The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-01-27
HOOD, MECCA ii
LAST WEEK
PORTLAND FOLK SPORT IN SNOW
Jaunts Of SnOwShOe Club and Ski Club
Men Made Pleasant by Courtesies
Of Railway Men

For the past two years members OF
the Portland Y. M. C. A. Ski Club
have extolled the play fields on the
snow on the north base of Mount Hood.
Since the winter of 1910 the Portland
Snowshoe club has journeyed in body
to the snug winter clubhouse, which,
constructed of hewn logs we'll mortised
together, stands near Cloud Cap Inn
like some Colonial blockhouse or fort
ress, except that the holes in the walls
for sharpshooters have been elimin-
ated.
However. to judge of the pleasures
that the members of both organiza-
tions who returned to Portland Sunday
afternoon by special car over the o.
W. h. & N. line, have experienced on
their annual jaunt to the snowfields
this week, the popularity of winter
sports week. the popularity of winter
sports on the mOuntainside will be
made greater than ever before. And
in years to come it is predicted that it
will be just as much "the thing" to
see the giant snow drifts, the ice cas-
cades of the glaciers, and seraces and
the snOwbridge-covered crevasses by
winter as by summer.
The Snwoshoe Club men journeyed to
their annual mid-winter retreat on
Wednesday of last week, after having
spent time in training on the tobog
gan and steep hillsides near Homer A.
Rogers Mount Hood Lodge. For three
days they were buried in the National
forest, cut off from communication
from the outside world, but withal ex-
tremely comfortable at their club
quarters, discussing in the evening by
the roaring log fire the thrills of the
day or the beauties of wintertime nat
ure that nortals less bold have not
been privileged to see.
The Y. N. c. A. party arrived at
Rogers Lodge on Thursday afternoon.
The members of the outing party
declare that their first trip was made
doubly pleasant because of the courte-
sizes extended them by the officials of
the O..W. X. & N. Co. and the Mt.
Hood Railway Co. On Thursday morn
ing the outing party we're the guests
of William McMurray, genreal passen-
ger agent of the former company,
aboard his private car here. Mr.. Nc
Murray accompanied the pleasure seek
ers as far as Parkdale. Ashley Wilson,
superintendent of the local line. also
accompanied the Y. M. C. A. party,
providing every available comfort. The
Mt. Hood line furnished special train
for the Snowshoe club from this city to
Parkdale last Tuesday.
On Thursday, when the Ski Club
members were en- route from Parkdale
to the Mount Hood Lodge, travelling in
battery of sleighs, halt was called
at the Valley Crest school, taught by
Miss Margaret Macnamara, of Port
land. Because of the deep snow and
frigid weather but eight of the harder
students of Miss Macnamara were in
attendance. Without fOrmality the
Portland men filed in at the scboolhouse
door and took their seats at the empty
desks. Unabashed by the presence of
so many visitors, Miss Mcnamara re-
linquished her rod of authority to A.
NJ. Grilley, physical director of the Y.
M. c. A., who took temporary charge
of the school aud delivered a short
speech to the eight faithful students.
"This Incident" declares r. H. At
kinson, city ticket agent of the O.-W.
R. & N. Co. at Portland, "was one of
the peasantest of the entire trip. and
to most of US brought back, vividly,
memories of our own childhood spent
in some rural district"
The Ski club members spent Friday
on short excursions in the neighborhood
of the Lodge, relieveing "charlie hors.
es" contracted on the day before and
training for the long hike to Cloud Cap
Inn yesterday, when a visit was made
to the clubhouse of the snowshoe men
and thence to the scenic vantage points
at the foot of Eliot glacier. One of
the worst sufferers from "charlie
horse" was W. j. Hoffman.
The Y. M. c. A. party had three pop
ular mascots: Mrs. Gordon Raymond.
Lloyd Jaeger and Allen Hoffman.
The personnel of the Ski club party
was as follows: A. M. Grilley, E. ]
webb, Mr.. and Mrs. G. b. Raymond,
Robert E. Hitchie, J. Harold Miner,
| N. A. Coleman. M. H. Barnes, Chas.
W. Warner, F. H. Kiser. Arthur NJ.
Prentiss, c. w. Howard, R. H. Atkin-
son, j. P. Jaeger and son, Lloyd, j. P.
Plageman, Harold L. Wald and W. j..
Hoffman and son. Allen. The following
were the members of the Snowshoe
club: J. Wesley Ladd, Dom Zan, Wal
ter B. Honeyman, Horace Mecklim, R.
P. Effiner, J. A. Doughtery. Guy W..
Talbot, Rodney L. Glisan. D. H. Ste
phenson, Herbert Nichols, G. E. Grelle,
II. C. Lewis mad D. T. Honeyman.
A remarkable feat was accomplished
by MIR. Wald, a member of the Y. NJ.
c. A. party, who, on his arrival here
from Portland at / :55 Thursday morn
ing. set out Immediately for Parkdale
on skis, arriving at $50 o'clock thor
1 ouphlv exhausted from his 30-mjle