Outing Club Notes
Towards the end of the summer, beginning on August 18, the Outing Club is offering a special program of trips visiting the less frequented and more beautiful spots in the White Mountains, and one trip to Katahdin in Maine. Alumni are urged to get in touch with Dick Sanders at Glencliff, N. H., before August 1 if the urge is strong enough and if they find it possible to get back once more to the Hill Winds of New Hampshire. The trips are to leave Moosilauke summit on August 18-23, and September 7 and will be open to Outing Club members and their friends under the leadership of well-known undergraduate Cabin and Trail men. They will be made in Outing Club style completely on foot with the exception of the visit to Katahdin in Maine which will be approached by car. Moosilauke, in each case, will be the base for both the start and finish.
In addition to these scheduled trips arrangements can be made for a trip of any length up the D. O. C. Cabin Chain with or without Cabin and Trail leadership, as is desirable, by communicating with R. B. Sanders, Glencliff, N. H.
The group hiking from Moosilauke on August 18 with Dick Sanders plans to return the 21st after going over Lost River, The Kinsrttans, The Cannon Balls, Cannon Mountain and Franconia Range.
The second trip will start from Moosilauke on August 23 with Bill Dodge in charge and hike to Agassiz Cabin, then by the North Fork of the Pemigewasset River and by the Ethan Pond, Thoreau Falls and views of Saco Valley, spending a day and a half in the lower Presidential and Lakes of the Clouds Hut and starting back for Moosilauke the 28th.
The third trip will be under the leadership of Hal Leich and will ride from Glencliff to Moosehead Lake, camping there the first night and making Katahdin the next day. There the group plans to suit the owner's convenience and to do unlimited fishing, canoeing, and hiking around Katahdin.
A series of similar trips organized by the Outing Club has never been offered before and the dates bear noting, especially by old Cabin and Trail men, for they present a threefold opportunity, first of visiting the Moosilauke Summit Camp which undoubtedly has become the center of D. O. C. summer activities; second, a chance to get into some of the finest country; and finally the company will be composed chiefly of former Cabin and Trail men.
Moosilauke Summit Camp, with Dick Sanders as hutmaster, Andy Boyce, Bill Bragner, and Bill Dodge on top, will open June 15 and it is rumored that the total number of visitors will be around three thousand this summer. This is the eighth year of the D. O. C. management and the 68th anniversary of the old Summit House. The record crowd entertained in one night was made in 1922 by Bob Morgan's crew when they fed and sheltered one hundred and forty-seven.
The Outing Club has run an extensive series of spring mountain climbing trips this year. At least one and sometimes two groups have left Hanover of a weekend and sometimes Tuesday afternoons for some of the surrounding hills. Among the mountains visited have been Sunapee, Chocorua, Smart's, Ascutney, Southern Kearsarge, Cardigan, Black, Mansfield, and Franconia. A new wrinkle was introduced into the program by inaugurating a mounted trip to Cube and was successful enough to be scheduled on the next season's program.
During the period of great fire hazard in May an emergency signal was arranged which made it possible to call out fire-fighters in the event of a dangerous conflagration. Tools were kept in readiness at some of the cabins, but the opportunity to exercise the system was not offered. However, the organization will remain intact and Cabin and Trail will be on emergency call for any unforseen situation of the future.
J. K. Sullivan '25 has been in town lately picking up the strands of the comptroller's position which he will take over next September.
Charley Proctor returned the thirteenth of April on the Leviathan after representing the U. S. A. in the Olympic Ski Competitions. He spent an interesting trip abroad after the games visiting Murren as the guest of Arnold Lunn, the father of the Ski Club of Great Britain; St. Anton, the ski center of the Arlberg, Austria, Munich, Germany, where he was entertained by relatives and friends of Jerry Raab, recreational ski coach in Hanover this winter, Kitzbuhel, Austria, and Silvretta, near the Swiss border, where he stayed a month in some huts maintained by the Austrian Alpine Club.
Dr. J. A. Wiborn, Med. Scb. '97 and the salmon that won for him the presidency of the Tyee Club of British Columbia
