"CAMP AND TRAIL CLUB ACTIVITIES BEGIN"

June 24, 1927--The camper and tramper is taking his annual step to the foreground at Lake Placid Club this week, and the mutual condescension between tramper and golfer is already creeping into view. Why anyone should desert a real game on springy, cool turf for a hot climb toward Heaven is beyond the golfer's comprehension: why men possest of souls should choose to remain with their eyes on the ground when they might be treading the heights and feasting their eyes on inspiring panoramas is impossible for the tramper to understand. So they bow to each other indulgently, mutually label each other 'crazy' and set off for their favorit sport.

Hiking and climbing start in earnest here this week, with the opening of these regular trips under direction of the Camp and Trail Club. George H Knight, camping and tramping director returnd this week to resume charge of the trips, bringing with him Charles L Lees who will supervise activities for boys from 12-18 years, and Dick Gawne who will be general assistant on trips whenever needed. Edward H Haskell will return next week to resume supervision of activities for younger boys. Miss Sybilla Schilling has already commenst her work with the Pathfinder group of girls. Henry Powell, caretaker, is now at Moose island. Jed Rossman resumed his duties at Adirondak loj May 1.

Cobble, Whitney and other lesser peaks are in the schedule of trips, to allow beginners to test their skill or those just starting the season's climbing to work up gradually to climbing Whiteface, Mac Intyre, Colden and Marcy. Often if there are enough hardy ones who want to undertake the trip, a jaunt is taken over the big range peaks. This starts from Keene Valley and goes peak-valley-peak-wise as Felix does in the animated cartoons, journeying over Gothics, Saddleback, Basin, Haystack, Panther gorge and Marcy, thence to Adirondak lodge where adequate camping provision awaits and is no doubt most welcome. A canoe trip thru the Saranac chain is often a feature of the summer's outdoor activities. George Knight has already been out on scouting trips, preparatory to marking a trail thru that region by South Meadows known as the Klondike to a point just east of Round lake, in order to shorten the route between Adirondak loj and Cascade clubhouse. Another trail the Club has scouted is one that will connect Adirondak loj with the Johns Brook lodge of the Adirondak Mountain Club and from there continue into Keene Valley. When finisht, this trail is expected to prove a boon to skiers as well as to trampers.

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*The Lake Placid Club used "Simpler Spelling" in their publications.  I have written the article as it was origionally published.

Aurora Ramsay works in the Brewster Research Library at the Adirondack History Center Museum in Elizabethtown.

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