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Quarterly of the Green Mountain Club FALL 2019 Kingdom Heritage Trails NEWS Quarterly of the Green Mountain Club FALL 2019 Kingdom Heritage Trails | Trailside Trees | Wilderness Areas | An Abenaki Perspective | Black Bears The mission of the Green Mountain Club is to make the Vermont mountains play a larger part in the life of the people by protecting and maintaining the Long Trail System and fostering, through education, the stewardship of Vermont’s hiking trails and mountains. PHOTO BY JOCELYN HEBERT PHOTO BY JOCELYN Quarterly of the Hiker in fall and fog on the northern Long Trail near Jay Pass. Green Mountain Club Michael DeBonis, Executive Director CONTENTS Jocelyn Hebert, Long Trail News Editor Richard Andrews, Volunteer Copy Editor Fall 2019, Volume 79, No. 3 Green Mountain Club 4711 Waterbury-Stowe Road FEATURES Waterbury Center, Vermont 05677 Phone: (802) 244-7037 6 / Kingdom Heritage Trail System Finished Fax: (802) 244-5867 by Luke O’Brien E-mail: [email protected] Website: greenmountainclub.org 8 / Trailside Trees TheLong Trail News is published by The Green by Sam Perron Mountain Club, Inc., a nonprofit organization founded in 1910. In a 1971 Joint Resolution, the Vermont 10 / The Qualities of Wilderness Legislature designated the Green Mountain Club the “founder, sponsor, defender and protector of the Long by Lorne Currier Trail System...” Contributions of manuscripts, photos, illustrations, and 12 / Burnt Mountain news are welcome from members and nonmembers. by Suma Lashof and Zack Porter The opinions expressed byLTN contributors and advertisers are not necessarily those of GMC. GMC 14 / An Abenaki Perspective reserves the right to refuse advertising that is not in keeping with the goals of the organization. by Melody Walker TheLong Trail News (USPS 318-840) is published 16 / Mountain Names: Remembering their Aboriginal Origins quarterly by The Green Mountain Club, Inc., 4711 Waterbury-Stowe Road, Waterbury Center, VT 05677. by Rich Holschuh Periodicals postage paid at Waterbury Center, VT, and additional offices. Subscription is a benefit for GMC 18-20 / Bear Challenges members. Approximately $5 of each member’s dues is used to publish the Long Trail News. by GMC Staff POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Long Trail News, 4711 Waterbury-Stowe Road, Waterbury 24 / Matt Krebs: A Decade of Dedication Center, VT 05677. by Jocelyn Hebert Copyright©2019 The Green Mountain Club, Inc., 4711 Waterbury-Stowe Road, Waterbury Center, VT 26 / Leverage: It’s Not About Size or Strength 05677. Permission to reproduce in any form any of the material in this publication without prior written by Rosalie Sharp approval of The Green Mountain Club, Inc. is granted only to individuals for their own personal hiking convenience. DEPARTMENTS 3 / From the President 28 / Field Notes 36/ Volunteers Cover: Early morning hiker at Stark’s Nest. Photo 4 / Mountain Views 32/ Trail Mix 37/ Board Report by Ernesta McIntosh. 5 / Trail Support 34 / Sections 39 / Journey’s End From the President olunteers are rightly called the Pond. I encourage anyone who finds backbone of the Green Mountain themselves in the Kingdom to explore them. VClub. There is no better proof of that The volunteers who turned a vision of a than the celebration in June of the opening trail system in the Northeast Kingdom into a of the Kingdom Heritage Lands trails in the real trail system are not the only extraordinary Northeast Kingdom. volunteers in the Green Mountain Club. In a The new 20-mile trail system, envisioned typical year 13,000 volunteer hours are spent by a group of local hikers nearly 20 years ago, supporting the club and its trails. As president, is the result of those volunteers working with I had the privilege at this year’s annual meeting unwavering dedication to build the trails that of presenting President’s Awards to Hope now expand the region’s opportunities for Crifo and Melissa Reichert, whose volunteer time outdoors in the mountains and forests of commitment merit special recognition. northeastern Vermont. Hope Crifo serves on the GMC Board and Tom Candon The large and enthusiastic crowd I joined is chair of the endowment committee and a in Island Pond that day showed well-earned member of the budget and finance and camps was properly with the Forest Service, but she appreciation for GMC’s Northeast Kingdom committees. She uses her financial background has always been an outstanding supporter of Section volunteers and the extensive group and skills to help the club reach its financial GMC. of committed partners, led by the Green goals. Hope led the endowment committee Many other volunteers also deserve Mountain Club, the NorthWoods Stewardship this year in a comprehensive review and recognition (see pages 36-37 for Honorary Center, and the Vermont Department of modernization of the club’s endowment policy. Life Membership Award winners) so I invite Forests, Parks and Recreation. They were Melissa Reichert, recently retired from all of you who wish to honor them to our joined by Weyerhaeuser Company, Sweet the U.S. Forest Service, has been active on the annual volunteer appreciation picnic after the Tree Holdings LLC, the U.S. Fish and GMC Trail Management Committee and September board meeting. Wildlife Service, the Town of Brighton, the has been the U.S Forest Service representative —Tom Candon, President Vermont Land Trust, Vermont Housing and to the board. Staff members and volunteers Conservation Board, LandVest Inc., and many regularly work with partner others. This is a wonderful accomplishment representatives like Melissa to Volunteer Appreciation Picnic and I congratulate everyone involved. find solutions to problems and WHO(’s Invited): GMC volunteers, and their family and friends I’ve already hiked several of the new trails. funding for trail work. Melissa The Unknown Pond Trail led me to a quiet, provided information and WHAT: A catered fall picnic with awards and music remote pond with gray jays fluttering about, historical memory when the WHERE: Green Mountain Club Headquarters signs of the moose often reported there, and club lost longtime Director of WHEN: Saturday, September 21, 1:30–4:00 p.m. abundant wildflowers. Other trails offer the Trail Programs Dave Hardy WHY: Because we couldn’t do it without you! same sense of remoteness I found at Unknown to cancer. Her primary loyalty PHOTO BY JOCELYN HEBERT PHOTO BY JOCELYN • LONG TRAIL NEWS FALL 2019Unknown | 3 Pond Mountain Views Memories of the Trail in the 1940s Nigel and Alex to the Rescue I’m 97 years old, and have so enjoyed the Long I would like to take this opportunity to thank Trail News. I was born in Chelsea and lived in GMC for its continued efforts to protect the mountains and support hikers. I was on the GMC Officers Vermont until 1950. Tom Candon, President In July 1945, my friend, Kathleen Little, and Long Trail between Mount Mansfield (the Howard VanBenthuysen, Vice President I (then Judith Gilman) hiked two sections of the Chin) and the visitor center. As there was a Stephen Klein, Treasurer Ed O’Leary, Secretary Long Trail from Pico Peak to Middlebury Gap, heavy downpour, when I got to the visitor GMC Directors and from Bolton to Mount Mansfield. We spent center I had developed signs of hypothermia Robynn Albert, General and was not feeling well. Upon realizing my Lars Botzojorns, General nights at Pico (open faced shelter with porcupine Michelle Connor, Burlington visitations), Tucker Shelter, Noyes Pond (nice cabin situation, Nigel and Alex, summer caretakers, Hope Crifo, General helped me by Nigel taking me down the toll Elisabeth Fenn, Sterling by the pond), Carmel Camp was blown down so Bob Fish, Manchester on to Sunrise, Sucker Brook—steel camp that had road to a nearby establishment where I could Russ Ford, Northern Frontier James Fritz, Connecticut just been made over but had no bunks or stove so recover by resting. Alex offered hot water and Jean Haigh, Northeast Kingdom cocoa to help improve my condition. I want to Anne Janeway, General we went on to Lake Pleiad, a nice cabin with springs Tom Kahl, Upper Valley-Ottauquechee on the bunks, and a stove with oven. We shared thank Nigel, Alex, and Miles for their kindness Amy Kelsey, General George Longenecker, Montpelier the cabin with an army corporal and his wife— and help. Nancy McClellan, General essentially the only people we saw on the trail. —Hari Caitlin Miller, General Mike Peckar, Worcester There was a lot of rain that weekend for which Kenna Rewcastle, UVM Board Fellow Dear VLTP [Volunteer Long Trail Patrol] Ira Sollace, General we had no equipment. We only had knapsacks Martha Stitelman, Bennington with a two-blanket bed roll on top. So we took a I recently did trail work in Maine after doing Nancy Thomas,General Dann Van Der Vliet, General few days off and picked up the trail at Bolton. We work with you all in 2018. I wanted to let you Larry Walter, Killington hiked up the Joiner Brook Trail past Bolton Lodge know how well organized and thought out Matt Wels, Brattleboro Bruce Yelton, Bread Loaf to Taylor Lodge. We spent a day exploring Mount your trail crew program was for volunteers. I so John Zaber, General loved what your program offered, and adored Vacant, Laraway Mansfield, a night at Butler Lodge, hiked to Stowe, GMC Staff Directory and took the bus home. your leaders on and off trail. Big shout out to Main Telephone: (802) 244-7037 The next three years—1945 to June 1948, Rosalie Sharp and crew. I wish you all the best Jason Buss, Director of Finance while teaching at Hyde Park—I joined the Sterling with the rest of the season. Thanks for all you E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (802) 241-8214 Section of GMC, and helped build the Beaver do! Hope to reunite for the next season.
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