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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



ing grounds, and looks after all other arrangements. The other 

 members of the Outing section have nothing to do but walk, 

 eat, sleep, and enjoy themselves to their hearts' content, free 

 from all the work and bother that attends camping where the 

 party is small. 



There are certain other advantages in numbers. Everyone may 

 find suitable or congenial company, and at night, when all are 

 gathered about the camp-fire, there may be good singing, instru- 

 mental music, story-telHng or interesting "talks" on various sub- 

 jects by professional or other persons capable of giving special 

 information or relating entertaining personal experiences. The 

 camp-fire every evening is one of the most enjoyable features of 

 the Sierra Club Outings. A "talk" by John Muir, its venerable 

 President, is a great delight as well as highly instructive. 



Each member of a Sierra Club Outing provides his own bed- 

 ding, and packs his belongings in a canvas "dunnage" bag, which 

 is strictly limited in weight when turned over to the pack-train, 

 as transportation by mule-back in the mountains is very costly. 

 But the pack-train relieves the party from the heavy toil of 

 carrying blankets, food, and other necessaries in the mountain 

 solitudes, where wagon-roads are left behind and trails often 

 become steep and difficult, even for walkers who bear no 

 burden. 



To camp in the Sierra Nevada under such conditions, free from 

 labor and care, and with every hour of the long day available 

 for walking, climbing, fishing, botanizing, study of trees, birds, 

 insects, rocks or other objects, or for social enjoyment, or mere 

 idling and sight-seeing, is to experience the sum of earthly 

 enjoyment out of doors, if the camper be in tune with Nature 

 and of a disposition to appreciate and enjoy the blessings that 

 surround him. — Wm. A. Lawson, in the Sacramento Bee. 



Hetch Hetchy Hearing. 

 (Order— In the matter of the permit of May ii, 1908, to San 

 Francisco, relating to the Hetch Hetchy Valley.) 

 In the matter of the order directed by the Secretary of the 

 Interior to the Mayor and Supervisors of the City and County of 

 San Francisco, State of California, on February 25, 1910, to show 

 cause why the Hetch Hetchy Valley and reservoir site should 

 not be eliminated from the permit to said city of date May 11, 

 1908; 



The above entitled matter having come on regularly to be heard 

 on the 25th day of May, 1910, at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m., and 

 said City and County of San Francisco, having, through its repre- 

 sentatives, applied for a continuance of said hearing and for 



