Mr. Dean, Professor
Munroe and other landscape architects
complete their dreams the scenic path
way should be quite as easy to negoti-
ate as the board walk at Atlantic City.
For the present one cannot do" the
trail in wheel chair, but anyone gifted
with a sound set Of limbs and sense
enough to follow their nose, can cover
ten or twelve miles Of any fair section
of the route in a day, and in the not
distant future the cabins at tive-mie
intervals will afford shelter and cooking
conveniences for every meal.
In the Mansfield Section
A considerable improvement to one
section was made last Sunday when
Mr.. Dean, with The Register as a mem
Der of the party of FIVE, re-blazed the
old trail from the Lake Mansfield
Trout Club to the nose of Mt. Mans
field-height 407S feet. For over SIX
miles the underbrush and ingrowing
branches OF the old trail were cut away,
fallen trees removed and the pathway
marked by such an eXtravagant use
of white paint on rock and tree that
five quarts of paint were exhausted
before the summit was reached. o
one unfamiliar with this trail 1t is sur
prising to find how well the wilderness
has been posted with Prof. Munroe S
little white arrows. making directions
quite as clear as in city streets.
There is not all OF the exclusion one
might expect in the mountain vastness.
Some three miles deep in the woods the
party was startled to hear woman's
voice. and suddenly Mr.. and Mrs.
Whipple-he a New York mining engl,
neer-strolled into view and exchanged
greetings with the trail builders.
The nose of Mt. Mansfield was reach
ed at seven in the evening after labor
ing in the woods since six in the
morning. Mountain work or mountain
climbing is its own reward. All the way
there are the fragrant odors OF the
woods, the cooling draughts from the
mountain stream (best enjoyed horizon
tally, the delight of discovery OF bird
song, new fern or flower, or possibly
an old friend among them-and then
the final enchantment Of as magnificent
a view as God provides anywhere OF his
heavenly expanse and earthly pastures