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| What's Happening Now | Meet your new CMC Council |
| Other Important News | Volunteer needed |
| Book Review | Asheville Trail Running |
| Interview | Meet Sharon McCarthy |
| Heard on the Ground | Friday trail crew gets prestigiouis award |
| Heard on the Trail | Solving your holiday gifting |
| The Small Print | Deadlines, change of addresses and other details |
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From Your Editor Happy Thanksgiving! No great treatise, no appeal for your time and energy ... Just Happy Thanksgiving! Meet your CMC Council for 2011
President - Barth Brooker Councilor for Communication – Stuart English Jorge Munoz received the Distinguished Service Award for his great work in trail maintenance. Tim Carrigan received the Award of Appreciation for his work on the new website. Ken Deal was honored for 10 years of dedicated trail maintenance. Congratulations to all. 
Come to Sherman Stanbaugh's 90th Birthday Celebration - Sat. Dec. 4 Sherman Stanbaugh is 90 years old and CMC wants to celebrate. Place: Unitarian-Universalist Church of Asheville at 1 Edwin Place. Date: Saturday Dec. 4 Time: 3 to 5 P.M. RSVP: Carol Deal 828-281-4530 or cnkdeal@charter.net ASAP This will be an appetizer potluck. You can bring a bottle of wine as well. Casual dress and no gifts please.
Hike leaders needed for Virginia Journeys 2011 The 2011 ATC Biennial Conference will take place at Emory and Henry College (near Abingdon, Virginia) from July 1 to July 8, 2011. We need volunteers for Hike Leaders and Co-Leaders or Assistant Hike Leaders. Hikes will take place on the A.T. and various side trails from a few miles south of the Watauga Lake in Tennessee to a few miles north of I-77 in Virginia. There will also be hikes on trails in several State and Local Parks. Hikes vary in difficulty from easy (2-5 miles) to very strenuous. A complete list of planned hikes can be found on the Conferences website at www.Virginia2011.org. Hike Leaders should plan on scouting hikes in advance if they have not hiked there recently. Hike Leaders can either find their own Assistant or Co-Leader or we will also match up individual volunteers. If you are interested in leading hikes at Virginia Journeys 2011, please contact Pat Egan at: egans@firstva.com or 540-997-1339. Apply for your dream job - Be a Smokies Park ranger Great Smoky Mountains National Park is recruiting for summer seasonals at all three major locations including Oconaluftee Visitor Center. Job openings are posted in USAJobs.gov and closes Nov 29. It's only been up for a week. If you've ever dreamed about wearing the green and the gray, go for it. Volunteer needed for important work! Were you wondering what to do with all those days you can't hike due to cold, snow or rain? We have just the answer for you. We need a volunteer to help administer the membership data base. Responsibilities include picking up membership forms and other mail from the CMC post office box in downtown Asheville, inputting new membership information in the data base for those new members without computer access, updating data base information and helping members joining, renewing or changing membership information online. The only requirement is a willingness to help other CMC members. If this sounds like something you would like to do call or email Marcia Bromberg at 505-0471 or mwbromberg@yahoo.com 2013 ATC Biennial – A Progress Report As an A.T.-maintaining club, CMC is part of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC). ATC biennial meetings, which are held in odd-numbered years, are the one opportunity for members to meet each other, hike parts of the A.T. they might not normally get to, and learn how the ATC operates. Typically, about 900-1000 ATC members attend. The meeting rotates up and down the Trail. Read about CMC's involvement in the 2013 ATC Biennial. Save the Date for a spring weekend in the Smokies April 15, 16, 17, 2011 -- CMC weekend at group site in Cade's Cove Campground in the Smokies with moderate wildfower hikes and strenuous hike to the A.T. You don't camp?? No problem. Stay in Townsend and join us for hikes and around the campfire. A record year for challenge programs Congratulations to challenge completers in 2010! More hikers completed hiking challenge programs this year than ever before. Fifteen CMCers finished challenges, with each challenge program represented with a completion. Completing South Beyond 6,000 were Jacob Cox, Jesse Boyd, Bill & Ginger Dora, Gus Jerdee, Rich Sampson, Jack Claywell, and James Rains Jr. Completing the Lookout Tower Challenge were Gary Neibert and Michael Miller. Completing the Waterfall & Cascade 100 were Kay Shurtleff, Swako Jager, and John Meisenhelder. Bud Haas completed the Pisgah 400. Janet Martin and Lenny Bernstein completed the Smokies 900 Challenge - hiking all the trails in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Two CMC members recently completed thru-hikes of Appalachian Trail. Rod Bosse Jr., (aka Lorod), of Seneca, SC, and Peter Barr (aka Whippersnap), of Hendersonville, became 2,000 milers this summer. Rod Bosse Jr. completed his thru-hike on September 8. His hike lasted 160 days. Peter Barr finished his thru-hike on August 29. His hike lasted 161 days. Rod & Peter are now both AT 2,000 milers and South Beyond 6,000 completers.
Matt completed all 40 peaks in one continuous journey that lasted only 4 days, 14 hours, and 38 minutes.This time broke the previous speed record, set by Ted ‘Cave Dog” Keizer (of Oregon) in 2003, by over nine hours. Thanks Matt for bringing the record back to the CMC and North Carolina! Peter Barr, Chair of the CMC Challenge Committee
How to Write a Hike Report - by Dave Wetmore The eNews is read by many people, some of whom have slow data transmission lines. We have designed the eNews with these people in mind. If it takes a long time to download a page, people will stop downloading it. Because computers differ greatly in screen sizes and typefaces we cannot specify how a page will look on a particular computer. These two facts, slow computers and different displays and fonts, mean that we have to balance the amount of content with download speed. Content means both words and pictures. For the words, one or two paragraphs are fine for a hike report. For pictures we want no more than two pictures for hike. We crop the pictures to our standard size (5.75 by 3.75 inches) and resolution (72 pixels per inch). Please include the name of the picture taker for the photo credit line. It is most convenient for us if you just send your hike reports as email messages. Please do not use the "Enter" key to break lines when you type. We have to take all the line breaks out. Try to avoid word processors such as Word. In some cases we have to remove formatting commands. Also, do not put the pictures in the body of the email. If you drag your pictures into the email as attachments we can quickly drag them to their proper places in the eNews files. Asheville Trail Running by Trish Brown - not just for runners
That's what Trish Brown, elite Asheville trail runner, asked. Maybe people just don't know where to go. So she designed, planned, and wrote Asheville Trail Running: Taking Bent Creek and the Mountains-to-Sea Trail in Stride. But this book is not just for runners - With 25 loops in Bent Creek and seven on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, it's a major resource for hikers as well. Consider the Lake Loop; it's 1.72 miles, a perfect loop if you have friends who say that "they don't hike." If you want to take nonhiking friends on a real hike, you can walk the 5.4 miles of the Cherokee Loop. I'll speed walk it and say I've exercised for the day. But if you are a trail runner, try the Anne Riddle Lundblad Loop - 19.5 miles. Lundblad with two other women ran the CMC SB6K last year and is the toughest runner in the area. This run could be good training for the Shut-In Race. In college Trish majored in mathematics and went on to receive a Masters in Statistics. And her book reflects this desire for accuracy. She used a Garmin GPS, then biked the trails with a pedometer and then rehiked the loops with a calibrated wheel - the last also used by Walt Weber on his MST book. Every loop was “beta tested” by a runner unfamiliar with that particular trail so that directions could be checked. The book is spiral bound so you can lay it down and photocopy a run before you go out. But the best part is Trish's Carry Cards in the back of the book. These are basic "turn left, turn right" directions that you can cut out, laminate, and carry on the run. Why didn't my publisher or I think of that with my hiking guides? Asheville Trail Running is available at Malaprops, Diamond Brand, many other outlets and directly from Trish Brown on her website. Meet Sharon McCarthy by Danny Bernstein Not all active hikers get their outdoor start from their parents. Some hikers, like Sharon McCarthy, get it from their children. "My parents never hiked or camped. Rural children play outside in an unstructured way," Sharon says. Read the whole interview with Sharon.
People in the News Gary Eblen named ATC Volunteer of the Month Congratulations to Gary Eblen for being named the Appalachian Trail Conservancy's November Volunteer of the Month! Read more about his award at http://www.appalachiantrail.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=mqLTIYOwGlF&b=5349373&ct=8869261 Les Love named to the N.C. Trails Committee
Two people represent the Hiking Community (the other person is from Morehead City), one each for Equestrian, Paddling, Local Parks and Rec, Mountain Bicycle and Off-Highway Vehicle. Les was appointed by Dee Freeman, Secretary of the NCDENR.
Friday maintenance crew wins Yellow Ladyslipper Award
Skip Shelton and the Friday maintenance crew won a prestitious award from Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy. CMLC's winter newletter explains that "When CMLC began planning a new trail to the top of Bearwallow Mountain as part of expanding the Upper Hickory Nut Gorge Trail System, several members expressed interest. They have since contributed many hours and invaluable expertise to the project, helping to teach and inspire new volunteers along the way". Congratulations Friday Crew! MST sections for adoption 1. Doubletop to Old Bald access - Length is 1.1 miles 3. Bear Pen Gap Access to Haywood Gap - 2 miles If you're interested, contact Larry Sobil at lsobil@bellsouth.net Solving your gift giving Let the CMC eNews solve your holiday gift giving problems in one fell swoop. This year, forget about that tie for your Uncle Joe or another purse for your Aunt Jane and don't even think about passing on that fruitcake. Instead buy them all a membership to an organization that supports our hiking land. Your gift recipients don't have to be local. All these groups conserve either National lands (Parks and Forests) or State lands. The eNews comes out on the last Friday of the month. So ... The next issue will come out on Friday, December 31. Wednesday hike reports for the hike just before the eNews comes out will be published in the next eNews. Hiker leaders, please send all your eNews hike reports and photos to Dave Wetmore at dwetmore@citcom.net So send me your news and maintenance reports by Tuesday evening at 9 P.M. before the newsletter comes out, that is, by Tuesday evening December 28 to Danny Bernstein at danny@hikertohiker.com. Include your email address at the end of your story. Thank you. The CMC Calendar is meant to answer the perennial question "When is this happening again?" It is also meant to prevent conflicts between competing CMC events. Please check it often. Westgate parking - Park in the northernmost part of the lot - past EarthFare, in the last row of parking spaces. How to join the Carolina Mountain Club If you are a non-member subscriber, you need to go back to the |
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Congratulations to Matt Kirk, of Marion, who set a new South Beyond 6,000 speed record this summer.
Congratulations to Les Love on being appointed to the N.C. Trails Committee, an advisory panel for the 