News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-08-02
Plan to Extend
Long Trail Over
Quebec Border
Green Mountain Club Would
Complete Path to Line
Over Jay Peak
Many improvements This Season to
210-Mile Hikers' Route in
Vermont
published by Special Permission and
Through the Courtesy of the
New York Evening Post)
By Raymond H. Torrey

By Raymond H. Torrey
Plans are now being made to carry
out a long-cherished project of the
members of the Green Mountain
Club to complete the famous Long
Trail, built by them in the last dozen
years over the mountains of Vermont,
! to the Canadian border. This will in
volve the building of about 80 miles
OF paths from the present northern
terminus of the Long Trail at John
son, over Belvidere Mountain and
Jay Peak to the Quebec boundary at
Sutton, east of Richford.
In view of the interest in Canada
at this time, by some persons devoted
to other than geographical considera-
tons, some Vermonters have jocularly
proposed a bootleggers' chapter of
the Green Mountain Club, to build
and maintain this extension, on the
theory that it would be useful to con-
traband smugglers. This brings up
rather hilarious mind pictures of
federal officials chasing bootleggers'
agents from crag to crag over the
rocks of Jay Peak, which would be
rather hazardous for the contraband.
United States marshals are also
bothered a good deal by attempts to
smuggle Chinese across the border
from Quebec; the spectacle of China
men being led in darkness over the
kind of trails that mixers like, in the
northern Vermont wilds would be
amusing for mixers to whom the He'll
Brook and Kingsford Trails on Mount
Mansfield have no terrors, but hardly
for the smuggling party.
However, James P. Taylor, the live
corresponding secretary of the Green
Mountain Club, isn't depending on
smugglers for the job. He has been
busy all spring arousing interest in
the proposed extension from Johnson,
northward, and particularly as to Jay
Peak a fine eminence over 1000 feet
high in the town of Richford, few
miles from the international bound
airy, whose charms he regards as
sadly neglected. Jay Peak is land
mark for this part of Vermont and
gives view which equals that from
any peak of its height in New Eng
land
Plan for Jay Peak Day"
Mr. Taylor has been trying to find
out-of-door folks in the towns of
Franklin and Orleans counties, along
the boundary of which the extension
will run, to undertake its construc-
ton. AS to Jay Peak itself, he has
been organizing Gay Peak Day." to
be held sometime early this summer,
when residents and visitors will be
asked to assemble at the foot of the
mountain, where the possibilities of
trail to its summit, on a line which !
may become part of the extended !
Long Trail, may be surveyed. The
trustees of the Improvement Club of |
Barton, wide-awake town east of !
Jay Peak, have approved the idea and |
have named w. H. Gilpin, F. w. Cut
ting, j. F. Batchelder, R. P. Webster
and Walter Buckley as committee
to "put it over" /
Mr.. Taylor has sent the editor of
the outing page map, which is here
reproduced with a portion of the
Long Trail, south to Cancels
Hump, showing the line of the ex-
tension, regarded as best from the
scenic point of view, which has
usually governed the building of the
present 210 miles of the trail from
the Massachusetts border to Johnson.
1t turns west from johnson to Pros
pect Rock, where is a fine view of the
valley of the Lamoille river and of
Mount Mansfield and the Sterling
Range southwark; goes over Round
Lapaway Mountain, climbs
the fine big Belvidere Mountain, de-
scends into Hazen's Notch, climbs
Mountain, and, as a
climax, Jay Peak, overlooking the
boundary.
With such an extension, old and
new friends of the Long Trail could
extend their summer hikes from
Mount Mansfield north across the Dor
der to Montreal or Quebec whatever
their object and it would give a new,
flavor about such an
excursion.
Aside from interest in this addition,
the Long Trail grows in popularity
every year and will attract thousands
of vigorous out-of-door folks to the
Green Mountain SUBMITS in the next
few months. The LOO members of
the Green Mountain Club, organized
in several sections, including a New
York one of $50, do something new
every season to add to the attractions
and comforts of this long path, the
longest single trail in the East.
Memorial Day Trail Patrol
mine the repairs and improvements
required. All of the sections-the
Burlington, which maintains the trail
from Johnson to Cancels Hump; the
Mr.. Taylor and President Charles
P. Cooper of Rutland organized for
Memorial Day patrol of the trail to
observe the ravages of the winter
SHOWS and storms in the form of
olowdowns and washouts, and deter
New York. which maintains it from
Cancels Hump to Middlebury Gap; ,
he Monroe Skyline, named for Prof. I
viii S. Monroe of Montelair, N. j., :
who made it; the Lake Plead section, /
from Middlebury Gap to Rochester I