Mazamas. During the year The Mazamas of Portland, Oregon, started 128 climbs on 45 different peaks in their regular climbing schedule. In addition, club outings added many new peaks to the collective mountaineering experience of The Mazamas. The gross result was about 2000 individual ascents in 1967.

An outing led by John Neal to remote Buck Creek Pass in the Washington Cascades gave us a look at new peaks in a new area. Another outing was held in the Snoqualmie Pass area, where in recent years the beautiful collection of small peaks has greatly risen in the favor of Mazama climbers. Carmie Dafoe led the annual outing to Glacier Park in the Selkirk Range of British Columbia. We were successful on Sir Donald, Uto Peak, Avalanche, Abbott, Rogers, Catamount, Afton, Castor, The Dome, The Rampart, Pollux, Leda, and Cheops. The club visited a new area in the Methow Valley in the northeastern Cascades of Washington. Up Early Winters Creek from the old and miniscule settlement of Mazama, we made our first climb of Silver Star, which opened vistas of peaks yet to come such as Kangaroo Ridge, Liberty Bell, and Cutthroat Peak.

The climbing program suffered two fatal accidents this year. Elmer McCormick slipped and fell from ledges on Raborback Spire in the Cashmere Crags in Washington. Mike Boyko is believed to have lost control while glissading the Sitkum Glacier on Glacier Peak.

The annual banquet featured a film and lecture by Nick Clinch on the outstanding Antarctic expedition which he led this past winter. James Angell was elected to succeed Clint Harrington as club president, and John Salisbury took over the chairmanship of the climbing committee from Jack Grauer.

Jack Grauer