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REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 



Report of Outing Committee, 1913 Outing 

 The 1913 Outing was the most ambitious outing in point of difficulty 

 ever undertaken by the Club. Encouraged by the success of crossing 

 the Sierra Range from west to east in 1912, the plan was reversed in 

 1913 and the special Pullman trains from Los Angeles and San Fran- 

 cisco were joined at Mojave and ran to Owenyo, the broad gauge 

 terminus in Owens Valley on the eastern side of the Sierra. The nar- 

 row gauge then took the party a few miles further to Citrus, where 

 conveyances transported us to Independence for luncheon. 



That afternoon we reached the first night's campsite in Pine Canon. 

 The next day's trip involved a climb of nearly 6000 feet over Kearsargc 

 Pass on the crest of the Sierra and then dropping down to camp at 

 Vidette Meadows. A large number of saddle horses had been provided 

 at Independence for that day, to aid in making the ascent, which proved 

 to have been a wise provision. Another year this tedious ascent com- 

 ing so early in the trip had better be broken and camp made at Onion 

 Valley, half way to the Pass. 



Never before did a Sierra Club outing party arrive so suddenly and 

 so early in the trip in the midst of such grand and inspiring High 

 Sierra scenery. 



University Peak, Mt. Brewer, Center Peak, and other nearby summits 

 were ascended and shorter trips made to Charlotte, Vidette and Center 

 Basin Lakes. Knapsack parties totaling over fifty in all made the 

 glorious circuit over Glenn Pass to Rae Lake and then down Woods 

 Creek into Paradise Valley, and finally rejoining the main party, which 

 had meanwhile gone down Bubb's Creek into the main Kings River 

 Canon or "South Fork Yosemite." The few days spent here were busy 

 ones. Swimming, picnic parties to Mist Falls and Roaring River Falls, 

 the climb of the Grand Sentinel, and preparing for the great feature of 

 the outing — the trip into the Middle Fork — occupied the time. 



Leaving Kings River Canon by the Copper Creek trail, the party 

 climbed 6000 feet to camp in Granite Basin. The next day the party de- 

 scended into the Middle Fork Canon and camped at Simpson Meadows 

 — famed for its wild flower gardens and beautiful groups of trees, en- 

 closed by stupendous canon walls — among the highest in the whole 

 Sierra. Trips were taken up Goddard Creek to Mt. Goddard, to Triple 

 Falls, Marion Lake, and two members of the party visited Bench Lake, 

 where the golden trout planted under the direction of the Club in 1910 

 were found to have attained a weight of two or three pounds. 



About sixty members knapsacked via Triple Falls and Observation 

 Peak into the seldom visited Palisade Basin — a wonderful combination 

 of the wildest and most rugged region of the entire Sierra, with the 

 jagged Palisade range over 14,000 feet in elevation towering to the east, 

 and the most charming and picturesque meadow and garden spots 

 along its main stream. 



