November 22, 2006

Hunting Season:

        Please send me your hiking news, hike and maintenance reports by Monday evening before the newsletter comes out, that is, by Monday evening December 4 to Danny Bernstein danny@hikertohiker.org. Include your email address at the end of your story. Thank you.

       For CMC members only - Send all address and email changes to Jean Gard at jeangard@charter.net.

What's Happening the Next Two Weeks

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Other Important News

Help the AT Supervisor

I have been the AT Supervisor for almost ten years and would like to turn it over to younger people at some time in the not too distant future. If you are interested in joining me in order to ease the load and to become familiar with all that goes with the Supervisor position, please contact me, Howard McDonald at  <hamcdonald@cytechcis.net> or 828-693-8258. Thank you!

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Great Southeastern Hiking Festival - May 3 - 6, 2007
Make plans to attend the American Hiking Society's Great Southeastern Hiking Festival. It will be held at the Montreat Conference, our own backyard. Workshops, music, seminars, and of courses, hikes, hikes, hikes. Check it all out at Great Southeastern Hiking Festival website. If you want to present a workshop, use the form on their website. Carolina Mountain Club members have so much expertise - hike leadership, maintenance, trail building, using a GPS, conservation activities ....Let's share some of it!

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Conservation

What is going on in Hazel Creek?
The following shows that the most important conservationists are the hikers who actually walk the trails.

Hazel Creek Trail in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park is located in the middle of the most extensive roadless area in the eastern United States.
So what do most Hazel Creek Trail campsite squatters and New York City street vendors have in common? Answer: Those wheeled carts which carry everything, including the proverbial kitchen sink! Read about the mutilation of Hazel Creek.

Also see another article with pictures
These two article originally appeared in the Smoky Mountain News, a weekly news magazine covering Haywood, Jackson, Macon and Swain counties, on November 6, 2006.

Heard on the Trail

Look at these pictures!

From Danny:

These photos have been circulating on the web and I thought they were literary breathtaking. It's a long way down there.I think this is in China, but not sure.

And I was concerned because the bridges on the Indian Creek Trail had lost their bannisters. (See the hike report for the Nov. 19 hike.)

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