Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-10
THE MouNTTAINEER.
Who's Who Of Climbers and Rating OF
Peaks and Passes.

was deposited sixteen years ago in the
cylinder on South Tri-pyramid and
which, being now filed with names,
has been brought down and its place
filled by another roll. On the final
trip for the year on Sept 16, 1897, the
late Walter r. Davis, with two com
panions in the club and an outsider,
deposited the roll in its lonely resting
place. 1t bears the names of four
others who made the ascent in July.
Late in the season the Davis party
climbed South Tri-pyramid and no one
visited the summit afterwards till, On
the occasion of an Appalachian snow
shoe visit to the valley. a group of
six gained the summit led by Mr..
Davis, all of the others of whom are
still in the running. 1t was a climb
of four and one-half hours from the
hotel that day, March 1. The snow
| rose above the cairn on the summit
about two feet and the trees We're COW
cred on the north side of the cone. In
July there We're three who climbed.
| one of whom registers the interesting
| fact that his weight was 100 pounds;
and thirteen in September. the last
party Con September 21 striking into
the woods on the east slope on the
| way to the Albany Intervale and
Chocorua. Three climbers in July
and two in August was the record for
1899, with eleven in September and
| two in October. The last party
dropped down through the forests like
the one of the year before into Albany.
One of the September parties had
| walked from Lake Winnipesaukee over
Sandwich Dome.
One of the 1901 parties varied the
mode of attack, by coming from Pas
saconaway over the slide to Downs's
| Brook and up the brook to the trail
from Whiteface The Appalachians
selected Waterville for their rendez-
p sent TO the top the largest party
| that had yet reached it together, 13
| in number, and in the register, one
can see the name of Herschel c. Par
| ker. since famous for exploits among
| the snowy ranges of the nearer and
| farther Northwest.
In 1902 Paul r. jerks, whose work
| in path cutting has been noted the
past two years in this department.
| passed that way, recording that in
February, 1899. with DR.. w. r. Wood
bury, he had been on the summit but
| had not been aware that register roll
was there located.
Aug. IL, 1908, the Appalachians came
again to the summit. The club sum-
mer camp was that year pitched at
McCrillis's on Whiteface Intervale
and eight of the company, five of
| whom were women, tramped over
| Whiteface to the top, descending by
| the south slide to Waterville where
| the night was spent. The return, if
the Mountaineer remembers correctly,
was made next day over Sandwich
| Dome, making a strenuous and inter-
| esting two days tramp.
July, 1906, shows an increase in the
| number of passers-by, with eight on
record, while August shows nine
| names, and eleven for September.
Sept. 5. 1907, party from sChocorua
| camped over night on the northern
peak, returning next day to the place
of starting. In 1907 the fountain pen
makes its record here for the first
| time. In 1909 a company left Water
| Vile going by the Woodbury. trail to
| the top of Whiteface, thence back and
over the Sleeper trail to the top of the
South Tri-pyramid. The intention IS
noted of going to the north peak, but
the length of time of the tramp is not
mentioned. 1t would have been prac-
tically out of the question in those
Edays to return to Waterville in sin
gle "a hours. July, 1909, sent one par
ty of nine to the top, group of young
men from Camp Hale, the only climb
/ for the month, but in September ff-
teen reached the top, largely COM
pany mailing from New Jersey and the
est. Sept. Is, 1911, the party blazed
the trail from the south peak to the
middle, missionary piece of work.
Comparison of the earlier figures
with those OF today shows that there
| is a steadily increasing NUMBER OF
climbers. August of last year having
21. and July and August this year nav
ing IS and 20, respectively. Two IN
teresting facts in respect to the vari-
Gus companies may be given: one the
return year after year OF the same
adults, and the evidence from the sig
natures that a considerable number
lwho climbed first as children come
again and again to this striking sum-
nit.
| or very different character is the
whiteface roll also just returned.
Whiteface is practically the ad3a-
cent mountain in the range ano
a path joins the two without
ascending and other peak, SC
they are next door neighbors. Bu'
Tri-pyramid is reached only from the
| Waterville valley, while Whitelac'
fronts on the broad intervales ina
stretch 20 miles to the south to the
shores of Squam and WinnipesauKee
Near at hand is Birch Intervale VIII
!, | its houses; a line of smaller summer
resorts reaches out into Sandwich. no
| far away in the Bolles country VIII
numbers of summer visitors While TN
edges of the lakes are bordered VIII
/ camps. Thus it is that the climbers o
/ Whiteface have filled since June
! 1912. a roll similar to that which re
! NAMED a decade and half on the tol
Z of Tri-pyramid. Nine during tn
month that the roll was deposited. 10
in July, and more than two hundred u
: August, tell the story of the POPULAR
l glacier