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be an extract from the minutes of the Mountaineers’ Main Camp this 
summer. 
The Bulletin records the club’s “Memorial Day Excursion” of five 
days. Thirty-nine Bostonians made the party. “After lunch we 
started for the top,’ quoting the Bulletin, “‘and past another spring 
where we found a few arbutus blossoms beneath the logs.” Surely 
our own Hidelweiss Committee will soon bring to this, the sunset side 
of the Cascades, this most modest flower, known to romance and story 
as the queen of the kingdom of flowers, so that we too may be lead 
to the top and past refreshing springs in quest of this delicate and 
retiring fragrance of the open woods. 
The Appalachian “August Camp” evidently corresponding to the 
Mountaineers’ Annual Outing, lasted fifteen days, was pitched in the 
Maine woods and was attended by forty-two members. “The weather 
was unfortunate—heavy showers with much thunder at night. The 
brooks and the river were well filled with water, new cataracts de- 
veloped on the sides of Jefferson and the trails and paths became 
very muddy.” By contrast this again shows nature’s bounty to the 
climbers of the most Western mountains. 
An “Autumn Excursion” lasting ten days and to be composed of 
about ten members and friends is announced. In the ‘Labor Day Ex- 
cursion”’ to have lasted five days, reference is made to visiting two of 
tue club’s properties. 
Their “Natural History Walks” correspond to our Local Walks, ex- 
cept they are scheduled for every Saturday afternoon. The Appa- 
lachians with their large membership consider a party of a dozen 
sufficient for maintaining local walks. 
From the Evening Bulletin of Honolulu of April 8, 1910, we learn 
of an organization in the Hawaiian Islands similar in purpose to our 
own. This is the Trail and Travel Club which is “trying to better 
conditions of living in the islands, by conserving 
and making usable the magnificent natural scen- 
ery of trail, valley and mountain, and additionally 
so by intelligent co-operation with the great organizations of the na- 
tion, and getting their aid when necessary for the furtherance of the 
more immediate and particular purposes of the club.” 
Trail and 
Travel 
The Alpine Club of Canada’s Journal for 1910 is about one and 
one-quarter inches thick and contains two hundred and thirty pages 
with a number of small photographs. One-half of the volume is de- 
scriptive of various mountain climbs by small 
and large parties. The club adds to its record 
four first ascents,—North Tower of Mount Good 
sir, Mount Victoria, Mount Kilpatrick and Augustine Peak. The Scien- 
tific section contains careful flow records of Yoho Glacier, showing 
travel of different parts of the glacier varying from 25 to 150 feet a 
year. One of the guests from England to the Outing says in leaving, 
“So ended a glorious week, and we separated. We know that we are 
The Alpine Club 
of Canada 
