CONTENTS

Map of Long Trail and Vermont................Inside Front Cover Map of Mt. Mansfield Trails......................Inside Front Cover Preface ......................................................... 3 The Green Mountain Club............................ 4 Purposes and Membership.......................... 5 Dues .............................................................. 6 Hiking Equipment ......................................... 8 The Pack ....................................................... 9 Food Suggestions .......................................... 11 Care of Fires, Camp Rules........................... 13

MAP AND TRAIL DIVISIONS

Division I.—Blackinton and Williamstown, Mass., to Bennington-Wilmington, Vt., Highway.................. 17 Division II.—Bennington-Wilmington Highway to Arlington-Wardsboro Road ........................................ 23 Division III.—Arlington-Wardsboro Road to Mad Tom (Notch) Shelter .................................................. 26 Division IV.—Mad Tom (Notch) Shelter to Wallingford-East Wallingford Road........................................ 33 Division V.—Wallingford-East Wallingford Road to Sherburne Pass ....................................................... 38 Division VI.—Sherburne Pass to Brandon-Rochester Highway ............................................................ 43 Blue Ridge Trails.............................................. 44 Du Val Trail Map................................................ 47 Division VII.—Brandon-Rochester Highway to Cooley Glen Shelter ................................................................. 50 Division VIII.—Cooley Glen Shelter to Birch Glen Camp 53 Division IX.—Birch Glen Camp to Bolton Lodge... 57 Division X.—Bolton Lodge to French Camp...... 61 Mt. Mansfield and Vicinity.............................. 67 Division XI.—French Camp to Tillotson Shelter... 70 Division XII.—Tillotson Shelter to Canadian Border 73 Officers of The Green Mountain Club............ 76 Index to Advertisers by Towns......................... 79 Membership Blank ............................................ 81

PREFACE

THE Green Mountains of Vermont are well known to the hiking enthusiast. While they have much in common with the ranges to the east and west, they have been found to possess unique 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, Adirondacks 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 brings the hikers to them in increasing numbers each year.

Thirty miles across in southern Vermont, narrowing down to a single range 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 valleys, traversed by little rivers, lie between the ranges, with big and little brooks on every hand. Lakes and ponds to the number of four hundred lie scattered between.