Yale Mountaineering Club. The winter of 1961 saw several trips to the White Mountains for climbing in Tuckerman and Huntington Ravines, mostly of a training nature to provide experience to new members. During the spring there was the usual concentration on weekends at the Shaw- angunks, but all our members practiced at two local areas, Ragged Mountain and Sleeping Giant State Park. In the early summer a trip to the White Mountains was unavoidably cut short after the ascent of the Whitney- Gilman route. During the summer members managed to spread themselves out over the West, the Alps and Alaska. Rob Symonds and Rod Bronson spent two weeks of concentrated climbing in Switzerland. Robert Held and I passed a week north of Gannett Peak in the Wind River Mountains and made several new routes, before joining Adams Carter to help with his group just south of Gannett. After summer jobs a significant number of us convened in the Tetons for two weeks. On the way home we delayed a day to do the Durrance route on the Devils Tower. In the fall again the Club found itself with a small nucleus of experienced climbers faced with the load of enthusiastic and time-demanding beginners.

Theodore Streibert, President