January 4, 2006
The biweekly electronic newsletter of the Carolina Mountain Club
Happenings in the next two weeks Last chance to join these activities
Other News Important news
Conservation Know your invasives and rare plants
Interview Talking with Gerry McNabb
Heard on the trail On a personal note

        Please send me your hiking news, hike and maintenance reports by Monday evening before the newsletter comes out, that is, by Monday evening February 6 (what??) to Danny Bernstein danny@hikertohiker.org. Include your email address at the end of your story. Thank you.

       The new logo was designed Gerry McNabb, our outgoing president. Thank you Gerry for being at the CMC helm this past year.!

What's Happening in the Next Two Weeks

Learn Terrain Navigator

       For those of you who have either Maptech-Terrain Navigator or Terrain Navigator Pro, we’re offering an in-depth survey of their features most useful to maintainers and hikers. The survey course will be held from 7:00 p.m. to about 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 12th, 2006. Preregistration required. To register, call Dave Wetmore at 884-7296 dwetmore@citcom.net . This is not a course on GPS use., that will come later.

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Other Important News

Southeastern Foothills Trail Coalition Report

       Don Walton, our representative to the Southeastern Foothills Trail Coalition, went to their strategic planning meeting and brought back this report.

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Get your birding on a trail near you
By Becky Johnson, Staff Writer for the Smoky Mountain News

       A North Carolina Birding Trail is under way and could one day could link popular birding sites across the state from the coast to the mountains. The trail will inform birders about interesting birding sites across the state, how to get to there, and what types of birds they can expect to see. Read the whole article.

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Hike Leaders Dinner - March 1

       Block out the evening of Wednesday March 1, 2006 for our usual evening of food, prizes, fun, and training! All those who led hikes in 2005 will be getting an invitation (with details) sometime after Christmas. Dave Wetmore dwetmore@citcom.net

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Interview

        If you go to the IMDB (Internet Movie Data Base) website and check out Being There with Peter Sellers and go all the way down the cast list, you will see the name of our outgoing president, Gerry Mcnabb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/fullcredits. The movie was filmed at the Biltmore Estate in the late 70s.

       Gerry remembers that he had what was supposed to have been a speaking role as Woltz. “I rode shotgun in the limo for the President, played by Jack Warden. I spoke a greeting to Peter Sellers and Melvyn Douglas in the entrance hall of the estate, but like many, I am sure, that scene ended up somewhere on the cutting room floor, but I am still in the picture.”

Read the whole interview.

 

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Heard on the trail

       I'm off to South Africa for a couple of weeks. Please send me your trip reports, hiking and maintenance news and I'll collect it all for the next issue of the eNews.

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Danny Bernstein
danny@hikertohiker.org