News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-08-02

The New York section is consider
ing plan to take over the Cancels
Hump Club huts on that mountain, to
establish keeper, and to rename the
camp for Professor Monroe; also
probably, to take over the four miles
from the summit to the Winooski
crossing at Bolton. The general
organization will provide boat bet
ter than the cranky craft in which
mixers have hitherto commended
themselves to the raging waters of
this stream for the Winooski ferry,
the plan for a foot bridge here hav-
ing been deferred for a time.
Another Improvement by the New
York section on the Monroe Skyline
section will be the raising of the
Emily Proctor lodge in Breadloaf
Glen by another story to meet the
demands upon this popular and beau
tifully located camp.
New Shelter on Whiteface
The editor of the outing page went
over the Long Trail from johnson to
Bristol last fall with President
| Cooper and Charles A. Wood of New
York, who unfortunately suffered a
serious accident in an automobile
not IN hlking-on his way off the trail
near Brandon; Walter Mueller, one
of the trustees of the New York sec
ton, and Fred w. Mould of Morris
vile, granite dealer, who, with his
sons and neighbors, made and main
tains the section over Whiteface and
Madonna Mountain, in the Sterling
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Sterling Pond to Smugglers' Notch,
and who keeps up Mould's Camp Che
calls it Shattuck LODGE, snug old
logging camp in the Beaver Meadow,
east of Madonna. He built another
shelter this spring, at a waterhole
on the trail south of Whiteface
It's wonderful how the members of
the Green Mountain Club, Vermonters
or others, spend their time and money
in doing things to improve the trail.
Mould had to carry roofing sheets a
mile up the mountain for his new
shelter. Then there's Ralph Duns-
moor of the Burlington section, who,
with his friends, dragged to the sum-
nit of Bolton Mountain the materials
for steel observation tower, 40 feet
tall, which raises one above the trees
and gives wide view And Presi-
dent Cooper, with his son and
friends, cleared out and put wire
hand-holds in the Deer's Leap Caves,
on the trail near Rutland during the
winter-just for the fun of it.
The members of the Lake Pleiad
section, under the direction of Prof.
P. C. Voter of Middlebury College,
cleared out it's section on the trail
from Middlebury Gap to Brandon Gap
early in May, in advance of the patrol
date set by Secretary Taylor. They
also built new lodge this spring at
Sucker Brook.
One could give a month to the Long
Trail to do it properly, but for most |
persons who would plan a week or so
on it, the best part, in the opinion of |
members of the New York section,
is their section: the Monroe Skyline |
Trail, from Middlebury Gap to
Cancels Hump, exceptionally well
marked with white painted blazes
and frequent signs, and the Burling-
ton section: over Bolton Mountain, |
Mount Mansfield and the Sterling |
Range. If anybody wants to scout .
further towards Canada, and blaze !
the extension, Jim Taylor would prob ,
ably be glad to hear of their plans
and advise them; and Jay Peak, say
those who know it, is mighty well
worth the climb.
For those who like real climbing,
the writer suggests the course he
followed last September, from John
son, south. For the first day, after
reaching Burlington by night sleeper,
and Johnson by Aocal train, then
climbing Whiteface, l would suggest
taking the first day easy and drop
ping down into Fred Mould's camp
for the night, or staying in his new
shelter on the south slope of White
face. Next day, one could go over
Madonna, down to Smugglers' Notch,
and climb to the enclosed Taft lodge,
on Mansfield, either by the we'll
named He'll Brook Trail, made with
fiendish ingenuity by Capt. H. w.
Congdon of New York and C. w.
Cowles of Burlington, or by the
easier Taft Trail from Barnes camp,
on the new state highway through
the Smugglers' Notch.
Don't Spill Your Beans
Here is a bit of trail etiquette for
the newcomer. Don't spill beans, in
the hunks in Taft Lodge, if Mr..
the fire warden, who, was
there last year, is again in charge of
it. We blew in on a rainy evening,
wet and hungry and tired, after
climbing the He'll Brook Trail, and
we remarked a little coldness in our
by Mr.. Holmes. He told us
we mustn't take our packs into the
hunks.
"Feller here from Virginia yis-
tiddy," said he, kicked because
somebody in the hunks afore him
spilled beans in the browse. He was
so sore he wouldn't sleep inside and
ne went out and slept outdoors"
After his statement of his griev-
aOpaC about fA;e