GRAND TETON NATURE NOTES

DARTMOUTH SKI TEAM VISITS JACKSON HOLE

En route to a ski meet with the west coast championship University of Washington ski team, the Dartmouth team, east coast champions, stopped in Jackson Hole for a week of practice. The group, consisting of Dick Durrance, Steve Bradley, Howard Chivers, Warren Chivers, John Litchfield, and the coach Walter Prager, were guests of Fred Brown of Wilson Christmas week, and were properly acquainted with choice skiing localities by Fred. An exebition on Teton Pass the Sunday following Christmas was largely attended by residents of Jackson Hole. All the men were very enthusiastic regarding skiing possibilities in the Teton Range, and commented frequently on the excellent snow conditions and the unlimited possibilities for long ski courses on all types of slopes, free from hindering trees and brush. We believe this visit is significant in anticipating the development of a popular interest in this region as a winter sports center. - Ed.

PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE FIRST ASCENT OF THE GRAND TETON

Enlargements of photographs taken on the first ascent of the Grand Teton in 1898 were recently donated to the Grand Teton National Park Museum by Miss Elizabeth Spalding. It was the party of 1898, consisting of William O. Owen, Franklin S. Spalding. Frank L. Peterson, and John Shive, who discovered the now famous "crawl" or "cooning place". This narrow ledge forms the route of traverse across the face of a 2500 foot cliff, and is the connecting link between the lower saddle and a series of chimneys and ledges on the west and northwest sides of the peak by which the summit is gained, One of the photographs, taken by Owen when the party repeated the climb the day following the first ascent, shows Spalding, Peterson and Shive on the summit. A second picture is of the "cooning place" with Spalding and one other elbowing their way, fully prone, across this narrow ledge. - Ed.

Acknowledgement - The cover of this issue is from a photograph by Fred Ayres.