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 President's
Letter
By Mike Pelchat
"Beginning with this issue,
the RMC newsletter will be published twice a year. Through it,
we hope to inform the entire membership about all that is happening
within the organization..."
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 Reports from Committees
By Ben Phinney, Jeff Smith and
Doug Mayer
Report from the RMC Long Range
Planning Committee, Camps Report, Web Site News, and Trails Report.
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 Building
the New Four Soldiers Path and Underhill Path
By Aaron Parcak
"With food in our bellies
and packs strapped on we walk down the puddle filled logging
road towards the work site. We arrive at the blue tarp, unwrapping
the large burrito to reveal an array of trail building tools..."
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 Mt. Washington--Revisited
By John Dykstra
Eusden
"My brother David and I
began to discuss a way of rediscovering the mountain. We decided
to spend a long day on Washington, beginning before dawn and
ending after nightfall, ascending and descending, going up and
down and across the mountain using different routes."
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 Four Soldiers Path and Underhill Path: Naming
RMC's New Trails
By John Eusden,
Jack Stewart and Doug Mayer
At its October meeting, the Board
voted to name the new trails Four Soldiers Path, in honor of
the four Revolutionary soldiers for whom the Pond of Safety is
named, and Underhill Path, in honor of Miriam Underhill.
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 Crag,
the Cozy Camp
By Norma Hart
"Crag Camp is a retreat
in the Northern Peaks of the Presidentials. It is as comfortable
in winter as in summer and twice as charming. To judge from the
blank appearance of the register in winter, this is not well
known or exploited."
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Designing RMC's
New Paths
By Carl Demrow
"Trails today are designed,
first, with the resource itself in mind. Minimizing grade, strictly
avoiding the “fall line” (the path a ball would take
if you were to roll it down a hill) and staying out of wet areas
are paramount."
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A Letter to
the RMC
By Melina Shannon-DiPietro
"I am writing to ask your
help. As you know, only three of the five peaks of Adams have
been named. I would like to propose that one of the unnamed peaks,
Adams 4, be named in honor of Abigail Adams."
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Mountain
Peace
A poem by Dana
Snyder-Grant |
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