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 President's
Letter
By Mary Brown
"The Board of the RMC is
continuing to work on a permanent solution for housing its trail
crews and caretakers. The Base Camp Building Committee, chaired
by Paul Cormier and Doug Mayer, has been following up on the
many thoughtful suggestions made during one-on-one interviews
and at the Annual Meeting last summer."
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 Reports from Committees
By Al Hudson, Al Sochard, Doug
Mayer, Jeff Smith and Michele Cormier
Archivist News, Camps Report,
Trail News, Web Site News, and Treasurer's Report.
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 Randolph's
Early Pathmakers, 1850-1905
By Judith Maddock
Hudson
"The first explorations
of the Northern Peaks had started earlier, around 1850, when
hardy walkers engaged mountain guides to take them up Madison,
Adams, and Jefferson. James Gordon of Gorham was the most sought-after
guide, and it was he who led the 26-year-old Reverend Thomas
Starr King's party in 1857..."
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 RMC Announces a New
Edition of Randolph Paths and a New Map
By Judy Hudson, Doug Mayer and
Steve Smith
This new edition of Randolph
Paths, which was first published in 1917, is much more than just
another update. The guide features entirely new trail descriptions
gathered by a team of a dozen RMC volunteers who started work
almost exactly a year ago.
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 A
Trip to King's Ravine with My Grandfather, Louis F. Cutter
By Louis Cutter
"King's Ravine was my grandfather's
favorite place in the mountains; I think it is also mine. He
mapped it as his thesis at MIT in 1885, and at the first opportunity
bought the farm below it, where we still come."
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 The
Life of a Path
By Doug Mayer
"In other words, it’s
the trip that matters more than the destination. And, perhaps
nowhere else in the White Mountains are there such an abundance
of paths where it’s the journey, and not the destination,
that matters."
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