Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-03-18
GREEN MT. CLUB
IN ANNUAL MEETING
P. c. Voter of MiddIebury Elected
to Committee

The annual meeting of the trustees
Of the Green Mountain Club, Inc, was
held in Rutland, at Curtis camp on
Spring Lake Shrewsbury Pond Satur-
day afternoon and evening c. P.
Cooper of Rutland was elected presi-
dent DR. L. l. Paris Of Burlington,
vice-president; James p. Taylor OF
Burlington, corresponding secretary;
and Z. S. Marsh of Brandon, treasurer.
Chairmen and members of committees
were elected as follows: 1921 Guide
Book. c. P. Cooper, DR.. L. J. Paris
and Capt. H. W Congdon; trails and
shelters, Willis M. Ross, c. P. Cooper
and P c. Voter; membership, DR.. l.
] Paris, G. f Chalmers and T. S.
Dean; publicity, J P Taylor, Will S.
Monroe and ]. L. Griswold; nomen-
clature, + S. Marsh, Will S. Monroe,
G.. A Mathers and DR.. L. J. Paris.
c. P Cooper, as retiring chairman of
the trails and shelters committee, re-
ported that early last summer the
connecting link OF 80 miles from
White Rocks south to Prospect Rock,
east of Manchester, was completed,
making 209 consecutive miles of the
Long Trail from the Massachusetts
line north to Johnson open for use in
l920-the clubs eleventh year OF this
trail the 50 miles from the Massachu-
setts line to Prospect Rock has been
marked by the Bennington section with
red disks, the other l57 miles being
marked by blazes painted white. The
work of the sections of the club had
been as follows Burlington, trail clear
ed and the Elihu B. Taft Lodge ac-
commodating 30 people, erected east
of Chin on Mt. Mansfield and several
new trails cut for convenience in reach
ing this lodge; New York, cleared the
43 miles of the Monroe Skyline, re-
painted the blazes, erected a shelter
house with stove at Cowle's Cove, en-
larged and placed a stove and pole
hunks in Birch Glen Lodge, and re-
rooted Cooley Glen Lodge, the former
tarred paper roof having been eaten off
by porcupines; Lake Placid section
extended and surveyed their trail
south of Middlebury Gap; the new
Proctor section repainted blazes and |
cleared the trail from Brandon Pass
south to Killington Peak; Rutland,
cleared trail and repainted blazes from
Killington to the "Aldrich Job" south
of White Rocks. Bennington reported |
clearing and remarking trail
Fred W. Mould of Morrisville, did
the necessary trail clearing and paint
ing of blazes from Sterling Pond to
Whiteface on Sterling Mountain, ].
H. Eaton of Sharon, Mass, mapped the
IL miles of trail from Johnson to
Barnes Camp. Capt H. w. Congdon re-
ported clearing and remarking trails,
(also its approaches from Smugglers
Notch to Bolton. These new maps will
appear in the 1921 edition of the clubs
guide book.
The trail committee was authorized
to build three shelter houses in 1921;
appropriations were made for new
guide book, trail work AMI large signs
to be placed where the Long Trail
crosses highways.
The trustees in attendance at the
meeting took the train from Rutland
to East Clarendon and then followed
the Long Trail past the beautiful Clar-
endon Gorge two and A half miles to
Curtis Camp where they were much
refreshed by the skillful cookery of
Messrs. Ross and Cooper. The night
was spent at the lodge and Sunday
they followed the Long Trail
south miles to Wellington Gulf Road
where friends were in waiting with au
-os and took them to the attractive
and well managed WaLlingford Inn
where an excellent dinner was served.