THE MOUNTAINEER 
Vou. III SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER, 1910 
OBJECTS OF OUR CLUB. 
By Epmonp S. MEany. 
President of The Mountaineers Club. 
The Mountaineers Club was organized to climb mountains. 
That fact is implied in its name. Every summer the big an- 
nual outing is conducted as carefully planned during the pre- 
ceding winter. The four annual outings have been successes 
on an increasing and encouraging scale—the Olympic Moun- 
tains Outing of 1907; Mount Baker, 1908; Mount Rainier, 
1909; and Glacier Peak, 1910. The men and women who par- 
ticipated in one or more of these outings and who ascended 
these great peaks under the banner of our club exceed two 
hundred in number. 
The above brief and truthful statement would probably 
suffice for the ordinary person’s conception of The Moun- 
taineers Club and its objects. But that statement falls far 
short of conveying an adequate idea of the objects of our club. 
In the first place, The Mountaineers Club comprises four 
hundred men and women who love the mountains. They also 
love the forests and valleys, the rivers, lakes and the bound- 
less sea, they love the trees and flowers, the birds and animals, 
they love the beauties and wonders of nature, among which 
the mountains seem but one sublime manifestation. By seek- 
ing the joy of seeing and knowing these beauties they gladly 
turn and point the way for thousands of their fellows to see 
and know in pure and endless joy. 
This is a new country. It abounds in a fabulous wealth 
of scenic beauty. It is possible to so conserve parts of that 
wealth that it may be enjoyed by countless generations through 
the centuries to come as well as by countless individuals of the 
present generation who have not learned the way to the hills. 
This club is vigilant for a wise conservation and it is also 
anxious to blaze ways into the hills that anyone may follow. 
