The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, May 11, 1923, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
A TRIP TO MT. MITCHELL
Although Carolina boys, as a gen
eral thing, hate to get up early in
the morning there are thme when
they will rise early when It becomes:
absolutely necessary. So on June
21st, last year, in the heart of the
Blue Ridge mountains certain repre
sentatives of Carolina dragged them
selves from their comfortable cots
at the unearthly hour of 3:30 o'clock
in the morning. These representa
ties chanced to be Calhoun Thomias,l
McBride Dabbs, Rosser Baxter and
the writer of this article (said
write being "Mlutt" Millard). Why
the early rise? Well, for no other
reason but that we were going to
hike that dlay to the top of Mt.
Mitchell, nineteen miles away, and
6.711 feet above sea level; in other
words, the highest peak east of the
Rockies.
We dressed, shivering meanwhile,
for It was cold at that hour of the
morning, and assembling our "feed,"
Joined the rest of the hiking party
at Robert E. Lee Hall, which Is the
large central building of the -Blue
Ridge Association. The rest of the
party consisted of five boys from
Wofford and two from Newberry col
lege, so it was entirely a South Caro
lina affair. We had engaged a man
to carry us the first six mniles of
our Journey in a car, from Blue
Ridge to Montreat, which is across
the valley. He carried half of us
over on one trip, and then went back
after the rest, leaving the advance
party to wait at Mlontreat until the
rest arrived. In the. course of time
the rest of the bunch arrived, having
walked part of the way after the car
broke an axle, and we proceeded to
The Golden Rule Store
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rouse the cook at the Montreat cafe
teria from his peaceful slumbers and
have him prepare a light breakfast
for the crowd. After consuming a
goodly supply of breakfast bacon, eggs
and coffee, we were ready for the
trail.
We left Montreat a little before
sunup and began the climb, for climb
it is from there until one reaches
the summit of Mitchell, 13 miles away.
As we climber higher we c ne into
the sunlight, and our spiritsose as
we did. But after a time the climb
ing became rather tedious, and there
were not as many "monkey-shines"
cut as there had been earlier in the
morning. About this time one of
the Wofford boys caused a diver
sion by falling down in a creek we
were crossing, but we didn't stop
for this, and he soon walked himself
(Iry. The sun got warmer as we
climbed and it did too, and the
sweaters we had on all came off and
were tied around our waists.
Soon we struck the auto road that
runs to within three quarters of a
mile of the top of Mt. Mitchell, and
the walking was easier. We were
up high enough now to enjoy the won
derful scenery spread out in a pano
riama before us. Just to stop a miii
ute and look out over miles and miles
of mountains and on to the level
country, with the wonderful cloud
(Continued on P'age Four)
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