Iowa Mountaineers. The club completed another active year in 1985 with membership at 1000. Over 300 members participated in one of the various instructional courses, the mountaineering camps, or the foreign expeditions that were one to four weeks in length. The courses and mountaineering camps were again offered for University of Iowa credit, if desired. Under the instruction of Jim and John Ebert, 50 members finished the concentrated one-week basic rock-climbing courses at Devils Lake State Park, Wisconsin, and 75 completed the weekend rock-climbing courses offered to University of Iowa students. Three general weekend outings were held at Devils Lake with an average attendance of 70.

In January 23 members joined in a seven-day cross-country skiing trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with Mike Bogart and Jenny Hall as leaders. In January and March Jim Ebert, Mike Stoll, and Buck and A.J. Howery led over 70 members on two week-long Grand Canyon hiking trips. In June the club offered an intermediate rock-climbing course at Devils Tower in Wyoming. Over 32 manned ascents were made on the tower by two different routes. Twenty of the 22 course participants reached the summit.

In July, John and Jim Ebert led a group of 46 to East Africa. Twenty-eight out of 34 ascended Kilimanjaro in nearly perfect weather. The group then toured the major game parks in Kenya and Tanzania. Our group was one of the last to enjoy the low national park fees in Tanzania before they were increased significantly. During July the club held a two-week mountaineering camp in Banff National Park in Canada. Eighty-five members attended, and over 210 manned ascents were made on 11 peaks. The best six weeks of weather in the Canadian Rockies for years ended just two days before our camp started. The weather during the entire camp was wet and snowy.

During July 1986 the club will return to Peru to ascend peaks in the Que- brada Quilcayhuanca and later to ascend Nevado Huascarán. In July and August the club will sponsor an intermediate rock-climbing course at Devils Tower, a basic snow and ice course in the Northwest, and a basic mountaineering course in the San Juans in Colorado. The official two-week summer camp will be in the Farnham Creek area of British Columbia August 5-15.

Jim Ebert, Vice President