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Map of Long Trail and Vermont Inside front cover Map of Mt. Mansfield Trails ....Inside front cover Preface 3 Purposes and Membership 6 Dues 6 Hiking Equipment 7 Food Suggestions 10 Care of Fires 11 Camp Rules 12 Trail Divisions Div. A.—Canada Line to Gates Camp 15 Div. B.—Gates Camp to Bolton 25 Mt. Mansfield and Vicinity 28 Div. C.—Bolton to Stark Mountains. Camel's Hump and Vicinity 39 Div. D.—Stark Mountain to Breadloaf Mountain. "The Presidents" Range 45 Road and Trail Map. Long Trail Lodge and Vicinity 48, 49 Div. E.—Breadloaf Mt. to Mt. Carmel. Battell Forest 54 Du Val Trail insert Div. F.—Mt. Carmel to East Clarendon. Long Trail Lodge, Pico and Killington 64 Long Trail Lodge and Deer's Leap Caves 73 Div. G.—East Clarendon to Lake Griffith. White Rocks 74 Div. H.—Buffum Pond to Stratton Mountain. Peru and Styles Peak, Bromley and Stratton Mts. 81 Div. I.—Stratton Mountain to Massachusetts. Bennington 80 Officers of The Green Mountain Club 99 Membership Blank 95, 96

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PREFACE

THE Green Mountains of Vermont have for the last few years become well known to the hiking enthusiast. While they have some things in common with the ranges to the east and to the west of them, they have been found to possess important characteristics of their own, differing from the Adirondacks in that they represent a continuous range rather than a group of comparatively isolated peaks, and offering in their rich and inviting forests, that reach in most cases to their summits, a strong contrast to the barren grandeur of the White Mountains. Vermont is so completely mountainous that its mountain area is said to exceed the combined area of the White, Adirondack and Catskill Mountains. It is the unique character of the Green Mountains, with their beautiful forests, cool streams and distant prospects both to east and west, that has brought the hikers to them in increasing numbers during the last few years. Thirty miles across in southern Vermont, narrowing down to one range wide at Mt. Mansfield and broadening again to the north, the Green Mountain range traverses the entire length of the State, one hundred and fifty-seven miles. At Bethel the range forks, forming the "Y" of Vermont, the easterly, or Braintree, range, continuing to the northeast corner of the State. Along the western border, the Taconic Range, beginning near Middlebury, extends south to Connecticut, forming the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts. A few outlying peaks, like Ascutney Mountain, are found in the Connecticut Valley. The mountains vary in character from the bare rock-crowned peaks of the north to the forest-clad summits of the center and south. Beautiful

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