Trail Profiles and Maps From the Great Smokies to Mount Mitchen and Beyond

This beautiful, colorful book is a second edition of the popular guidebook of the Mountain to Sea Trail through Western North Carolina. In improving and reissuing this book, the sharing of the special history of a unique area of our state is perpetuated. The book includes maps as well as step-by-step map profiles. Mr. Weber, now 81, a long-time resident of Brevard, North Carolina, and member of the Carolina Mountain Club, completely re-walked the trail prior to his revisions using both professional GPS equipment as well as a mechanical measuring wheel. As a result, the new release provides a degree of accuracy few other guides are matching. One reviewer says, you "know exactly how far you will walk and exactly how much effort your hike will require." In other words, it let's you plan your hike for both difficulty and exact distance before you even leave home. The book has more than an updated history on the remarkable development of the trail itself. In addition, the book reviews-often-illustrated with archival photographs-information on the history of some of the areas through which the trail passes. This part of the second edition is newly researched and expanded from that of the first edition. These areas include George Vanderbilt's Buck Spring Lodge, Chase Ambler's Rattlesnake Lodge, Graveyard Fields, the North Carolina Arboretum, Mount Pisgah, Craggy Gardens and Mount Mitchell State Park.