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to embrace all holidays falling on a Saturday or Monday, and also a 
Saturday afternoon and Sunday trip each month when the moon is 
near the full. Some of the voints thus visited have been Mt. Diablo, 
Mt. St. Helena, the Big Basin (Santa Cruz Mts.), the Redwood Grove 
of the Bohemian Club and the Armstrong Big Tree Grove along the 
Russian River, Duxbury Reef at Bolinas, Inverness (on Tomales Bay), 
Bear Valley, La Honda and Potrero Meadows. Some of these have 
been taken as pure knapsack trips, in others the over-night stop has 
been made at a hotel, and on still others some of the party have knap- 
sacked while others have remained at a hotel. Though hardly to be 
classed among the “local’’ excursions one of the activities planned 
by the Local Walks Committee was a mid-winter trip to Yosemite 
Valley, which gave about twenty dwellers in the Bay region the novel 
experience of ice skating, skeeing, coasting and snow balling. 
MARION RANDALL PARSONS 
. ; There is plenty of good work going on in Switz- 
Swiss Alpine erland in the way of true alpinism. A Zurichose 
Club mountaineer, M. Triek, of the Uto section of the 
Swiss Alpine Club, ascended on July 30, for the first time this year, 
the difficult and dangerous pass of Crast’Aguzza, between the Mor- 
terasch Glacier and the upper Scerscen Glacier, in the Bernina group. 
The section Diablerets early in August made its regular excursion to 
the Grisons, climbing in considerable numbers Piz Segnes, near Flims 
(10,174 feet) and Sardona, about fifty feet lower. 
The Diablerets section has been in evidence against this season, 
this time at Zermatt, where, on August 7, ten members, having for 
guests two of the Montreux section, climbed the Matterhorn with- 
out a guide. It was a gala day for the grim old mountain, for not 
less than thirty-two persons were on its summit, and at the hut it 
was necessary for half of the company to sleep out of doors. It was 
stormy in the night, but no one was the worse. 
The convention of mountain climbing clubs called by the Hono- 
lulu Trai) and Mountain Club was held in Honolulu during the week 
from February 22d to February 28th, 1911.. The meetings were very 
informal in their nature. The desirability of some joint action by 
the clubs on the Coast giving a member of one club temporary rights 
and privileges of their clubs when visiting the other places was dis 
cussed and it was the sense of the meeting that such courtesy should 
be extended as far as possible. 
The Pan Pacific Congress held a convention at the same time 
and place and they have under consideration the establishing of per- 
manent headquarters in some state in the United States, possibly 
New York, and the suggestion was made to the mountain climbing 
clubs to have desk room there where any one interested could se- 
cure information regarding the work done, trips taken and contem- 
plated, and could read the magazines and bulletins which would be 
filed. 
