With the Outing Club
The job at the beginning of the college year is to introduce the freshmen to the Dartmouth Outing Club. On D.O.C. Night, D. P. Hatch '28, comptroller, R. P. Goldthwait '33, chairman of the council, E. S. Lord '33, winter sports manager, and R. W. Burbank '33 spoke to a group of freshmen on the history, organization, and general activities of the club. Movies of the Moosilauke Down-mountain Race and the Senior Mt. Washington trip were shown, much to the amusement of the freshmen, most of whom have never seen real skiing.
The important event of the fall for the freshmen was the Moose Cabin Feed, when more than a hundred prospective outing-clubbers and thirty-five members of Cabin and Trail met, for the first party of its kind held in recent years. The freshmen were divided into groups with a Cabin and Trail man in charge of each group. J. A. Titcomb '32 and J. H. Feth '34 took a gang over to the back side of the mountain to work on the shelter there, and put it in shape for the winter. A. E. MacGregor '34 and his crew cleared bushes from the old North Ridge Trail and blazed it with the usual red and white marker of the D.O.C. D. Kirkham '33 put on a miniature logging bee and showed the freshmen how it's done up in the Maine woods. The climax of the day was a roast-beef dinner with all the trimmings, put on by R. W. Burbank and his husky crew of cooks.
Another arduous fall task is the membership drive which this year is under the joint leadership of D. G. Allen '34 and S. B. Dunn '34. The sale of memberships the first week of college netted over three hundred members. The regular drive came in the middle of October and will continue until Christmas time. This year the membership carries with it not only the privileges of the club, but also allows the member a reduction on outdoor equipment prices at certain stores in Hanover, and tickets to the carnival events.
During the summer, activities went on much as usual. D. G. Allen '34 was in charge of the trail crew, and E. B. Jump '32 was hutmaster on Moosilauke. The trail crew did not make any radical changes in the cabins during the summer, but did the usual cleaning and repairing job. Skyline Cabin was closed and equipment was taken out of it and distributed among the other cabins in the chain. It was felt that there was not sufficient demand to warrant maintaining the cabin under present conditions. E. B. Jump '32 laid plans for a complete water system on Moosilauke. He installed two large galvanized iron tanks to catch the rain water from the roof; this water is used for all purposes except for drinking. Pure water is obtained in the spring about two hundred yards from the house. He also laid an effective sewer with the drain running into the thick brush at the tip of Jobildunk.
Bill Emerson '34 and John Roberts '34 cut a trail from the Jobildunk cabin to the summit of Moosilauke. The trail follows up the floor of the ravine through the hard wood growth, then cuts sharply up the East Ridge, and follows the ridge to the summit. This trail furnishes a new approach to the mountain, and it opens up to more hikers the wild country in Jobildunk Ravine.
Earlier in the fall the Intercollegiate Outing Club Association, formed last spring at a conference on Moosilauke, held its first college week in the mountains with the Great Gulf on the north side of Mt. Washington as its base. There were nearly 40 students representing nine institutions who enjoyed a week of nearly perfect mountain weather. Practically the whole Presidential Range was covered, and one party visited the caves at the foot of Carter Dome in the Carter-Moriah Range.
