CMC E-News
October 26, 2005
Bear and Boar Hunting season
(That's with guns, folks, Wear that Orange)
Oct. 17-Nov. 19, 2005
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CMC E-News
Bear and Boar Hunting season |
| Happenings in the next two weeks | Last chance to join these activities |
| Annual Dinner | Friday Nov. 11 - New details |
| Other News | Important news |
| Interview | Bernard Elias |
| Conservation | North Shore Road |
| Slate of Officers | CMC Nominating Committee offers its slate |
| Heard on the Trail | We get letters! |
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Please send me your hiking news, hike and maintenance reports by Monday evening before the newsletter comes out, that is, by Monday evening Nov. 7 to Danny Bernstein danny@hikertohiker.org. Include your email address at the end of your story. Thank you. What's Happening in the Next Two Weeks Talk on the North Shore Road Issue on Thursday Oct. 27 Ted Snyder, a lawyer involved in the North Shore Road issue since 1968, and Leonard Winchester, chair of Citizens for the Economic Future of Swain County, will speak on the North Shore Road on Thursday October 27th at the Unitarian Church on Charlotte St. in Asheville. Social gathering at 7 P.M. and program at 7:30 P.M. This program promises to answer all your questions about an issue that has the distinction of being the longest-running open item on the Congressional agenda. Get there early for a good seat. Map-Reading Course Nov. 5 Tom Bindrim and Dave Wetmore, 828-884-7296, dwetmore@citcom.net Based on the interest expressed when we first had this course last spring, we have decided to offer it again. Attendees must bring a compass and a copy of the Dunsmore Mtn. topo map. The map can be bought at a good outdoors store or a Foirest Service office. There will be a short informal class, followed by a practical exercise. Please contact Dave Wetmore for information on the meeting time and to register. You must register before the course. No walk-ins please. Topo: Dunsmore Mtn. ---------------------- Back to Top NEW ROARING FORK SHELTER DEDICATION - Sunday November 6.
---------------------- Back to Top CMC’s Annual Banquet and Meeting will be held on Friday, November 11, at The Chariot Restaurant in Hendersonville. A social hour will begin at 6:00 p.m., dinner at 7:00, and the meeting at 8:00. The dinner will cost $22 per person and beer and wine will be available for $3. Vegetarian meals will be available on request. Send your dinner reservation form and 2006 membership renewal to CMC, P.O. Box 68, Asheville, NC 28802. A map showing the location of the restaurant is attached to the reservation form. The main items of business at the meeting will be election of next year’s officers and Council members, approval of next year’s budget and a new set of by-laws and recognition of CMC members who have made outstanding contributions to the Club’s efforts, both in 2005 and long term. Our guest speaker will be Jeffrey Hunter, Executive Director of the Southeast Foot Trails Coalition, which has as one of its goals creation of a 5,000 mile network of trails in the southeast that would include CMC’s sections of both the AT and MST. CMC is a member of this coalition. Come join us, spend some time with your hiking friends, and help manage the Club’s activities. Car Pool to the Annual Meeting and Dinner CMC members who want to car pool from the Asheville area, to the November 11 Annual Meeting and Diner at the Chariot Restaurant in Hendersonville, should meet at Westgate no later than 5:15 p.m. Marlene Santa Maria will be there to organize the car pool. Please remember, the voluntary contribution for passengers is 10 cents per mile. Help Wanted – Annual Dinner We need several people to help at the Annual Dinner by handing out name tags and collecting money for beer and wine. If enough people volunteer, nobody will have to help for more than 30 minutes, and we can all have time to socialize. If you can help, please contact Lenny Bernstein by phone (828-236-0192) or e-mail (Lsberns@worldnet.att.net). Many thanks. New Park Headquarters coming Blue Ridge Parkway officials cleared the way Tuesday for a
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12,000-square-foot, multi-million-dollar visitor center at parkway
headquarters. ---------------------- Back to Top CMC Council Recommends 10 cents a Mile for Carpooling. Responding to the drastic rise in the price of gasoline, the Council voted to change the recommended contribution to drivers from five cents a mile to ten cents a mile per passenger. This is a recommendation and drivers and passengers are free, as they have always been, to make whatever arrangements they wish. Interview with Bernard Elias
Almost 87 years old, Bernard Elias is the oldest member and has the longest tenure in the Carolina Mountain Club. Read about his love for the mountains and his CMC accomplishments in the complete interview. North Shore Road Recommendation The Carolina Mountain Club adopted
the following position on the proposed North Shore Road in the GSMNP: The Conservation Committee recommends that the CMC support the Monetary
Settlement/No Road Alternative for the following reasons: More information on the North Shore Road study alternatives, history and issues, in
addition to summaries of citizen comments, can be found at Danny: I would just like to say AMEN! to your statement that "Maybe Mountain Xpress readers should join a hiking club to learn that there are other places to hike besides crowded Mt. Pisgah and Graveyard Fields." I love the Graveyard Fields area, but if you want solitude and communing with nature, you aren't going to get it there. When I hike, I like to get away from the crowds, so try to take areas where there aren't "hordes." The wonderful thing about Pisgah National Forest is that you can create so many loop hikes with the existing trails & Forest Service Roads. Beth Ann Cushman
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Danny Bernstein
danny@hikertohiker.org
Construction of the new Roaring Fork Shelter is now complete after more than three years from the start of the project. We still have dirt to move to get the trails at the site to their final shape. The dedication of this new shelter is now scheduled for Sunday, November 6, 2005. Let's hope for good weather! It will be at 1:00 PM so that you can hike in the area and eat your lunch before the dedication.
When I moved to WNC, the first book I read about the area was Strangers in High Places by Michael Frome. Among the many pictures sprinkled throughout the book was familiar face; it was Bernard Elias.