Ravine Lodge Nears Completion
NEARING COMPLETION as this issues goes to press, the Main Lodge will be the focal point of activity at the new Ravine Camp, which is opening this month. Here at the close of a memorable day's skiing, hiking, or fishing, the guest will find a hearty appetizing meal served up by Ross McKenney and his crew.
Though the new Camp will be open to the public, it is intended primarily to furnish the hub for Dartmouth's mountain campus where Dartmouth men young and old may go with their friends and families for a wilderness holiday or vacation. Ross, with a wealth of lore of the woods at his fingertips, has an ability to weave a stimulating spell about contact with the out-of-doors. Chatting by the huge firesides, lifting loud some of the old melodies, or abandoning themselves to a rollicking square dance, Dartmouth visitors to the Camp will find a rare opportunity to refresh old College friendships and to develop new ones with other alumni and undergraduates. The mountain headquarters are just enough isolated from the mad skiing mob by its smooth three-quarter-mile entrance trail, so that it will doubtless possess the friendly informal flavor which characterized the previous Dartmouth-at-Moosilauke development.
Despite the consistent and increasingly vehement opposition of the weather, Ross and his Warren, N. H., crew have forged ahead to convert from a dream to realization the completion of all of the initial units of the plant for use this winter. Because of the difficulties of excavating for and installing central heating and complete hot and cold plumbing facilities, the Main Lodge has been protracted into the last item on the construction program. When it opens in February it will contain the living and dining facilities and the adjoining manager's quarters, kitchen and crew quarters on the main floor. In the basement will be a comfortable ski room with a huge fireplace as well as the de luxe accommodations for eight persons and the wash rooms which include hot and cold showers. From the windows of the main room and ski room as shown in the picture above, the whole mountain-top panorama will spread out.
Also in the above picture can be seen the combined engine house and shop where electricity for the entire plant is generated. The main sleeping accommodations are in the bunkhouse fifty yards away which holds 32 people spaciously within its warm log walls. The foot of Hell's Highway is just opposite the Camp and the new novice practice slope is within a stone's throw of the bunkhouse.
