Dartmouth Mountaineering Club

Publication Year: 1962.

Dartmouth Mountaineering Club. The 1961 climbing season started in February and March with ice climbing and ski traverses in the White Mountains. Spring brought the usual rock climbing in New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York at such areas as Whitehorse and Cathedral Ledges, Owl’s Head, Franconia and Crawford Notches, Po-Ko-Moonshine, and the ’Gunks. Aerial photos and color slides were taken of the various climbing areas in New Hampshire for eventual use in a rock climbing guide to New England climbing areas which the club is currently preparing. Anyone with information pertinent to technical climbing in Vermont, New Hampshire, and northern New York, particularly regarding new routes and new climbing areas, would help greatly by sending such information to the club at 23 Robinson Hall, Hanover, New Hampshire.

In the summer DMC members and alumni climbed in various parts of the West. Bill Briggs made a ski descent of Mount Rainier; Jake Breitenbach was on Mount Steele in the Yukon; Pete Sinclair and Sterling Neale were climbing rangers in the Tetons; and Breitenbach, Barry Corbet, and Bob French guided for the Exum Guide Service in the Tetons. Other climbs were made and several new routes placed in the Wind Rivers of Wyoming by several parties which included Will Bassett, George Billings, Mac Magary, and Rick Medrick. Reports also reached us of alumni members Chris Wren and Carlos Plummer climbing in Japan and Korea and Barry Bishop participating in the first ascent of challenging Ama Dablam in the Himalayas.

The fall was devoted mainly to rock climbing instruction in conjunction with the recently re-instated physical education rock climbing program. Much time has also been devoted to the 1962 DMC Journal which should be available in May, 1962. This year has marked the 25th anniversary of the club’s founding; we look forward to the many more to come.

George Billings, President