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 President's
Letter
By Mary Brown
"The issue of a permanent
basecamp to house the RMC’s trail crews and caretakers is
once again on the front burner. The club has been offered land
in the valley on which to build its own facility. This opens
up the possibility for the club to take a huge step."
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 Reports from Committees
By Jeff Smith, Doug Mayer and
Michele Cormier
Camps Report, Web Site News,
Trails Report, and Treasurer's Report.
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 A
History of the RMC Camps: Part 2
By Judith Maddock
Hudson
"Crag Camp, the favorite
haunt of many Randolphians, had received ongoing repairs through
the years: a new floor, window repair, a front porch, several
new roofs. By the early 1990's the original structure had become
decrepit, and the Board voted to replace the existing structure."
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 Mountain
Weather of the Northern Presidentials
By Steve Bailey
"There’s something
different about the weather in RMC country. Winds blow harder,
snows fall deeper, and temperatures drop farther..."
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 Alpine
Flora Below Treeline
By Tim Stetter
"Twinflower fruit emerges
as a sticky nutlet with hooked bristles: a perfect parcel for
grabbing hold of birds and mammals. Through feather and fur,
Twinflower has managed to spread throughout the entire boreal
region of the North."
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 Mount Adams
By Will Strayhorn
"While looking out on the
magnificent mountains, I noted how wonderful they were. As I
stood there, hunger rumbled in my stomach, and the wind blew
hard on my face..."
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Randolph's Greatest
Storm
By Jack Stewart
"The next morning dawned
clear and I have never forgotten the sight of Howker Ridge on
Mt. Madison; on large sections all the trees were lying flat..."
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RMC Archivist
News
By Al Hudson
"Last year I completed an
inventory of holdings and organized everything in marked locations
so that items could be easily found. Since the collection is
not easily accessible, I have started to make transcriptions
of early documents and to scan historical photographs."
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When Stewardship
Means Doing Less
By Doug Mayer
"On some fundamental level,
the club seems to understand that stewardship is more than just
keeping a cabin staffed and tidy, or a trail well blazed, brushed,
and drained—that it’s an experience we’re trying
to protect, and sometimes that means doing less in lieu of doing
a lot."
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