George Masa

The Great Smoky Mountains[edit source | editbeta]

Masa came to love the mountains of Western North Carolina and worked tirelessly for their preservation - at his own expense. Using his photographic equipment and an odometer he crafted from an old bicycle,^[3] Masa meticulously catalogued a significant number of peaks,^[4] the distances between them, and the names given to them by the local settlers and the Cherokee.^[2] He was a friend ofHorace Kephart ^[5] and the two of them worked together to ensure that a large portion of the Great Smoky Mountains would be established as a national park. Masa also scouted and marked the entire North Carolina portion of the Appalachian Trail.^[6]

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