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 President's
Letter
By Mary Brown
"Plans for a Base Camp to
house RMC trail crews and caretakers on days off are proceeding
quietly. An excellent building committee under the leadership
of Paul Cormier is working to develop a design and a construction
method that will give the club this much-needed facility at a
lower cost than the original plan."
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 Reports from Committees
By Michele Cormier,
Doug Mayer and Jeff Smith
Treasurer's Report, Trails Report,
Camps Report, and Web Site News.
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 Charades
at the RMC Picnic
By Judith Maddock
Hudson
"Although the parlor game
of charades is often played in mime, Randolph’s rules seem
always to have allowed elaborate scripts as well as ever more
fanciful props and scenery..."
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 A
Study of RMC's Winter Visitors
By John Pereira
"I approached the Randolph
Mountain Club and the White Mountain National Forest and asked
if they would be interested in having me conduct a winter impact
assessment of the Northern Presidential Range..."
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 RMC
Archivist News
By Al Hudson
"Although the constant rain
inhibited climbing through much of July and August, the opportunities
to expand the Club's photographic holdings kept me busy. Due
to the generous access to family materials given to me by a number
of Randolphians, I was able to complete more than 570 photographic
scans with the aid of my new digital equipment."
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 Lost Rings Found on Starr King Trail
By Edith Tucker
"The two rings fell out
of her pants pocket on Sept. 13, 2003, when she was peak-bagging
on Mt. Waumbek, one of the 48 4,000-foot White Mountain summits
required to be climbed for those aiming to be members of the
Four Thousand Footer Club."
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 Mountain
Hut Hosts Sounds of Music
By Marty Basch
"The music is not an hallucination.
Hikers trekking up the Spur Trail on the side of King Ravine
on Mount Adams can sometimes hear the tones of a century-old
pump organ being played from a mountain hut."
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 Searching for the Elusive Bicknell's Thrush
in Randolph
By Mary Halm Small
"We stopped to listen at
each of the next four points, and still no Bicknell’s thrush.
The study protocol calls for revisiting the points to play a
1-minute tape of Bicknell’s thrush vocalizations in the
hope of enticing any birds in hiding to respond..."
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Tales from the
Trails: Wild Dogs
By Kathy Tremblay
"Soon, however, I knew I
wasn’t alone. I heard footsteps – a lot of them –
very stealthily moving on either side of the trail..."
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Randolph
Mountain Club Jeopardy
By Jack Stewart |
