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Many of the articles/posts on this site were moved from www.hut2hut.info to this US Hut Alliance website. The idea is to turn USHutAlliance.org into the “go-to” place for information about huts, and also to archive the original hut2hut content. Once the US Hut Alliance is adding new content regularly and has become the primary source of substantive information about huts for its members and for the public, Sam Demas will phase out the hut2hut.info website..
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Article Library
History of Hut Systems in USA
A history of U.S. hut systems, including a table of chronological development in USA. This brief outline of the evolution of hut systems in USA is a placeholder for a more detailed piece which someone else will doubtless undertake someday. It would be a great topic for a graduate thesis or book.
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.
