Gettysburg Academy - Osoga Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

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1 ------------ -'-OSOGA-H--i ---------- - 34 CLOUD CI-IASERS TI-IE APPALACI-IIAN TRAIL As part of the great American Youth Movement a mountain trail is now being developed that starts from Mt. Katahdin in Maine and following the mountain ridges southwest ends at Mt. Oglethorpe, Georgia. The length of this trail is about thirteen hundred miles and its high point is on one of the mountains in North Carolina, where it rises to a height of sixty- eight hundred feet. So far as possible this is a sky line trail or path opening up continually magnificent views of valleys and foot hills, of streams and rivers and lakes. People interested in the 'gout door life have associated themselves, here and there along the line, in auxiliary clubs. These clubs take over certain sections of the trail and provide for the survey, the marking or blazing and the actual work involved in making a trail suitable for hikers or horseback riders. Adirondack Shelters will be erected at intervals, for the use of campers and there will also be rest houses and small inns for their accommodation. The trail following the high ridges of the Blue Mountains through Cumberland and Adams counties, Pennsyl- vania, climbs to the top of Pole,s Steeples, a rocky cliff projecting from the mountain top and affording views of surpassing beauty and much historic interest. From the porches of Osoga Lodge, the Gettysburg Academy log cabin, this point is in plain view across Laurel Lake. A vigorous climb of thirty minutes will sufiice to bring the hikers from the lake to the Steeples and the magnificent view is well worth the effort. E143

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