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AMC Huts & Unification of White Mountain Trails
The AMC’s system of eight huts and the network of trails in White Mountains of N.H. were developed concurrently. After a brief introduction, this piece links to Chapter 36 of Forest and Crag bu Guy and Laura Waterman (Appalachian Mountain Club Books, 1989) offers a fascinating look at how a cohesive regional trail system evolved over a period of about 20 years, 1910 – 1930 along with the AMC huts, the first in the USA.
Founder profile: Joe Dodge, hutmaster extraordinairre
Three informative tributes to Joe Dodge from the Appalachian Mountain Club Archives, Dartmouth College, and the Boston Globe. While Joe was not technically the founder, he was the dynamo that expanded, organized, and shaped the AMC huts into a system, and who took the huts to a whole new levels of operational effectiveness and hospitality.