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FRENCH CAMP TO TILLOTSON SHELTER

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 is crosses the Lamoille River. This is 2 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 Mountain.

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 (1,075 feet), 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 mile east of Derby's house.

The Long Trail leaves Derby's Road, crosses a ridge, and in 2 1/4 miles 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 (1,440 feet) on the left. (Closed frame camp, built 1931, stove, spring water, bunks for 10 or 12.) From the door of the camp there is a vista through the trees

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showing Hyde Park and Morrisville in line with Elmore Mountain 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 miles; time 6 to 7 hours either way.

The Trail follows the wood road away from Barrows Camp past old "Honted" House, 1/4 mile (abandoned 1931). The view is good just above "Honted" House. The Trail rises to 1,900 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 cannot 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 Mount Mansfield. At the Lookout, the Trail turns north, then east and in about 1/2 mile passes over Laraway Mountain (2,790 feet). It follows the summit ridge (Laraway North Lookout) for 2 3/4 miles and then drops to Parker Camp (1,800 feet), a framed camp, built in 1932; cook-stove and bunks for 12; water in brook 200 feet along the Trail.

Barrows Camp to Parker Camp, 7 miles; time, 7 hours either way.

From Parker Camp there is a beautiful view of Whiteface with Mansfield's Nose and Chin just showing over the ridge. An approach trail (blue blazes) leads out, south, for 2 miles to the Johnson-Codding Hollow Road at the site of the Davis Neighborhood Schoolhouse. This approach trail makes possible a good round trip hike. Leave the car at Davis Neighborhood, go up to Parker Camp, take The Long Trail over Laraway, come down to