CONTENTS

Maps, Long Trail, Mt. Mansfield Trails...Inside Front Cover The Green Mountain Club 4 Purposes and Membership, Dues 6 Hiking Equipment, The Pack 7, 10 Food Suggestions 12 Care of Fires, Camp Rules 13, 14 Notes on Maps, Hiking Times 17

MAP AND TRAIL DIVISIONS

Division I.—Blackinton and Williamstown, Mass., to Bennington-Wilmington, Vt., Highway 18 Division II.—Bennington-Wilmington Highway to Arlington-Wardsboro Road 24 Division III.—Arlington-Wardsboro Road to Mad Tom (Notch) Shelter 28 Division IV.—Mad Tom (Notch) Shelter to Wallingford-East Wallingford Road 34 Division V.—Wallingford-East Wallingford Road to Sherburne Pass 40 Division VI.—Sherburne Pass to Brandon-Rochester Highway 53 Blue Ridge Trails 53 Du Val Trail Map 60 Division VII.—Brandon-Rochester Highway to Cooley Glen Shelter 61 Division VIII.—Cooley Glen Shelter to Birch Glen Camp 70 Division IX.—Birch Glen Camp to Bolton Lodge 76 Division X.—Bolton Lodge to French Camp 82 Mt. Mansfield and Vicinity 88 Division XI.—French Camp to Tillotson Shelter 100 Division XII.—Tillotson Shelter to Canadian Border 108 Outlying Mountains 118 First Aid for Simple Emergencies 121 Hiking Times and Distance Table 123 Stopping Places, Supplies, Mail 126 Officers of the Green Mountain Club 127 Index to Advertisers by Towns 130 Membership Blank 131 Winter Sports...Inside Back Cover

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 great many outlying peaks, like Ascutney, in the Connecticut Valley, are easily accessible and afford excellent views. Some boast good automobile roads although the greater number are reached only by foot paths. Brief descriptions will be found on page 118. 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.