Show V Backseat 1 Driving riving 1 FRANK K BAKER By i T Telegram Sports Editor I As the only o on in the state sponsoring spon- spon sponsoring sponsoring spon- spon a 1 year round program the thi Wasatch Mountain club has helped pioneer some remarkable advancements for those who revel in vigorous outdoor recreation The club organized in 1920 as a hiking club has added skiing skating swimming and geology studies to its repertoire and is now venturing into rock climbing as a new specialty Although most of the climbs in this region do not require the use of rope piton and ice ax there are arc a number of formations of rock which become very interesting 1 climbing 1 I when approached from certain difficult angles The These e tough angles are what interest the rock climbers and the members interested in that phase of the clubs club's program prof program program pro- pro f gram will continue their lessons during the coming summer Odd Odell Odeil Peterson has led these groups in the past but has moved to San Francisco and his successor has not been L named Club members have climbed virtually every peak worth climbing in the vicinity of f Salt Lake City and in the In 1938 nine of the clubs club's masculine members and Irma Haws trekked to the top of Grand Teton in what r dais there described as the largest party to make it to the th top without the services of a trained guide 14 Not all the members are arc devoted climbers intrigued 1 by y the prospects of clinging to a precipice by their fingertips fingertips fingertips finger finger- tips or in itt dangling over a cliff on a piece of rope Consequently Con- Con the directors attempt to balance the Interests with ample attention to skating skiing and hiking Overnight jaunts to the clubs club's lodge at Brighton are are regular week-end week incidents especially in the thc winter for forthe forThe the skating and skiing enthusiasts This lodge started in 1929 1029 vill accommodate 60 people in n Its mens men's and women's dormitories dormi dormi- tories tories and boasts adequate space for the members to dance the schottische the polka and other folk dances before the huge i fireplace Club members member built the lodge lodge- and do virtually all the main main- main mam- work Both men and women contribute their time rand energy on periodical work tr trips ps when the lodge is cleaned repaired and supplied with fuel and other necessities Trip leaders rs and commissary sup supervisors ors are are appointed by th the board of directors for each week-end week party or jaunt They go over the list of members making reservations for forthe the trip and assign special duties to each individual so that everyone docs does his share of the work Even the guests attending the week-end week lodge parties arc are required to pitch pitchin in and help prepare the meals wash the dishes and keep the lodge in order This arrangement arrangement helps keep expenses down in a big way Club membership is about now and this cooperative cooperative cooperative tive support of all the members makes it possible for foi the organization to finance its extensive program chiefly by bya a 3 annual membership fee Members of course pay their own freight on the various trips and even that is kept to a minimum For example the club sponsored S 51 Si 1 trips Strips last year with an average average of 25 going on the trips rhese groups traveled a total of miles in reaching I t their various destinations and transportation costs aver aver- ged only 97 cents per member per trip I One Ono of the toughest assignments undertaken was the It ski trip up Mount April 21 Nineteen made vr VP that jaunt and another group is planning a similar climb again this spring 0 According to Ray McGuire a director the club is giving Iome Fome thought to water skiing for the coming summer the membership which is open to all people 18 years pf pi age and over offers a wide panorama of activities the year around Art Johansen who instructs the clubs club's ski classes also has thas had experience on water skis and will probably direct direct that hat activity if it is inaugurated u Bill Kamp tamp is president for the third successive term In Incidentally Incidentally In- In he be also won the C. C R. R Parry trophy for the clubs club's ski championship last season cason Other officers are Bob Cunningham Cunning Cunning- Cunning I lam ham am vice president Harry J. J Duerkop secretary Delbert Yer- Yer Jensen gensen treasurer and E. E N. N Ebbe Irene Geurts Julia McGuire Fred Wolf Parry and Bill Bancroft directors o Besides being a member of the Intermountain Ski association the club has also been one of the most active supporters of the Ski Patrol In fact the cooperation anc and timely cly effort of these outdoor enthusiasts have been great blessings in a 1 number of emergencies t T i- i There was wu for instance the occasion a decade ago when i in Cardiff fork of Big Cottonwood canyon crushed 1 mine bunkhouse and injured several miners Club members ere verc cre summoned from a cabin at Brighton and the they made toboggans toboggans fans gans gans of their skis to transport three injured men to an J ance nce at the foot of the Stairs in the canyon The sheriffs sheriff's office drafted members one winter to take food by skis to a snowbound family in a remote part of the Aid to innumerable persons with broken bones and injuries encountered oh ort hiking and skiing trips has ha come comei i ES s s a of matter-of-fact eagerness to serve fellow sportsmen I iL The Mountain 1 club has really pioneered the cross- cross Mi country and recreational skiing in this area Its members mem- mem f hers bers made a regular practice of skiing across the mountain from Park City to Brighton long before the canyon road was kept open to the resort For a long Jong time the club a. a sponsored a three-day three cross-country cross trip on the Decoration Decoration Decoration Decora Decora- tion day week end hiking from Park City to Brighton to Alta on t to Lake Blanche and then home through Big il Cottonwood canyon The winter sports program now bulks large in the general genera activity of the club Eighteen of last yea years year's s trips were devoted devote to skiing but the group follows the calendar all the way way- around round with plenty to do all the tIn Indeed the clubs club's influence is both commendable and far re reaching ching I V V c V |