Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1919-05-30
OUR MOUNTAINS
ARE GREAT ASSET
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Notwithstanding many natural OBJ
stacles such as fallen trees, almost I'M
scaleable lodges, and wet places, the
Professor has made not only an easily
Travelled trail but one constructed with
especial success in the matter of views
In this work he went to large amount
OF personal expense and even the first
twelve miles of the trail which he built
in 1916 cost him over $500. That fall
he organized branch of the club in
New York City which now has PIP
members and it has adopted and as
sumed the maintenance of his trail 1t
was only last summer that he succeed
ed in extending the trail south from the
Lincoln Warren pass over Bread Loaf
mountain to Middlebury Gap and it
IS from here that he planned to extend
the pathway to the Brandon gap the
coming summer but will gladly turn
the building of this II miles of trail
over to Prof. Voter and helpers if they
will get it done this summer
Mr.. Deans pictures showed a num-
Der of the cabins and camp sites that
have thus far been established along
the trail Among them are the we'll
known Battell Lodge, near Lincoln
Pass, and Ellen Lodge which Mr.. Bat
tell built on the west side of Mount
Ellen. AT other points are attractive
lodges particularly at Birch Glen. A
Lake Plead, near Bread Loaf one of
the highest bodies of water in the State.
PROFESSORS Davis, White, and Voter,
OF Mlddlebury, are at present erecting
a shelter Tor mountain mixers, and it is
hoped to extend this sort of work to
other good camp sites this summer.
Mr.. Dean is such an enthusiast for
getting Others to share the admiration
OF the mountains that he gladly under
takes to send any prospective mountain
party detailed plans for almost anv sort
OF hike they propose to take along the
trail. over the Monroe Skyline sec
tona and north to Bolton large scale
maps have been drawn by Captain
Herbert Wheaton Congton, of IS
Broadway, N. Y, and these are avail.
able to the mountain climbers at $50
for the set of five large maps which
cover IS miles of trail in great de-
tail showing approaches to the trail.
cabins and farmhouses where mixers
could stop over night, etc.
In the way of advice to mountain
climbers, Mr.. Dean showed pictures Of
girls properly CARRIED for hiking, in
Khaki breeches, and declared that skirts
were an absurdity in the mountains.
High heeled shoes and thin hosierv.-
'hrst cousins to Cobwebs' also
barred and wooden socks and wooden
were the only safe and
undergarments Careful
provision should be made for blankets.
and he told stories of some adj
ventures which made it plain that the
amateur mountain climber should get
thorough instructions from veteran
before attempting to cover any consid-
cradle distance, as they might find
themselves for long stretches without
access to water or a camp site.
Many phases Of the possible develop
ment OF our mountains as tourist attrac-
tions were suggested by Mr.. Dean,
who believed that it might some time
be feasible to make Bread Loaf Inn
mecca OF mountain tourists, and pos
sibly provide there burros or don
keys by which the trails could be
He recalled also that Mid
dlebury had done practically nothing
toward the development of winter
sports as compared with Dartmouth at
Hanover, N. H., and that with more
interest here it might be possible
attract the Dartmouth Outing Club and
hose of other institutions to Bread
Loaf Mountain for a great winter car
lival. There was no place anywhere
more fitted for such an event. Mr.. Dean
himself had only learned the joys of
'nowshoeing a few years ago and even
or middle-aged man, he declared,
here was no more delightful and pro-
liable sport. He exhibited winter pic
ures in the mountains whose beauty
vas vastly greater even than in sum
ner.