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FRENCH CAMP TO TILLOTSON CAMP

The Long Trail north from French Camp goes down an old highway to the Cambridge-Johnson road (Route 15) which it follows eastward, to a steel bridge where it crosses the Lamoille River. This is two miles west of Johnson and is the southern end of the Marjorie Hulburd Section of the Long Trail, named in memory of Miss Marjorie Hulburd. Her father, Hon. R. W. Hulburd of Hyde Park, furnished funds for constructing the trail from the Lamoille River to Belvidere Mt.

Across the river, the trail turns left and follows the Johnson-Waterville road on the river's north bank for a mile. It leaves the highway at Ithiel Falls Camp Ground and goes up a wood road to the right. In 3/4 mile it reaches Prospect Rock (1075 ft.) with a fine view down the Lamoille Valley. A little way north the trail enters the Johnson-Ed. Derby road, follows it toward the left and then leaves it northward at a point 1/4 mi. east of Derby's house. Food and lodging can be obtained at Ed. Derby's. French Camp to Ed. Derby's house, 4 1/2 mi.; time, either way, 3 hr.

The Long Trail leaves Derby's road, crosses a ridge, and in 2 1/4 mi. intersects another Waterville-Johnson road near the Emery and Barrows farms. Here, the Trail follows the road to the left but soon leaves it through a barway on the right. A white target on the far side of little Judevine Brook marks the way across the open pasture and the beginning of a wood road. A third of a mile up the wood road is a big, cold spring on the right and Barrows Camp (1440 ft.) on the left. (Closed frame camp, built 1931, stove,

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spring water, bunks for 10 or 12). From the door of the camp there is a vista through the trees showing Hyde Park and Morrisville in line with Elmore Mt. beyond. From the west end of the camp there is a view of the three peaks of the Sterling Range, Whiteface, Morse, and Madonna, from left to right. French Camp to Barrows Camp, 7 mi.; time, 6 to 7 hr. either way.

The trail follows the wood road away from Barrows Camp past old "Honted" House, 1/4 mi., (abandoned 1931). The view is good just above "Honted" House. The trail rises to 1900 feet in a mile and then drops 700 feet in the next mile to the Codding Hollow road. Automobiles can reach the trail here from Waterville at the west but probably can not from Johnson at the east. Northward, beyond a field, the trail enters the forest by a wood road which it follows to the ruins of Laraway Camp. Just beyond the camp clearing there are some striking cliffs under which the trail leads to Laraway Lookout. Here is a very fine view down the North Branch of the Lamoille River with an unusual angle on Mt. Mansfield. At the Lookout, the trail turns north, then east and in 1/4 mi. passes over Laraway Mt. (2790 ft.). It follows the summit ridge for 2 mi. and then drops to Parker Camp (1800 ft.). (An open front lumberman's camp, stove, bunks for 6). Water is in a brook 1/8 mile along the Trail to the east. Barrows Camp to Parker Camp, 6 3/4 mi.; time, 7 hr., either way.

East of the brook, an approach trail (blue blazes) meets the Long Trail at the edge of a slash. It leads out, south, for 2 miles to the Johnson-Codding Hollow road at the site of the Davis Neighborhood Schoolhouse. At the edge of the