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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 



Report of Committee on 191 i Outing. 

 The 191 1 Outing of the Sierra Club was the most ambitious 

 outing yet undertaken and in many ways the most successful. 

 There were 185 regular members of the party, and counting 

 assistants and help, the total party numbered about 220. There 

 were thirty-six members who came from outside the State, mainly 

 from the vicinity of Boston and Chicago. The number of the 

 party was strictly limited, as has been the custom in the past, 

 and unfortunately we had to refuse fifty or more applicants who 

 wished to join after the list was complete. After a preliminary 

 camp of two weeks in Yosemite Valley, which was taken ad- 

 vantage of by many who went on the main outing as well as 

 other members of the Club, the party started into the High 

 Sierra, camping in the Little Yosemite and also at Lake Merced. 

 After spending a few days in Tuolumne Meadows the entire 

 party moved to the mouth of Conness Creek, at the head of the 

 Grand Cafion of the Tuolumne, and thence to Matterhorn Canon, 

 Rogers and Benson Lakes, Kerrick Cafion, and finally reached 

 Tilden Lake in the very northern portion of the Yosemite Na- 

 tional Park, a region as yet little visited, but one of the most 

 attractive portions of the park, with its wonderful lakes, peaks, 

 forests, canons and meadows. The party returned to El Portal 

 from the Hetch Hetchy Valley, which was reached via Rancheria 

 Mountain. From this latter point, near which we camped one 

 night, we obtained the stupendous view across and up the Tuol- 

 umne Canon, one of the finest in the whole Sierra. It was no 

 slight undertaking to transport provisions and baggage by pack- 

 train for such a large party on a circuit of approximately 150 

 miles, during which the main camp was moved fourteen times. 

 No serious mishap occurred on the entire trip. Plans for the 

 1912 Outing to the Kern River are well under way and the party 

 will be taken into portions of the Sierra in the vicinity of the 

 Kings-Kern divide, such as the Milestone, Thunder and Table 

 Mountains, which have seldom been visited before. Everyone 

 qualified will have an opportunity to climb Mt. Whitney (i4>50i 

 feet). The trout planted by the Club in 1908 have grown to very 

 large size and the fishing will be superior to any we have ever 

 enjoyed. To be able to catch golden trout twenty inches in 

 length will be an experience not soon forgotten. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Wm. E. Colby, Chairman, 

 J. N. Le Conte, 

 E. T. Parsons, 



Outing Committee. 



