Boy Scouts in the White Mountains

NOTE

The author and publishers desire to express their appreciation of the courtesy extended by Small Maynard & Co. for the use of the black and white plates used in this volume, which are taken from their “White Mountain Trails” and also to “The Northward-Ho” for the use of the reproduction of the Presidential Range used on the cover.

To
Sydney Bruce Snow

In memory of a cheerful fire
and a doleful broken egg
beside the
Lakes of the Clouds

Contents

I.[Peanut Calls to Arms]13
II.[Getting Ready for the Hike]23
III.[Fourth of July on Kinsman]34
IV.[Moosilauke]60
V.[Lost River and the Ladies]82
VI.[A Strange Adventure in the Night]105
VII.[Over the Lafayette Ridge, with a Dinner Party at the End]123
VIII.[On the Forehead of the Old Man of the Mountain]154
IX.[The Crawford Notch ]163
X.[A Fight with the Storm on the Crawford Bridle Path]177
XI.[To the Summit, Safe at Last ]194
XII.[Down Tuckerman’s Ravine]223
XIII.[Up the Huntington Head Wall]243
XIV.[The Giant’s Bedclothes ]257
XV.[With Rob, Art and Peanut into the Great Gulf ]266
XVI.[First Aid in the Clouds! ]272
XVII.[Peanut Learns Where the Six Husbands’ Trail Got Its Name]282
XVIII.[Through King’s Ravine and Home Again]290

Boy Scouts in the White Mountains

CHAPTER I