Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-08-07
SUMMER RESORT RIVALRY
Nip and Tuck Between Vermont
and New Hampshire
Appalachian Mountain Club Backs the
whites. and Green Mountain Club
the Greens in Contest for
Popularity
(Allen Chamberlain in Boston TRANSCRIPT

Allen Chamberlain in Boston Transcript
1t is nip and tuck this summer be-
tween New Hampshire and Vermont to
see which can offer the greatest at
| fractions for the enticement Of the vaca-
ton trampers to their highlands regions,
In the White Mountains the Appala
Mountain Clubs officers have been
busy opening up and remaking old trails
blocked by winter blowdowns and by re-
cent logging operations, in repairing
camps and huts, and in new develop
ments. Amid the verdant hills to the
west of the Connecticut valley the Green
Mountain Club has been similarly
energetic, having already added several
new camps and a number of miles of
trail to their system. Both clubs have
lately taken TO Issuing special bulletins
giving information concerning their
latest undertakings in the mountains.
and the first of these for the present
season have now appeared. Judging
from the large number of parties and in
dividuals who are already in the hills.
and from the inquiries for information
thus far received by the two clubs, tour
Ing in the New England highlands
promises to be unusually popular this
workers in Vermont reports that up to
the end of the first week Of July he had
encountered more mixers on those trails
than during all Of last year. During a
recent cut across lots in the White
Mountains the writer met trampers daily.
men and their wives toting their camp
packs, party Of a dozen or more young
men following the round of the Great
Range and making nightly stops at the
Appalachian Club huts. and the top OF
pass on remote and little used route
he found a leading member of the State
street banking fraternity with a COM
panion leisurely lunching after having
fought their way for four hours through
n huge timber blowdown.
MORE MILES OF VERMONT SKYLINE
Four separate groups of the Green
Mountain Club have begun operations
for the betterment of and extension Of
their Skyline Trail and there is now
every reason to believe that by the end
of the season a continuous pathway will
be open from the vicinity of Rutland
north to the Lamoille valley. a distance
| of something like one hundred and forty
miles. Nearly eighty miles Of this, in a
continuous stretch, Is perfectly clear and
open to-day from Middebury Gap along
the summit ridges to Mount Mansfield
The fifteen miles north from Mansfield
over the Sterling group, should be cleared
during the season by the Johnson Section
| Of the club. and in all probability the
Middlebury section, working south from
Middlebury Gap and the Rutland section,
working north from Mount Carmel, will
put through the seventeen miles Of new
trail, across Mount Horrid. which will
link up with the thirty miles built last
year by the Rutland men in the Killing
| ton region.
Thus far this year the Middlebury
men. professors and students of Middle
bury College. have cut four miles on their
section of tran. and have built a way
side camp on the shore of Plead Lake.
Professor Monroe, president of the club s
New York section, has recently built two
new camps on the trails that he engineer
ed during the past three years. and pro-
poses TO erect two more before the sum-
| mer Is over. The programme of the
! Green Mountain Club calls for a long
! through north and south route along the
| ridges Of the main range that shall
| eventually reach from the ssachusetts
border to the Canadian boundary To
enable the man with a heavy camping
1
ing the beauties of the trail as he moves
along, the club proposes to establish its
log-built lodges at five or six-mile in
tervals. For those who prefer to travel
more lightly loaded. carrying only their
personal equipment, the daily stages may
| be longer. and the club is arranging for
| stopping places at farms situated in the
| gaps that cross the mountains every ten
| or fifteen miles or so. Several such
boarding places are now available, but
| some Of the bitches between such
| stations are unduly long, considering the
ups and downs of the trail, and as op-
portunity offers these reaches will doubt
| less be broken by the establishment of
huts on the Appalachian club plan.
ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL RANGE
For an ordinary fortnight's vacation
the seventy eight miles of trail from Mid
dlebury Gap to Mount Mansfield will
furnish ample scope for the powers OF
the camping tramper who is content 10
saunter along at the rate of from six to
nine miles day. For one who Is
, ambitious to scorch over the ground at a
faster clip, or who has another week to
spare, the killington section Of the trail
of about thirty miles may be added. The
latter may be entered upon at East
Clarendon on the Rutland railroad, from
| which point it is approximately twelve
miles. via Little Kilington, to Killington
Peak, with its iron shelter erected aast
year by the Rutland section of the club
There is also trail up Killington from
the east known as the Juggernaut
which is approached through West
Bridgewater and South Sherburne
From Killington the trail leads north
overd Pico Peak for some seven miles to
Sherburne Pass. through which motor
stages ply several times daily between
Rutland and Whitet River junction. Tc
reach Mount Carmel the trail runs NORTH
again from the pass for a dozen miles
but until the clubs trail builders finisf
their work of the present season Their,
will be no continuation northward. One
who ventures through on this line as fai
as Mount Carmel will then be under tn,
necessity of finding his own unblazed path
way for Ave or six miles along tn,
heights. or of retracing his course for
couple Of miles to the southwark, ant
descending by spur trail on the ives
to the village Of Chittenden. eight miles
from Pittsford on the Rutland railroad
: To pick up the thread of the mountain
Journey from the latter point It Is onl.
necessary to patronize the railroad TO
few miles to Middlebury, and the stag
thence to Bread Loaf in the gap TIL
) topography of the Killington section 4
shown on the Rutland sheet Of tn
: geological survey. but the location of tn
trail is not yet mapped there or else
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