Harvard Mountaineering Club

Publication Year: 1971.

Harvard Mountaineering Club. Harvard Mountaineering Club climbers ranged over many parts of the country in search of good climbing again this year. At home, the club ran rock-climbing trips to the Shawangunks, Cannon Mountain, Cathedral and White Horse Ledges, and to various bouldering areas. Ice climbing activities focused in Huntington Ravine on Mount Washington. One group of hardy snowshoers braved traditionally bad weather to complete the annual winter traverse of the Presidential Range in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, while others were turned back by worse weather. During the summer, many members migrated west and ascended excellent routes in Yosemite and on Tahquitz Rock. A varying barrelful of climbers, including Scott Brim, Kevin Bein, Bob Harding, Al Rubin, and Rocky Keeler, stationed themselves in the Tetons for a large part of the summer, accomplishing a number of difficult and important ascents. Ad Carter and Bill Patterson climbed in Peru. One of the high points of the year followed the spring dinner, when over 330 people came to see Yvon Chouinard’s slides of ice climbing in the Sierra Nevada and his movie of the ascent of Fitzroy.

Adrian Juncosa, President