A.A.C., Cascade Section. Three outstanding personalities of the mountaineering world visited us this year, and all gave marvelously narrated lectures to large audiences. Eric Shipton talked of his Patagonia Icecap explorations; Arnold Lunn spoke on the origin and growth of skiing and ski racing; and Gaston Rébuffat showed his beautiful films of climbing in the Swiss Alps. Three business meetings were held during the year. A committee, chairmanned by George Sainsbury, has started work on a revised edition of A Climber’s Guide to the Cascade and Olympic Mountains of Washington. Publication probably will not be until late 1968.

Vic Josendal travelled to Vermont for the Club’s October Board of Directors meeting by way of Africa; what wonderful nonsense! Four of our members participated in the successful ascent of Mount Vinson (16,860 feet) in Antarctica on December 21. Our special congratulations to Pete Schoening, Eiichi Fukushima, Brian Marts, and Dick Wahlstrom for this great accomplishment.

Kenn Carpenter, Chairman