The Lion's Claw Trail

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Excerpt from The Lion's Claw Trail: The Camel's Hump Region of the Green Mountains of Vermont The re-location of the Long Trail south of Camel's Hump was suggested, and at once appealed to Professor Monroe as an Opportunity for a choice bit of scenic trail which would make a highly impressive approach to the Lion from the south. His plan was to bring up camp equipment, food and tents for the accommodation of six. Two friends were to accompany him from New York, and relays of Green Mountain club members were to be his guests while working on the trail. The building of the trail being assured, the next in order was to prospect and blaze a trail route to save time for the builders. Two Green Mountain club members, Clarence P. Cowles and J. E. Woodruff, went from Burlington June 9, where they were joined by Forester Chamberlain and spent two days prospecting. The chosen route south of the big cliff proved impossible, the ground is covered with boulders of all shapes and sizes separated by wide and deep crevices, all mixed in with a dense growth of scrub spruce, or, where the mountain has been burnt over, a jungle of slash. Those knolls, so gentle when seen from aloft, on approach turned into steep hills, three or four hundred feet high, bristling with slash. It was a question of spending days to a mile of trail or going around, so the line of least resistance was followed. The scouts on the second day lined out the trail to a point five and one-half miles south of the Lion, when dense fog with heavy rain ended the trip. The begin ning Of the Lion's Claw Trail, however, was made. Professor Monroe and J. Ashton Allis of Montclair, N. J With Kerson Nurrian of New York arrived in Burlington June 20, where they were joined by Olden Paris, proceeding to North Duxbury by the early train. The heavy camp outfit was carried by automobile to the Calla han farm and there transferred to an ox team. The New Trail was followed up the mountain one and one-half miles to a road built by the forestry service last spring. The road passes a camp site where huge crates give the impression that a basket picnic on a giant scale had happened. These contained a large plant ing of spruce trees, the reason for the road. The actual trail begins where this road ends. And the heavy outfit was packed in half a mile to a previously lo catea camp site where an unfailing brook comes down from Baker's Notch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.