With the Outing Club

Spring trips, new Smart's Mountain Cabin, D. O. C. trails handbook, reforestation, faculty hikes, intercollegiate D. O. C. hikes, and a fire brigade seem to keep the Outing Club in action this spring. Nine members of the faculty led by two Cabin and Trail students hiked around Franconia Notch for two days, climbing and sitting on the forehead of the Old Man of the Mountain, travelling the beautiful Franconia Knife-Edge trail, climbing up to Lonesome Lake, exploring Lost River.

Three thousand trees were planted on the Happy Hill tract and the Outing Club, finding blister rust attacking the farmers near Happy Hill, took lessons from a government expert and staged a counter attack on gooseberry bushes. Meanwhile a drought throughout New Hampshire prevented Outing Club hikes from leaving Hanover. The formation of an emergency forest fire fighting unit in Cabin and Trail was organized and now if help is ever needed up or down the Connecticut, three cannon shots on the campus will release twenty-five fire fighters within ten minutes to render assistance. The Williams Outing Club came as guests of the D. O. C. and were carried off to one of the cabins, thence next morning to two days of hiking in the Presidentials.