Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1912-06-29

~ Will have reference TO some oi
the more important projects
outlined by the various sections of the
great Swiss Alpine club, writes John
Ritchie, Jr., In the Boston Transcript.
The homes of it's many sections are
In the midst of the s,-owy mountains
and with important Peaks within easy
striking distance and wealth OF
guides, professional and amateur, to
lead the parties and three-quarters Of
hundred club huts and hotels In
which the members have some mat
.ers In the way of precedence. there
Is little wonder that not less than four
or five hundred ascents are planned
tor the current year. Each one of the
sixty or sixty-flve sections has its own
Itinerary, some of them, the least am
bilious, with half a dozen trips
bianned, while the most important
ones have in general trip in each
month of the year.
Bachtel and Berne are the sections
that this year present the most Inn
posing outlinings of the trips, the lat
ter with no less than IL in its timer
ary and the former with IA, two of the
peaks at 5000 feet FIVE others above
9, 500 and one of these, the Wetter
horn, rising to above $4,000 feet alti
tude The Berne section began Its
walks with ski tour in January to
the Abendberg and month later tc
Selibuhl. The March outing was to
Hochwacht above the Langenthal and
fortnight ago there was climb to
Beichlen.
High Climbing In juno.
May has three items on the list,
Sommerau, In the westerly extension
of the Jura mountains, not far from
Basle, on May IL; four days later
Joint meeting with the clubs of cRntral
Switzerland In the Oberland, and to-
wards the end of the month. May 26-
81, a Whitsunday trip In the Jura lin
the vicinity of Doubs,
In June the higher climbing begins
with the Dent de Brenlaire (7.743
feet) among the northern foothills OF
the Bernese Oberland. July, August
and September have two ascents each,
early in the first-named month, the
Suleck (8,013 feet) in the ranges to
the west of Lauterbrunnen. while July
20-21 will be devoted to the ascent of
the Dolden horn (nearly 10000 feeD
in the Kander region. The early Au-
gust trip, "a, will be to Monte Rosa
and In the middle of the month to the
Observation-Disclosures September Will
open with a Join excursion of this sec
tion and that of Basle to the Chas-
seral $3.50 feeD and October, No
vember and December will have each
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mountain top.
The Bachtel section began its good
work for the year on January with
a reunion with neighboring sections
on the Bachtel, one of the minor ele-
vations of less than 1000 feet over
looking the lake of Zurich, and in
February there we're ski tours to
neighboring heights. On May 27
there will be family party" to a
lesser peak near the lake of Zurich,
and In June the heavier work begins.
June 2 or 8 It will be the Stenalpbrisen
(7,900) and June % or 80 the trip will
be to the Claridenstock (10.700 feet)
In the ranges just south Of the lake OF
Lucerne, Piz Rotondo, a couple of
hundred feet lower. one OF the st.
Gothard mountains. is the task for
July. while within the first two weeks
of August the Wetterhorn at above
IL 900 and Glarnisch are alternatives.
the club uniting again on August IS
or 25 on the Piz Plata, above 1000
feet In the Splugen region. Septem-
Der, and the three following months.
offer less important climbs, being
respectively Hochwang. Kopfenstock.
Reaelstein, and Etzel. the latter
OF that height of one OF the Sand
wich peaks in the White mountaiIs,
ana offering no extended view and bs-