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We went on many hikes away from camp but there was so much 

 to learn about right around our own bungalows and tents that if 

 we return to Cowasset many summers we will always find new in- 

 spiration. 



The girls are wide awake to observe everything about them. 

 When they are swimming they find a fiddler or a horseshoe crab 

 and come running up to want to know all about it. When at Arts 

 and Crafts they notice that the logs of the crafts bungalow are 

 stuffed with moss. They discover it is peat moss. What is its 

 history and usage? 



After rest hour many girls can be seen in the grove looking for 

 new specimens and before warning bells will have added many to 

 their lists. 



So I consider that nature can not be set down for a certain few 

 hours during the week but if the girls are interested they will 

 be constantly on the lookout for the wonderful things that they 

 can see no matter where they are. If a nature councilor has arous- 

 ed that interest I think she will feel that her summer has not been 

 in vain. 



The Mt. Washington Trip 



Olivia J. Church 



Camp Allegro, Madison, N. H. 



During the summer of 1921 a party of fifteen girls and councilors 

 from Camp Allegro staited on a three day hike to Mt. Washington. 



We went by machines to the foot of Tuckerman's Ravine and 

 at noon started our climb. As we left the forest behind us, we saw 

 ahead the apparently perpendicular wall of the ravine. We could 

 see nothing beyond and were disappointed for a minute, thinking 

 we beheld the peak of Mt. Washington. We exclaimed, "It is 

 so straight! How can we ever get to the top!" But our hike 

 master assured us that it was by no means as precipitous as it 

 looked so after a light lunch by a cold stream, we started on again 

 discovering just enough perilous spots to give us the much de- 

 sired thrills. 



The cold mountain wind had sprung up now and it was growing 

 late, so we took the trail to the "Lake of The Clouds Hut," where 



