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September 4, 2009
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| Upcoming Hikes | Hike Reports |Maintenance Schedule |
| Happenings just now | Smokies Rededication |
| Other News | Looking for your MST pictures |
| Conservation | Boating on the Chattooga River |
| Heard on the Ground | Bears cable have been installed! |
| The Small Print | Deadlines, change of addresses and other details |
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From Your Editor I attended the Great Smoky Mountains National Park rededication. Read all about it. Danny Rededication of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Let's Go on the Web Check out the new Let's Go on the CMC website at http://www.carolinamtnclub.org/LetsGo/newsletter4th09.pdf. One correction. The next A.T.C. biennial meeting will be in 2011. Looking for Pictures of the MST
They would like to have some good MST shots to include in the show, including work photos of building the trail.
Just send a few of your favorites to me at my currently empty contest mailbox. The address is contestmcnabb@charter.net (even though this is not a contest). Gerry McNabb Lucy Prim Wins Conservancy Juried Art Exhibit
The Exhibit was held by Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy. Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy helps landowners protect local land and water resources vital to our natural heritage and quality of life. As a local nonprofit organization dedicated to saving the places you love, CMLC is helping to create a regional network of protected farm, forest, park and natural lands. Bike Trip on the Greenbrier Trail in West Virginia - Oct. 9 - 12
We would leave on Fri. 9th and return Mon. 12th. The trail is 80 miles in length. Lodging is available and we will be looking into various facilities. As soon as I have several commitments I will arrange lodging. At this time I do not have any deadline to commit for the trip. I hope to make some tentative lodging arrangements within the next week or two. If you are interested please let me know as soon as possible by e-mail to carrollkoepp@bellsouth.net . Carroll Koepplinger 828-667-0723
Forest Service to Allow Boating on the Chattooga River
Read the full story. Photo is of Paul Benson on the upper Chattooga, taken by Danny Bernstein.
Bear Cables have been Installed! The CMC bear cable crew has finished the installation of bear cables at all of our A.T. shelters.
CMC had a number of bear problems at some of our shelters in 2007 so we decided to install aerial food storage cables (bear cables) at all of our shelters. We received a grant from A.T. license plate money to cover the costs of equipment and materials and started installing them in March, 2008. The first photo shows Piet Bodenhorst holding the ladder with Jeff Dektor starting the installation. The second shows a hiker lifting her pack on the completed cable at Roaring Fork shelter as we were leaving from putting up a second cable in the tent pad area. All our A.T. shelters now have cables; the last one was at Hogback Ridge shelter. Frustrated bears and some hikers playing Tarzan have caused some damage but we are fixing them and strengthening them to prevent this from happening again. We have a very good system that the hikers like and will last for many years. Our next step is to install similar cables at our most used camping spots along the A.T. Howard McDonald. Adopt a Section of the A.T. Garenflo Gap to Deer Park Mtn. Shelter, 3.4 miles Current Section Maintainer needs assistant Adopt a Section of the MST Old Bald Access to Richland Balsam Access, 4.4 miles, section maintainer needs an assistant Richland Gap Access to Richland Balsam Access (3 Trees) 1.2 miles Walnut Cove Overlook to Hardtimes Road, 1.2 miles Balsam Gap Overlook to Rainbow Gap 2.4 miles If you're interested in either the A.T. or MST, email Don Walton. Maintenance Reports created by Don Walton
The eNews comes out on Fridays. So ... The next issue will come out on Friday, September 18. Wednesday hike reports for the hike just before the eNews comes out will be published in the next eNews. Hiker leaders, please send all your eNews hike reports and photos to Dave Wetmore at dwetmore@citcom.net 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 September 15, 2009 to Danny Bernstein at danny@hikertohiker.com. Include your email address at the end of your story. 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 If you are a non-member subscriber, you need to go back to the | ||||
Danny Bernstein
danny@hikertohiker.com
Yes, this is Dolly Parton at Newfound Gap along with Superintendent Ditmanson and Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior. 
Gerry McNabb and Walt Weber are preparing a slide show for use at Diamond Brand and other locales to introduce our Revised MST book coming out this fall.
Lucy Prim, CMC hike scheduler for the half-day hikers, won second place for her painting Worlds Edge.
Several CMC members that bike are considering a bike trip to the Greenbrier (Rails-to-Trails) trail in West Virginia. We are scheduling it for Oct 9th thru 12th. It is approximately a 7 hour drive one way. See 
The Upper Chattooga River will be open to boaters for the first time in more than three decades starting Dec. 1, 2009. The U.S. Forest Service released their final decision on managing recreation on the 57-mile river that runs from the headwaters near Cashiers down along the Georgia and South Carolina state lines.
