WITH THE OUTING CLUBS

Mount Moosilauke served as the center of activity for the D. O. C.'s busiest summer in many a year. Due to the work of the three undergraduate crews, the summit crew, the trail crew, and the Ravine Camp crew, the recreational resources of the mountain were made more available to devotees of the New Hampshire hills.

The Tip-Top House finished one of the most successful seasons it has had in the past six years. The crew, with L. G. Rockwell '35 as hutmaster, and assistants, W. S. Curtis '36 and R. P. Sawyer '37, worked from sunup to sundown in order to get the weatherbeaten old house shipshape and shining for the influx of summer climbers. Approximately twenty-five camps sent groups to spend a night on the mountain, and all carried away pleasant memories of Dartmouth hospitality and good food. July Fourth marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the opening of the summit house and the fifteenth year of the D.O.C.'s regime. Despite the extremely cold weather which was found on top, several hutmen from Mount Washington managed to get up the "old hill" for the anniversary banquet. Radio contact was made with Mount Washington, with the cooperation of the Observatory there, and congratulations midst the static were forthcoming. The evening was climaxed by a special display of fireworks which were subsequently reported visible as far as forty miles away. On September eighth the summit crew nailed the last shutter to the house—the short summer season was closed—but twenty-two hundred people had signed the log.

The trail crew composed of R. W. Hube '35 and M. A. Cartwright '37 concentrated its efforts on improving and stocking the D. O. C. chain of sixteen cabins. Constructing a porch on Franconia Cabin was the major improvement of the summer. This cabin, once a pump house for the old Profile Hotel, was moved in 1930 to its present location on the east shore of Echo Lake and needed some improvement to make it worthy of its new situation. With the addition of this porch, Franconia Cabin can now be considered one of the most attractive cabins of the chain, and due to its proximity to the newly developed ski terrain in the notch, it is expected to be one of the most popular.

Franconia's Latest The new porch built by trail crew during summer on Echo Lake cabin.