The famous shelter cave at the Saddle. There's where we kept warm for an hour with but a single candle. Walter, Bill, Jelly, Norm, Miggie, Nurmi, Neill, Helen and Bob. Note Jelly's track pants, the only pair that ever ascended the Grand Teton
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Description
Photographer: Margaret Willis. Plates in: Souvenir of the 1926 outing of the Sierra Club, Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Teton, [photograph album]. Plate [11] Group picture within overhand of cave. 2010-1530. Beginning in 1901, the Sierra Club held an annual outing, eventually known as the High Trip. Up until 1930, outings led by William Colby. In 1926, some 200 hikers trailed by pack animals and cooks, hiked into Yellowstone National Park. Hikers broke into small groups, exploring various different trails – album follows one small group. This small group also climbed the Grand Tetons once out of Yellowstone, before heading home.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print ; 2 x 3 in.
Identifier
(C)001440748CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra Club--Photographs National Parks & reserves--United States Backpacking--Wyoming--Grand Teton National Park Caves--Wyoming--Grand Teton National Park Grand Teton National Park (Wyo.)--Photographs Photographic prints Photograph albums
Place
United States Wyoming Grand Teton National Park Grand Teton National Park (Wyo.)
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