Identifier: outing63newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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APPALACHIAN MT. CLUB SHELTER CAMP AT HERMIT LAKE, TUCKERMAN SRAVINE WALLED IN BY THE BIG SNOWS CLEAR TO THE ROOF BEAMS lantern light with the thermometer atzero, and it is worthy of note that itwas necessary to do all this and to startthe fire before the almost exhausted stu-dents could lie down to rest and be rea-sonably safe from freezing. referred to, the Rev. John Edgar John-ston, following Dr. Gile, announcedthat he also wanted to make a gift, andthen and there handed over the deed toSkyline Farm, on the north side ofManns Hill, overlooking the entire
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DARTMOUTH—A WINTER COLLEGE 401 White Mountain Range. This farmembraces one hundred acres and hasseveral excellent buildings on the prop-erty, to which Mr. Johnson has sinceadded a dormitory for housing twenty-five men. From the ninety-foot verandaon the valley side of this dormitoryone may look north to Dixville Notch,east to Mt. Washington, and south toFranconia Notch, as fine a view, in theopinion of many woodsmen, as any in theWhite Mountains. During the succeeding summer, thisfriend of the Outing Club purchasedand presented another twenty-five acretract on the southwestern flank of CubeMountain, partly pasture and partlywoodland. A mountain brook crossesthe middle section, and, even in dryweather, runs clear and cold. There isa spring on the lower edge of the prop-erty, and above the spring in a clumpof birches is the camp site, commandinga view of the western horizon, includ-ing the sharp peak of Killington in theGreen Mountain Range and the hillsalong the Connecticut Valley. F

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