With the Outing Club

(The Summer program)

Within a short time the college will have finished another year, and most of the campus organizations will cease to function until September, but the Outing Club is past the stage where it operates only nine months out of every twelve. Its activity now goes on continuously.

For those undergraduates and alumni who pass through Hanover during the summer months, the Outing Club House on Occom Pond remains open for meal service as well as for a headquarters where keys to the cabins on the chain may be obtained. All of the club equipment will be available for any who desire a tramp through the woods or spend a comfortable night in a cabin. The trails have been extended during the past year, and the new shelter chain is rapidly taking shape so that anyone wishing a real out-of-doors trip may make use of one of the several shelters which are now finished.

Then there is Mt. Moosilauke, an Outing Club stronghold, atop of which Joe Robinson '32, hutmaster, will open the summit house for its 12th season on June 15. From June until September 7, Joe and his crew, consisting of Ford Sayre '33, Brad Hill '34 and Dick Banfield '34 will be ready to entertain one arid all who may scramble up the mountain by way of the Beaver Brook trail with its tumbling cascades, from Glencliffe, along the Carriage Road or by any route which they may see fit to take. New improvements are being planned, and Joe, who has for three summers been host to literally thousands of campers and vacationists will stand ready to take care of the hungry and tired horde with the simple remedies of bountiful food and warm beds. Ford Sayre, who will be with him, is spending his second year as part of the crew, while Banfield, one of the promising freshman football players, and Hill have been selected to complete the crew which is greater by one man than that which operated the Summit Camp during one of its most successful seasons last summer.

In Jobildunk Ravine, only a short distance from the Summit Camp, Warren Braley '33 will be encamped. His task will be one of building the latest addition to the D. 0. C. cabin. A site has already been chosen in a tract of virgin forest in one of the most isolated spots on the mountain, and the first steps toward the erection of the cabin have already been taken. Due to .the distance from any road or village practically no materials except cement necessary for the foundation and fireplace will be brought into the site. The cabin will be constructed entirely of logs, and will be large enough to accomodate a party of eight.

Smart's mountain will be the scene of more building activity. Here Al Gerould '32 will stay while finishing the construction of a new cabin to take the place of the present one on the mountain top. The cabin now being used is a small one, orginally used in the forest service by the fire lookout, and it is considered too small for the purposes of the D. O. C. A new site, with perhaps the best view of any on the chain, has been chosen and work here has already gone forward to a place where the first logs of the walls are in place. Before the summer is over Al plans to have the work entirely finished.

At the beginning of August, Jack Titcomb '32 returns from England to finish one of the new shelters which he as director of the shelter cabin has a particular interest in seeing completed before fall.

Perhaps most important of all, though less spectacular, is the work which the Summer Trails crew, consisting of Charlie Roberts '31 and Don Allen '34, will have in charge. The task of these men is to visit every cabin and make necessary repairs and alterations, leave supplies, and generally put the entire equipment in the best of shape. Odd jobs of carpentry, cleaning and washing of the cabins, painting, cleaning of blankets, digging new garbage pits, and cutting wood are only a few of the jobs which fall to their lot. Some of the repairs contemplated for this summer are large enough to necessitate closing several of the cabins for a short time, but this should not interfere with parties who plan to make trips in the D. 0. C. territory. Cube cabin is to have new shingles and a coat of stain, Agassiz, wallboard and fireplace repairs; Newton and Skyline new floors, not to mention a long list of other jobs which will be undertaken on all of the cabins.

You see, this Outing Club business has become quite a thing. And after all there is really no reason why the members of the club should desert New England just because there are no classes to hold them. Summer months offer an opportunity for old-timers in the club and for those who did not take advantage of it in their undergraduate days to renew their acquaintance with Dartmouth men and with an organization that feels itself to be a pretty vital part of the College. June means a farewell to an outgoing senior class but a welcome to many who will return for a visit, and the Outing Club is prepared to greet its old friends.