Mazamas. The climbing program in the Mazamas continued its expansion as it has each year since the war. There were 770 individual ascents—more than any previous year, and no accidents. The club’s climbing school expanded to an average attendance of 200 at each of the indoor sessions. The annual outing was held at Lake O’Hara in the Canadian Rockies. The weather on the outing cooperated until there were 90 individual ascents, including two climbs of Mt. Victoria led by Joe Leuthold. The climbers’ outing was held at Cascade Pass in Washington. Since the one-week trip did not allow the climbers to ascend everything in sight, they will return the first week of August 1956. During the outing, there were one first ascent and one second ascent on East Triplett, originally climbed by Fred Beckey. Joe Quigley and Gordon Renard made the first ascent of an unnamed peak (ca. 7,000 feet), located at the end of the valley east of the pass and next to Magic Mountain. The climbing season ended with a glacier rescue school held at Cloud Gap Inn and Eliot Glacier on Mount Hood, with lots of cooperation with the Hood River Crag Rats.

John Biewener, Climbing Committee Chairman