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 President's
Letter
By Jamie Maddock
"Hello from Randolph! It's
been a windy fall here in RMC country. In late September, an
especially dramatic storm came through with winds over 100 mph
on the summits and over 60 mph in the valley. This has made some
extra work for our volunteers and our fall trail crew..."
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 Reports from Committees
By Doug Mayer, Al Hudson, Al
Sochard and Michele Cormier
Trails Report, RMC Archivist
News, Camps News, Treasurer's Report, and RMC Trails: Then and
Now.
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 Anna
Bemis Stearns
By Judith Maddock
Hudson
"Anna was a member of the
RMC beginning in 1920. Between 1939 and 1969, she served 13 years
on the Board, with 6 years as secretary, 2 years as vice-president
and in 1956-58 two as president. Tom Barrow recounted that during
the 1940s, when labor for clearing trails was scarce, Anna and
his father took charge of clearing the Beechwood Way..."
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 Logging
on the Northern Peaks, 1865-1912
By Judith Maddock Hudson
"The 1892 completion of
the Boston & Maine railroad through Randolph Valley made
timber harvesting on the Presidentials a reality. First intimations
of this appear in 1895 when the AMC purchased, for $400, a strip
of land 600 feet wide around the waterfalls on Snyder Brook..."
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 On
Finishing the Four Thousand Footers
By Will Strayhorn
"Emerging from the trees
onto Signal Ridge on Mt. Carrigan I caught my first glance of
the summit. As I climbed along the beautiful ridge, I looked
at the magnificent mountains and the bright blue sky. In the
distance a cloud floated lazily along the horizon..."
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 Living
in Bear Country -- On and Off the Trail
By Doug Mayer
One of the seven LNT principles
is to “Respect Wildlife.” One of the most important
means we have of respecting wildlife is keeping our food sources
separate from their food.
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Tales from the
Trails: Paul and the Bear Cub
By Kathy Tremblay
"This past summer, Paul
was on an early evening run along Pasture Path, when, from the
corner of his eye, he saw a small bear cub skitter up a tree
as fast as he could climb..."
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White
Mountains 4000-Footer Quiz
By Jack Stewart |
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 Scoured
by Wind or Buried by Snow
By Kelly Towle
"Alpine zones are places
of intensity and drama, of fierce winds, harsh snows, and rough
terrain. But they can be places of subtlety as well, where a
slight shift in topography can lead to an array of differences
in plant life."
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 Spending
a Winter at 4370'
By Derek "Storm" Schott
"I was lucky enough to spend
a winter at RMC's Gray Knob cabin last year -- working 11 days
on and 3 days off from November through April. Several people
have asked me what it is like to spend a winter in an unheated
cabin on the side of a mountain in northernmost New Hampshire..."
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 Letters
to the RMC
By Michael Field
and Chuck Wooster
"The last thing I expected
to see while wandering on the internet was my own picture. But
there I am, on the front page of the Winter 2004-2005 RMC Newsletter,
Mountain Hut Hosts Sounds of Music, carrying part of a
pump organ."
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