A.A.C., Rocky Mountain Section. This section, composed of members in the six mountain states, now numbers more than 100. Our chief activity for the year was hosting the Club’s annual meeting, which was held on December 6 at Boulder, Colorado. Many of us under the direction of Harold Walton as general chairman worked throughout much of the year planning for this meeting. It was attended by almost half of our own section, and we were delighted to see many climbers from the East, California, and the Pacific Northwest. More than 100 members and about 165 guests attended the annual banquet. We had one section dinner during the year, held in November in honor of President Clinch, at which Dave Roberts showed his slides of the first ascent of Mount Igikpak in the Brooks Range of Alaska in August 1968.

During 1969 Dave Roberts made five ascents among the Arrigetch Peaks in the Brooks Range, including what is probably the highest of these peaks. He also made a new route on the north face of Mount Temple in the Canadian Rockies with Henry Abrons and Dennis Eberl. Ascents by Don Liska and George Lowe in the Hindu Kush with other AAC members led by Richard Hechtel and climbs in the Tetons of Wyoming were described at the Club’s annual meeting. Harold Walton participated as assistant leader of the Iowa Mountaineers Peruvian expedition. He climbed Atunmonte- puncu (5415 meters) and Maparaju (5326 meters) and attempted Pucaranra (6147 meters). On that attempt, led by AAC member Jim Moore, the party approached the mountain from the south but was unable to find a way through the crevasses in the upper part of the glacier. Harold Goodro and Gene and Betsy White led ropes on Huascarán. The 23 expedition members were by far the largest group ever to climb Peru’s highest peak in one operation.

John L. J. Hart, Chairman