LT Mile 48.6 — Division 3 — Elev. 2048.5 feet
March 10, 1955, most of the meeting of the Brattleboro Section was devoted to the planning of the new Swezey Camp. Work was to start on the weekend of April 23rd. It would take forty trees to build a 12 x 12-foot shelter, each log would be about 14 ft. The secretary received a reply from Christopher Swezey, Jr. in which he still gave the club permission to build a log shelter as planned 2 years ago. [LT News, May 1955]
Early in May 1955 a work party of 10 cut and peeled logs. Camp was started early in June, but party was deterred by fierce flies. In October, Brandon and Bill Douglas went into camp and worked all day. Starting down the jeep road about dark they found the road blocked with huge boulders and a giant bulldozer. Soon Christopher Swezey drove up and said that he was fixing the road. The Douglases went back. to camp to wait for the road crew. Mr. Swezey also gave the logs to the GMC as well as boards for the roof from his mill. [LT News, Feb. 1956]
This log lean-to, completed by the Brattleboro Section in 1956, has bunks for 10. Drinking water is to be had at a spring 50 ft south via LT. [GB 20th Edition 1971]
In late 1973 the Brattleboro Section voted to change the name of the Swezey Shelter to William B. Douglas Shelter to honor the man who had contributed much time and effort to its planning and construction. [LT News, August 1956]
The problem of repairing or rebuilding the camp has preoccupied the Brattleboro Section this year. Finally, it was decided to repair the camp. One weekend in the fall, two jeeps carrying 2 Douglases, 2 Davises, Bill Hawkins, and Richard Crosby plus roofing material and equipment went into Old Swezey Camp. The group tore off the old roof on the camp and replaced it with plywood and new paper shingles. They tarred the seams and put metal strip edging on the edges of the roof. The inside was spruced up with new plastic material in the window frames and a new piece of stove pipe on William B. Douglas Shelter – This shelter is 0. 5 mile south of the LT. It is a log lean to, completed by the Brattleboro Section in 1956, has bunks for 10. There is a spring on the trail 50 ft to the south. It is located in the Lye Brook Wilderness. A logging railroad passes this shelter which the Branch Pond Trail utilizes much of the stove firewood was worked up too and left for the next hiker or hunter who needs a warm shelter. Most of the group stayed overnight at the nearby Shelter where they heard bears hooting in the vicinity during the night. [LT News. Feb. 1969]
