Notes and Correspondence. 

 NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE 



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In addition to longer articles suitable for the body of the magazine, the 

 editor would be glad to receive brief memoranda of all noteworthy trips or 

 explorations, together with brief comments and suggestions on any topics of 

 general interest to the Club. Descriptive or narrative articles, or notes 

 concerning the animals, birds, fish, forests, trails, geology, botany, etc., of 

 the mountains, will be acceptable. 



The office of the Sierra Club is Room 402 Mills Building, San Francisco, 

 where all Club members are welcome, and where all the maps, photographs, 

 and other records of the Club are kept. 



The Club would like to secure additional copies of those numbers of the 

 Sierra Club Bulletin which are noted on the back of the cover of this 

 number as being out of print, and we hope any member having extra copies 

 will send them to the Secretary. 



Two of our Boston members, Mr. Edward W. Harnden and 

 Mr. Herbert W. Gleason, enjoyed a month of mountaineering 

 among the Selkirks at the headwaters of the Columbia River 

 during September, 1910. The district, which is said to contain 

 some of the highest peaks and most notable scenery of the Sel- 

 kirks, is in great measure unknown and unexplored. Mt. Ham- 

 mond (12,125), which was unsuccessfully attempted by Professor 

 H. C Parker last year, was conquered by a member of the 

 party, Mr. C. D. Ellis, of Windemere, B. C, who carried an 

 aneroid to the summit. The party was encamped at the Paradise 

 Mine, at an elevation of 8,000 feet. A sharp ascent of 1,500 feet 

 brought them to a lake in Clearwater basin, where the real 

 climbing began. The first reach was a hand-over-hand climb 

 up an almost perpendicular wall for more than 1,200 feet. "All 

 around lay a panorama of unnamed peaks. To the north the 

 rugged backbone rose sharply away, terminating in the magnifi- 

 cent head known as Mt. Hammond." The chmbers followed this 

 ridge to a height of 11,000 feet, beyond which Mr. ElHs pro- 

 ceeded alone. The upper reaches are of limestone, and through a 

 crevice, which was rather hazardous owing to lack of firm foot- 

 ing, Mr. Ellis gained the summit. The crown, which is covered 

 with fragments of green lime shale tinged with red iron stain, 

 is split into almost equal parts, the south summit being a few feet 

 higher than its fellow. Records were deposited here in a bottle 

 by Mr. Ellis. Mt. Hammond was named in honor of the late 

 Herbert Carlyle Hammond of Toronto, a public-spirited man 

 who for years was interested in developing British Columbia, Mr. 

 Gleason, who has secured some beautiful photographs of this 

 region, writes : "There are at least seven mountains in the vicin- 

 ity that out-top Mt. Hammond, and I think some may reach 



