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previous Outings. Their knowledge of camp life and 

 practices, as well as acquaintanceship with the region, 

 was of much service to the new members, and was freely 

 offered at all times. I gratefully remember advice and 

 information that thus came to me, and which saved me 

 unnecessary pain and hardship. 



I was impressed with the orderliness and lack of con- 

 fusion with which the Outing was conducted. It is no 

 small task to provide during a whole month for one 

 hundred and fifty people, part of the time on the march 

 and the remainder of the time in camp in the mountains 

 at a distance from the base of supplies and where every- 

 thing has to be transported by pack-train. Yet the com- 

 missary was well supplied at all times and there was 

 but little delay in bringing forward the baggage. 



I was pleased beyond expression at the opportunities 

 offered to see the region. I was somewhat surprised, too, 

 at the number who came to see. Personally I had ex- 

 pected to do considerable ''hiking" and to attempt some 

 climbing of mountains. But I did not expect to see a 

 party of some sixty or seventy stringing out over the 

 snow-fields and climbing the passes at eleven thousand 

 feet, as happened on the Merced trip. I saw much more 

 of the High Sierra than I thought was possible in the 

 time allotted, a result only attributable to the previous 

 careful planning of the Outing. 



The memories of the knapsack trips are imperishable. 

 I shall ever see the basin of the Upper Merced, lying 

 white in the moonlight, and the falls of Foerster Creek, 

 breaking into showers of silver beads; and the vision of 

 Ritter, guarded on one flank by Banner Mountain and 

 on the other by the Minarets, as we saw them that first 

 time when we reached the ridge at Foerster Mountain, 

 will ever rise to greet me! And the roar of the Tuol- 

 umne I shall still hear when the memories of other sounds 

 shall fail! And then the comradeship, begotten by the 

 close association, where it was the first thought of every 

 one to be of service to everybody else, where every one 



