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| Upcoming Hikes | Hike Reports | CMC Calendar |
| Happenings in the next two weeks | Hiking Europe slide show on Oct. 21 |
| Other News | Wilderness First Aid Course |
| Conservation | Grandfather Mountain, the newest state park (for now) |
| Heard on the Ground | The Smokies needs your help. |
| Heard on the Trail | Can you find the copperhead? |
| The small print | Deadlines, change of addresses and other details |
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From Your Editor Our Annual Meeting is coming up on Saturday Nov. 1. Please come out and meet your fellow CMC members and your officers. Watch for a special edition of the eNews on the CMC Annual Meeting. In the meantime, please sign up for the dinner - now. Danny ---------------------- Back to Top What's Happening in the Next Two Weeks Hiking Europe - Slide Show at Diamond Brand Outdoors - Oct. 21
Follow author Danny Bernstein on several hiking trips in Europe, including the Chemin Stevenson, a long-distance trail in France, the Coast to Coast Walk in Northern England and a week long challenging hike with the DNT, the Norwegian Trekking Association through Jotunheimen National Park, the Land of the Giants. In Norway, Danny and husband Lenny hiked through terrain that included glacier valleys, lakes, and waterfalls with mountains above 7,000 ft. See the Mountain Xpress article on the trip to the Norwegian Mountains. The program will be on Tuesday, October 21 at 7 P.M. Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Diamond Brand Outdoors. ---------------------- Back to Top
Weekend in the Damascus Area - Oct. 17 and 18 There will be a weekend trip to Damascus, VA for hiking to Mt. Rogers and biking on the Virginia Creeper Trail -- stay Oct. 17th. and Oct 18th. evenings at a local B&B -- contact Tish Desjardins at 828-656-2191 or by email. Check out the Mt. Rogers National Recreation Area - http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/gwj/mr/index.shtml ---------------------- Back to Top
Wilderness First Aid Course on Nov. 15 -1 6
---------------------- Back to Top MST Month - From the Asheville Citizen-Times Oct. 2, 2008
“I think the Mountains-to-Sea Trail is really a treasure of the Asheville area,” Robbins said. “It’s so close to the center of population, that despite the gas shortage, people didn’t have to drive far for a nice wilderness experience.” For more about the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, see http://www.ncmst.org/ ---------------------- Back to Top
CMC Annual Dinner & Meeting - November 1, 2008
Our guest speaker will be Adrienne Wallace, superintendent of the Chimney Rock State Park. She will be able to provide us with a glimpse into the future of the Park and the Hickory Nut Gorge area. There will be a social hour with refreshments from 5 to 6 during which we will have a slide show running to acquaint you with the two new club challenges, the waterfall challenge and the fire tower challenge. At 6 o'clock (dinner time) everyone
will find something to
eat from the buffet which will include a prime ribs carving board,
chicken Marsala, and
vegetarian lasagna. That will be followed by a short annual meeting Don't forget to send in your form for CMC membership renewal and annual dinner reservation. Barth Brooker. ---------------------- Back to Top Surprise Birthday Party for Bernard Elias
Save the date (Sat. afternoon, Dec. 6) for a CMC 90th birthday party for Bernard Elias, member since before any of the rest of us were born. It will be a potluck, and we'll ask folks to bring pictures of Bernard and memories to share. Details later, and remember, don't tell Bernard! Becky Smucker ---------------------- Back to Top
Grandfather Mountain, the 34th North Carolina State Park
Making that area a state park will ensure that it will even more protected. Hopefully, the State Park system will add new hiking trails as well. The state will pay $12 millions which is a bargain, considering that we paid over $20 millions for Chimney Rock Park. The 604-acre tourist attraction which includes the Swinging Bridge will be taken over by a nonprofit corporation run by the Morton family. They say that nothing will change in that section. Now the state of North Carolina has 34 state parks. Danny ---------------------- Back to Top Trail Maintenance Opportunity for Volunteers to Give Back and Participate in the GSMNP! I wanted to let you know that Trails Forever is beginning work on the Forney Ridge trail on October 6. I hope that some of your members might be interested in getting involved. The trail crew is based out of Cherokee, NC and will be working Mon-Sat. until mid-November. The Forney Ridge trail is also located in Swain County, NC. We do have free camping with showers and cooking facilities available if anyone would want to stay for a few days and cut down on the driving.Please call or write if you have any questions or would like more information. Thanks and take care. Jeremy Sweat, 75th Anniversary VIP Coordinator ---------------------- Back to Top Adopt a Section of the Appalachian Trail Tanyard Gap to Hurricane Gap, 3.4 miles Adopt a Section of the MST Licklock Gap to Doubletop 0.9 miles If you're interested, email Don Walton. ---------------------- Back to Top Maintenance Reports created by Don Walton
---------------------- Back to Top Can you Spot the Copperhead? You may see this in the fall, when all the leaves drop on the ground near the privacy fence or the storage house and the underbrush gets crowded with leaves and limbs. Be careful when you rake those fall leaves. Bill Gupton Can you spot the copperhead? Probably not. Scroll down to next pic
---------------------- Back to Top The eNews comes out on Fridays. So ... The next issue will come out on Friday, October 24 . This will allow the Sunday and Saturday hike leaders a little more time to send in their report; Wednesday hike reports for the hike just before the eNews comes out will be published in the next eNews.So send me your news and maintenance reports by Tuesday evening at 9 P.M. before the newsletter comes out, that is, by Tuesday evening October 21, 2008 to Danny Bernstein at danny@hikertohiker.com. Include your email address at the end of your story. I can only accept the Wednesday hike report by Wednesday evening. Thank you. The CMC Calendar is meant to answer the perennial question "When is this happening again?" It is also meant to prevent conflicts between competing CMC events. Please check it often. How to join the Carolina Mountain Club ---------------------- Back to Top |
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Danny Bernstein
danny@hikertohiker.com
A Wilderness First Aid (WFA) will be offered on November 15-16 at the Blue Ridge Parkway's Destination Center. This hands-on, sixteen-hour course covers a wide range of wilderness medicine topics for people who travel in the outdoors. Whether you are a hiker, maintainer, or leader, you want to be prepared for the unexpected. The Wilderness Medicine Institute of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) has a unique curriculum with topics that haven't been covered in classes previously offered through CMC. After these two days, you'll have the knowledge, skills and ability to make confident decisions in emergency situations.
BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY – Paula Robbins was nervous that the scarcity of gasoline would keep people from coming along on her hike last Sunday.
We are looking forward to a great turnout for the annual dinner. The
last day of
daylight savings was selected to give you a bit of extra daylight for youe trip to
The Chariot in Hendersonville. Westgate will be used as a meeting place for those who may not wish to drive to Hendersonville.
Birthday Party and it's a secret!
The state of North Carolina has agreed to buy Grandfather Mountain's backcountry area. This is wonderful news for hikers. The 2,600 acres will comprise the state's newest park. The backcountry was already protected with conservation easements. It's the area that most of the 250,000 visitors never see.
