Artificial collection of summit and cairn notes and registers assembled by the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Consists of notes and registers recording ascents and routes for various peaks in the mountains of western Canada. Includes notes by prominent mountaineers, guides and personalities…
Artificial collection of summit and cairn notes and registers assembled by the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Consists of notes and registers recording ascents and routes for various peaks in the mountains of western Canada.
Includes notes by prominent mountaineers, guides and personalities, including Rudolf Aemmer, Glen Boles, Eaton Cromwell, Georgia Engelhard, Edward Feuz, Val A. Fynn, Lillian Gest, Christian Hasler, Conrad Kain, Arnor Larson, A. H. MacCarthy, Alex McCoubrey, Don Munday, Phyllis Munday, H. P. Nichols, C. L. Noyes, George M. Weed, C. S. Thompson, Pierre Trudeau and others.
Also includes registers placed by the Alberta Rockies Mountaineering Society, an organization established to coordinate the climbing of seventy- five Alberta mountains as an Alberta 75th Anniversary Project.
The names of individual mountains, peaks and prominent mountaineers represented in this collection are maintained in subject data field.
File consists of 32 paper and cardboard scraps (one laminated) containing individual handwritten notes by numerous authors. Content pertains to personal notes and accounts of ascent of Mount Baldy. Many notes dated and listing names of author(s), some with further detailed accounts of ascent. Also …
File consists of 32 paper and cardboard scraps (one laminated) containing individual handwritten notes by numerous authors. Content pertains to personal notes and accounts of ascent of Mount Baldy. Many notes dated and listing names of author(s), some with further detailed accounts of ascent. Also one rolled piece of paper material, annotated, containing dried plant matter.
File consists of two summit registers retrieved by Paul Zizka between 2019 and 2020. Includes Mt. Stephen summit register (Sept. 9, 1987 - Sept. ? 2020) and two pages from the Ringrose Peak summit register (July 28, 1990 - Aug. 2019).
File consists of two summit registers retrieved by Paul Zizka between 2019 and 2020. Includes Mt. Stephen summit register (Sept. 9, 1987 - Sept. ? 2020) and two pages from the Ringrose Peak summit register (July 28, 1990 - Aug. 2019).
Items must be stored flat. keep notebook in mylar to prevent contact between metal / water damaged material and other items. Consider removing metal spiral if rust causes further damage to notebook pages.
File consists of small notebook and loose page from different notebook. Content pertains to register notes for Cinquefoil Mountain between 2003 - 2005 in small green notebook, and loose annotated page (n.d., author unknown) formerly part of small red notebook (blank) which was identical to green on…
File consists of small notebook and loose page from different notebook. Content pertains to register notes for Cinquefoil Mountain between 2003 - 2005 in small green notebook, and loose annotated page (n.d., author unknown) formerly part of small red notebook (blank) which was identical to green one.
Notes
Red notebook discarded, annotated loose page kept in folder.
Handwritten record of mountain ascent (unnamed mountain located 2.2 km NNE of Mount Folk), written on scrap piece from coconut biscuit box. Author unknown, dated 1964(?). Provides multiple names of climbers, and references Alpine Club and Vancouver. Names written include: Paddy Sherman(?), Werner H…
1 Textual record: handwritten on cardboard in pencil
History / Biographical
Recovered July 17, 2011 by David P. Jones of Golden, B.C.; original author/owner unknown. Was originally stored upside down in old rusty sardine can and punctured with several holes caused by lightning.
Scope & Content
Handwritten record of mountain ascent (unnamed mountain located 2.2 km NNE of Mount Folk), written on scrap piece from coconut biscuit box. Author unknown, dated 1964(?). Provides multiple names of climbers, and references Alpine Club and Vancouver. Names written include: Paddy Sherman(?), Werner Himmelsbach, Ralph Hutchinson, Don MacLaurin, Joe Hutton, and Bren Moss.