Notes from Dartmouth-at-Moosilauke
THERE IS A very definite touch of fall in the air and for the first time since the snow left we have had to light a fire in the big living room stove. Our summer crew has gone back to College, the stream of visitors has temporarily diminished and, left alone, we are busy making plans for the fall and winter season. With five fat ducklings and three young roosters getting fatter daily in our chicken coop, a vegetable cellar stocked with home- grown produce, we are ready for the wise ones who head for the Mountain on crisp fall days.
The summer was most successful both in the matter o£ work completed and in the number of people who visited the camp. A crew of eight undergraduates cut our huge wood supply for next winter, built a small two-room cabin, and worked over the ski trails. On the side we found time to care for the visitors who arrived at all times of the day and night. Their appearance was always welcome and the greater the number the more enthusiastic the cooks who produced trays of cake, cookies, and Parker House rolls which were a wonder to behold.
Our summer visitors started with a group of intrepid 'isers who braved rain and a_ slippery trail for a brief look at the camp after the Commencement festivities. Led by J. C. Taft '14 they walked in, drank a- cup of tea and had us sign all sorts of legal affidavits to prove they had made the trip. In this pioneer group were W. C. Huntress '15, J. M. Henderson '15, Mr. and Mrs. Chandler Foster '15 and their two children Dorothy and Stephen, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Pope '20. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Snedecor '20 appeared the same evening and stayed for two days.
ALL THE WAY FROM CEYLON
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Braman '31 and Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Ames '25—the latter on a vacation from Colombo, Ceylon- were at the Ravine Camp to celebrate the Fourth of July and the second victory of the Dartmouth-at-Moosilauke Baseball Team over the local Warren Team. Over the week-end Jim Landauer '23 arrived with his two daughters Beverly and Barbara. They spent two days fishing and swimming in the pool as well as climbing the Mountain.
H. R. Hesse '18 spent ten days with us. He is almost a member of the family as he spent his vacation at the Ravine Camp last year as well. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Richardson '20 brought their boy who raced over the entrance trail to start fishing at the earliest possible moment.
Messrs. Halsey Edgerton '06 and Natt Emerson '00 made a tour of inspection during the summer. They not only walked the mile and a half into Camp, explored both practice slopes, but also climbed to the top of Moosilauke over Hell's Highway and went down the other side. Some recent alumni couldn't come up to that record!
The record for family attendance is held by the Emersons of Milford, New Hampshire, with three generations present at one time—Dean Emerson '14 with his two boys, Chic and Bill, their Grandfather C. S. Emerson of Milford, an uncle, Mark Emerson '25, and earlier in the summer a second uncle, Sumner Emerson '17—all visited the Camp.
Harry Sampson '20, A. W. Frey '20, H. V. Olsen '22 made the "grand tour." They lunched at the Ravine Camp, climbed to the summit via Hell's Highway, had dinner and spent the night on top, came down through Jobildunk Ravine where they inspected Jobildunk Cabin but didn't try the swimming pool! Back to the Ravine Camp through the big spruce forest and past the old deserted lumber camp No. 3. After eating lunch at the Ravine Camp they played deck tennis and went swimming in our pool before starting home.
Mutt Jennings '28 and Mrs. Jennings spent a night at the Camp to round out their vacation before going back to the city. Phil Morse '24 fished the river four or five times this summer and always got his limit. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Sanders '29, all the way from Minneapolis, and Bob Monahan '29 came to the Camp on their way to a Hutmasters Reunion on the Summit.
WOOD WORTHS DONORS OF SUMMIT
The visits of the Woodworth family were most interesting. E. K. Woodworth '97 told us what the Jobildunk and Gorge Brook region looked like fifty years ago. He had explored the Ravine and fished the River long before anyone else thought of coming in here. His cousin, a Miss Clement, told us of spending summers on the top of Moosilauke, and in those days they even kept a cow "on top." The Ravine Camp ducklings were as nothing compared to a mountain climbing cow. C. P. Woodworth '07 walked in for lunch with his two daughters and seemed very much interested in what was being done. Fifteen years ago the Woodworths gave the Summit Camp to the Outing Club.
Herbert Lord 'l6 visited Dartmouth-at- Moosilauke during August. Dean Bowler '15 and Bob McKennan '25 playing twenty-one for pennies with the undergraduate crews, found it so profitable that they stayed two nights.
Our prize visitors for the summer were Mr. James C. Davis Jr., aged eight-and-a- half and Miss Polly Davis who had just reached five. (Children of Jim and Mary Davis '19.) Jim and wife left these two to spend a week alone at the Ravine Camp where their appetities reached a new level in competition with the wood chopping crew. Jimmie is quite a carpenter and built a home for the ducks. Polly, an able cooperator, held boards to be sawed and praised the carpentering in loud clear tones. The high point of the week was a visit to Jobildunk Cabin. Jimmie climbed to the top of Moosilauke, his first mountain with Ford Sayre and ate lunch with the crew on top. Polly walked the two miles and a half to Jobildunk Cabin from the Ravine Camp with Peggy Sayre and the two parties met for supper and to spend the night on the spruce bough beds.
To answer the many queries about thiswinter's skiing: the crew has completed a beginners' practice slope adjacent to the Camp, has added two more miles of ski trail especially suited to the beginning and intermediate skiers, and has carefully gone over the trails already cut. The small cabin will be ready for winter and we have started on another slightly larger one to take care of the pressing demand for in- dividual rooms. Our ski schools start again this year beginning right after Christmas and continuing through January and February. We have scheduled several ski school week-ends as well as Alumni Car- nival. With the government building us a parking place and starting work on the entrance trail and a fair possibility of hav- ing a telephone, we are looking forward to and planning for a record year.
Youthful Guests At Dartmouth-at-Moosilauke were Jimmy and Polly Davis, children of Jim Davis '19.
