With the D.O.C.
WHILE trips are routine for Cabin and Trail, it is not every fall program that can boast of the construction of a cabin in addition to an active trips program. While work went steadily forward on the new Moose Mountain Cabin, trips left Robinson Hall for Franconia, Moosilauke and the Vermont cabins and two treeplanting trips went to the College Grant. The Sunday Morning Strolling Society has been out nearly every weekend, climbing Mt. Washington and crossing the Pemigewassett Wilderness among lesser accomplishments.
At the present writing, Moose Cabin stands with three sides up. Under the capable direction of Al Blomquist '51 and with the technical advice of Ted Hunter '38 and Ross McKenney construction has gone forward by leaps and bounds of late and it is hoped that the first snow will find a roof sheltering the cabin. Designed for a feed cabin, with accommodations for small skiing parties in the kitchen, the cabin will replace Bull Moose which collapsed two years ago under the weight of an excessive snow cover. The area around the cabin has potentialities for further development from the standpoint of both skiing and hiking. Only eight miles from Hanover, it is the site of "Doc" Griggs' strawberry shortcake feeds as well as the site of the first DOC Cabin, Calf Moose. The construction of this cabin brings the total number now maintained by Cabin and Trail to sixteen.
TREE PLANTERS GIVE UP HOLIDAY
On the College Grant two weekend treeplanting expeditions managed to plant something over seven thousand trees in the old Alder Brook burn. Led by Robert S. Monahan '29, College Forester, and Doug Wade, College Naturalist, a group of ten undergraduates spent the long Harvard weekend wielding "spuds" and stamping the earth firmly around the roots of four thousand red pine seedlings and one thousand spruce seedlings. The following week saw ten more students planting the remainder of the trees. In all some fifteen acres were reseeded and, it is hoped, put back into the production of lumber after a lag of twenty-five years.
While this is not the first time reforestation has been practised on the Grant, it is the first time students have been asked to participate in any practical forestry on College-owned lands. It is hoped that in the future it will be possible to run other similar trips. The value of these opportunities to get into the field with such men as Doug Wade and Bob Monahan should not be overlooked. In offering such opportunities, Dartmouth is unique.
Temporarily eclipsed by these larger undertakings, smaller but no less important trips sought their way every week out into the hills, to the cabins, to the Presidentials, to the Franconias and to Moose Mountain. A cabins trip found time during the fall to give Franconia Cabin a new coat of fresh green paint. One weekend saw an lOCA trip using Armington and another saw the trails department working on the Moose Mountain trail in anticipation of the increased popularity of the mountain upon the completion of the new cabin. In all this storm of activity, Cabin and Trail found time recently to give six new members a rousing good welcome with a supper at Oak Hill Cabin.
TREES FOR THE DARTMOUTH GRANT: Over 7,000 red pine and spruce seedlings were planted by student crws during two weekends this fall, covering 15 acres of the Alder Brook Burn devastatedby fire 25 years ago. Above is part of the crew that worked there Harvard weekend, with Howard L. Richmond '50, varsity hockey star, and "Liz", his bride of three weeks, shown in the foreground.
