74 The Mountaineer 
NOTES OF OTHER CLUBS. 
There are in this country four well established mountain clubs, 
and one in Canada: The Appalachian of Boston, the Sierras of San 
Francisco, the Mazamas of Portland, the Mountaineers of Seattle and 
the Canadian Alpine Club of Banff. The time is appropriate for these 
clubs to be informed of each others plans and accomplishments. It is 
suggested for the following issues of The Mountaineer that each of 
these clubs be asked to contribute a short, broad article on their last 
year’s record and the coming year’s purposes. Such articles would 
stimulate new ideas, incite new activities, disseminate information 
and enliven our community of interests. There is every reason why 
all of these clubs should be in sufficient accord to act with the force 
of one body on subjects of common interest. If these clubs were or- 
ganized for joint team work the results of such focal action would be 
clearly more telling. Such subjects as the destruction of the Hetch 
Hetchy valley, the construction of road-ways around Mt. Rainier, the 
Appalachian Forest Reserve, the regulation of forest fires and other 
legislation vital to the conservation of natural beauties as well as to 
the conservation of natural resources could be more certainly aided. 
To advance the relations between these clubs the yearly publication 
of each club could be forwarded to the principal officers of each other 
club. It is certain that an exchange of yearly stereopticon lectures 
would enliven mutual interest. Possibly the best acquaintance would 
be gotten by each club sending a delegate to the yearly outing of the 
other clubs. Last year twenty well known guests made the trip 
from six countries of Europe to the Rockies as invited guests to the 
yearly outing of the Canadian Alpine Club. The Appalachian Club 
also sent an accredited guest to the Canadian Alpine Club in the per- 
son of Mr. B. F. Seavers. 
In order to initiate this excellent custom with the Mountaineers 
it is sugegsted that invitations be sent at least to each of the Pacific 
Coast clubs urging them to send an official guest to the next year’s 
Outing to Mount Adams. ACuEa Ar 
The Sierra Club Bulletin of January, 1910, contains much of per- 
manent interest and worth. An illustrated article on “The Observatory 
on Mt. Whitney,” by Alexander McAdie, after recording the trip up 
and the results of observation or Mars ends with this 
strong paragraph: “In the second of these memory 
pictures there moves a solitary figure, strolling leis- 
urely near the summit as the summer night falls. Neither night nor 
fear daunt him. Self-reliant and indifferent to what may befall so far 
from human help, he wanders where his fancy leads, free as the air 
around him. Unlike the rest of us, he courts not the comforting sup- 
The Sierra 
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