Harvard Mountaineering Club. Most of the Club’s effort during 1962 was devoted to the construction of a log cabin on Mount Washington. The old cabin in Tuckerman Ravine had been scheduled for replacement for several years because of its age and easy accessibility to irresponsible visitors. As the Club’s winter activities center around the excellent ice climbing in Huntington Ravine, we decided to locate the new cabin there, about 1000 feet below timberline. In March a fund drive and preliminary design plans were begun, and with customary undergraduate enthusiasm and optimism we scheduled rough completion at the end of a long work party in June. A survey on June 20 showed the volunteers only a cleared site, foundations, and floor joists. Revised estimates then called for another two-week effort in September, just before school opened, and a professional carpenter was found who was willing to walk the two miles up to the cabin and not return to civilization every night. His skill, good humor, and untiring labor proved of the highest quality, and after 13 long, rainy days we found the basic log structure completed. Finally after several other weekend work parties the job was completed with such success that during Christmas vacation several members were comfortable during -35° temperatures and heavy snows.

During the summer members were active throughout the Western Hemisphere. Boyd Everett and Hank Abrons participated in the first ascent of the Southeast Spur of Mount McKinley. Adams Carter, Richard Goody, and John Humphreys spent three weeks climbing in Peru. Others climbed in British Columbia, Colorado, and the Tetons, which are by far the most popular HMC climbing ground.

The spring and fall brought delightful weekends of climbing in the Shawangunks, the White Mountains, and the quarries. Our annual winter attempt to traverse the Presidential Range between semesters brought out 14 people, who, unfortunately, were repelled by poor conditions and abominable weather. The ice climbers regularly ascended the gullies of Huntington Ravine and Mount Washington during February, March, and April, and a number of people were introduced to this phase of mountaineering. The 1962 climbing season ended during the last week of December, when Dave Roberts, Don Jensen, and Bert Redmayne visited the Sangre de Cristo Range in Colorado and in cold, clear weather succeeded in climbing Crestone Needle and Humboldt Peak, both over 14,000 feet, and several lesser summits.

Edward C. Carman, President