The Holbrook news., 1912-07-12
NJ HE world-over Alpine societies have prepared their itineraries
 for the year, and this article
 will have reference to some of

nave pISpdIGQ luGlI llluGl al ACS for the year, and this article | A will have reference to some of 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 its many sections are in the midst of the snowy mountains
 and with important peaks within easy
 striking distance and a wealth of
 guides, professional and amateur, to lead the parties and three-quarters of
 a hundred club huts and hotels in
 which the members have some mat
 ters in the way of precedence, there
 is little wonder that not less than four or five hundred ascents are planned for the current year. Each one of the sixty or sixty-fve sections has its own itinerary, some of them, the least am bilious. with half a dozen trips
 planned, while the most important ones have in general a trip in each month of the year.
 Bachtel and Berne are the sections that this year present the most i'm posing outlinings of the trips, the lat ter with no less than F in its itiner- ary and the former with IA, two of the peaks at 5000 feet, five others above $500 and one of these, the Wetter- horn, rising to above 12,000 feet alti- tude The Berne section began its walks with a ski tour in January to the Abendberg and a month later to Selibuhl The March outing was to Hochwacht above the Langenthal and a fortnight ago there was a climb to Beichlen.
 High Climbing In June.
 May has three items on the list, Sommerau, in the westerly extension of the Jura mountains, not far from Basic, on May 12; four days later a joint meeting with the clubs of central Switzerland in the Oberland, and to- wards the end of the month, May 26- 27, Whitsunday trip in the Jura in 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 SuIeck (S,O13 feet) in the ranges to the west of Lauterbrunnen, while July 2O-21 will be devoted to the ascent of the Dolden horn (nearly 12,0O0 feet) in the Kander region The early Au- gust trip, 2-4, will be to Monte Rosa and in the middle of the month to the Hangendlescherhorn. September will open with a join excursion of this sec ton and that of Basic to the Chas- seral (5,330 feet) and October, No vember and December will have each of them a trip to some less important | 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 4,0O0 feet over looking the lake of Zurich, and in February there were ski tours to neighboring heights. On May 27 | there will be a family party" to lesser peak near the lake of Zurich, and in June the heavier work begins. June 2 or g 1t will be the Stenalpbrisen q. .9OO) and June 23 or 30 the trip will | be to the Claridenstock (10,700 feeD | in the ranges just south of the lake of Lucerne, Pig 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 12.OOO and Glarnisch are alternatives, the club uniting again on August IS or 25 on the Pig Platta, above 11,000 feet in the Splugen region. Septem Der. and the three following months, offer less important climbs, being respectively Hochwang, Kopfenstock, Regelstein, and Etzel, the latter of the height of one of the Sand wich peaks in the White mountains, and offering no extended view and be-