Series I: Administrative Records

Series II: Club Activities

Series III: Club Newsletters

Series IV: Club Scrapbooks

Series V: Mountaineering Periodicals

Series VI: Mountaineering Publications

Series I: Administrative Records 1925-2001

Box 1
Subseries 1 - Minutes, 1928-1995

1/1 Minute Book, 1928-1938
1/2 Minute Book, 1938-1946
1/3 Minute Book, 1946-1952

Box 2

2/1 Minute Book, 1952-1958
2/2 Minute Book, 1959-1969
2/3 Minute Book, 1969-1982
2/4 Minute Book, 1982-1995

Box 3
Subseries 2 - Incorporation Records, 1953-2001

3/1 Records and Certificate of Incorporation, May 2001

      Constitution and Bylaws

    3/2 Mount Baker Club, “pre-1953” 1953 1972 1984 1994
    3/3 (Proposed) of Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs, undated
    3/4 Bellingham Camera Club, 1968

Subseries 3 - Membership records, 1947-1993

3/5 Correspondence re: membership, 1949

3/6 Membership Application Cards, 1936-2002

3/7 Membership Application Cards, 1938-1998

3/8 Membership Application Cards, 1951-1980s

3/9 Membership Application Cards, 1976-2001

3/10 Membership Release and Indemnity Agreements, 2001-2002
3/11 Membership Release and Indemnity Agreements, 2002-2003

3/12 Membership Cards, 1950-1952, 1961-1963
3/13 Membership Lists (Club and Board Members), undated 1947-1958 1964
3/14 Membership List (Club Members), 1983-1985 1986-1988 1991-1993
3/15 Cascade Wilderness Club Membership List, undated

Subseries 4 - Legal and Financial Records, 1928-1967

3/16 Receipt and Disbursement Book, 1928-1932
3/17 Memo re: Bookkeeping Records, 1948
3/18 Capitol Stock Tax, 1938 1933
3/19 Contracts and Agreements re: the Kulshan Cabin and property, 1928-1948 1966
3/20 Mount Baker Club Insurance Policies, 1937 1948 1960
3/21 Health Insurance Information, circa 1966-1967

Subseries 5 - Property Records, 1925-1999

3/22 Field Equipment Inventories, 1987, 1992, 1999
Mt. Baker Cabin

3/23 Building Specifications for Cabin on Heliotrope Ridge, undated 1925
3/24 Agreements and records re: Mt. Baker Club and Western Washington College of Education joint ownership of Kulshan Cabin, 1948-1966, 1983

Series II. Club Activities ca. 1925-2004 (bulk 1925-1996)

Box 3
Subseries 1 - Club Outings, 1925-2002

3/25-3/26 Summit Log, 1925-1930 (*Original restricted due to fragility – copy available to researchers)
3/27 Records of Trip Attendance, 1961-1962
3/28 Classification of Outings, undated

      Outing records and reports

    3/29 Chiwack River (Boundary Trail), 1977 1980
    3/30 Chiwaukum Mountains, Icicle Creek, July 1981.
    3/31 Mt. Rainier (Silver Springs Campground), 1983
    3/32 Pasayten Wilderness, July 1976
    3/33 Sawtooth Ridge, 1977, 1979, 1981
    3/34 - 3/36 General, 1963, 1977-1982, 1985-1986, 1993-1994, 2002
    3/37 Trails Information, circa, 1968-1982

Box 3
Subseries 2 - Winchester Lookout, 1983-1986

3/38 "The Winchester Lookout," by Vern Renius, 26 October 1982.
3/39 “The Winchester Mountain Cabin,” Dave Jette, undated
3/40--3/42 Winchester Lookout Guest Book, 1983-1984

3/43 Winchester Lookout Guest Book, 1986-1994
3/44 Nominations to National Register of Historic Places (Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest Lookouts), 1986

 Subseries 3 - Photographs, circa 1925-1980's

"Hiking Trip Photos" in box/folders 3/42 - 5/22 comprise material collected by Club members Hazel and Carl Priest, arranged by location.  The collection also contains CDs with digital copies of many of these images.

Oversize folder 1

Photo of club members, 1925

Box 3

3/45-3/46 Hiking, social events, and scenery, circa 1930s-1950s, 1970s-1980s
3/47 Mt Baker Club 50th Reunion, 1971

 

Hiking Trip Photos ca. 1948-1975

3/48 Hiking trips (general), undated

Box 4

Hiking – Mt. Baker area

4/1 Mt. Baker Recreation Area (general), circa 1948-1960
4/2 Chain Lakes, circa 1948-1957
4/3 Lake Ann / Shuksan Arm, circa 1948-1966
4/4 Ptarmigan Ridge / Coleman Pinnacle / Camp Kaiser, circa 1948-1957
4/5 Kulshan Cabin / Coleman Glacier / Hogback Ridge / Grouse Ridge, circa 1949-1971
4/6 Goat Mountain, 1949
4/7 Douglas Fir Hike, 1949
4/8 Anderson Creek, 1947
4/9 Winchester Area / Twin Lakes / Gargett Mines, 1947-1948, 1952 1970
4/10 Church Mountain, 1948
4/11 Welcome Pass, 1948
4/12 Hannegan Pass, 1948
4/13 Baker Lake, 1949 1972
4/14 Sauk Mountain, 1951 1972
4/15 Ross Lake Dam / Diablo Lake, 1956

Hiking - Foothills

4/16 Canyon Creek (Nooksack River), 1948
4/17 Devils Garden / Devils Mt. 1948, 1957
4/18 Sumas Mountain /Deming Lookout, 1948
4/19 Entwhistle, 1957
4/20 Stewart [Stuart] Mt., 1971
4/21 Bowman Ridge, 1948
4/22 Cultus Mt., 1949
4/23 Lookout Mt., 1948
4/24 Blonden Cabin, 1971

Box 5

5/1 Chuckanut / Larrabee, 1948, 1958, 1972
5/2 California St / Lake Samish, 1975
5/3 Fisherman’s Cove, 1948

Hiking – Coastal Areas

5/4 Governor’s Point, 1957
5/5 Point Roberts, 1971
5/6 Birch Bay, 1949-1957
5/7 Fort Bellingham, 1971
5/8 Bird Refuge [?], 1974
5/9 Unidentified beach hikes, circa 1953-1970

Hiking – outside Whatcom County

5/10 Deception Pass / Mt. Erie, 1948-1957
5/11 Camano Island, 1956
5/12 Ebey’s Landing, 1971
5/13 Ft. Casey (Whidbey Island), 1956
5/14 San Juan Islands, 1971
5/15 Monte Cristo, 1948 1957
5/16 Buck Creek, 1971
5/17 Mt. Rainier/Mt. Fremont, 1956-1957, 1966-1967
5/18 Ohme Gardens / Palouse Falls, 1961, 1972
5/19 Icicle Creek, 1972
5/20 Grouse Mt., B.C., circa 1950
5/21 Indian Arm, B.C., 1956
5/22 Stanley Park, B.C., 1956-1971

5/23 Digital copies of Priest images (CD-ROMs), undated

Box 6

Subseries 4 - Newspapers & Clippings, circa 1940-1972

6/1 – 6/2 Clippings Book, 1940s
6/3 Newspaper clippings, 1963, 1972,

Oversize folder 2

Bellingham Herald Centennial Edition, 26 April 1953

Subseries 5 - Film, 1948-1952

Films of "Mt. Baker Club Hikes" in box/folder numbers 6/5 - 7/3 were created by club members Carl and Hazel Priest.  The Priest films are on reel to reel format, with a copy available on video cassette tape

Box 6

6/4 Mt. Baker Skiing (reel to reel tape), 1948

Mt. Baker Club Hikes 

6/5 Beach / Canyon Creek / Sumas Mountain, 1948; Skyline Ridge / Tomyhoi Mountain/ Cultus Mountain, 1949
6/6 Suiattle Mountain / Mt. Baker, 1950; Sauk Mountain / Ross Dam / Mt. Baker Trail, 1951
6/7 Bowman Ridge / Mt. Rainier / Mt. Baker / Kulshan, 1952

Box 7

7/1 Ruth Mountain / Lake Ann / Grouse Butte, 1951-1952
7/2 Cascade Pass / Camp Kiser / Church Mt, circa 1952
7/3 VCR copy of Priest footage, undated

Subseries 6 - Song Books, 1926, 1978-1979

7/4 Club Song Books, 1926, 1978-1979

Subseries 7 - Club History Files, 1909-1980

7/5 Announcement of 16th Annual Outing of the Mazamas, 1909
7/6 Information re: Origins of Mt. Baker Club (Whatcom Museum of History and Art), undated
7/7 Koons, Fritz. "My Life Story," undated
7/8 "Mighty Joe Morovitz: Real Life Bunyan," Sports Illustrated, 7 January 1963
7/9 Mt. Baker Club 50th Anniversary Dinner, October 1971
7/10 Spieseke, Alice W. Accounts of "Winnie's Slide," 1980

7/11 Website, 2004 April 4

Box 8
Subseries 8 - Printed Hiking Information, circa 1927-1980

8/1 American Alpine Club, “Accidents in North American Mountaineering,” 1963
8/2 Hiking Safety pamphlets, circa 1970s-1989
8/3 National Park and National Forests, 1927-1937 1961 1976
8/4 “Pacific Coast Berry Finder,” 1978
8/5 “Mountain Flowers of Manning Park,” 1969
8/6 “Backpacking and Hiking: An Annotated Booklist.” Bellingham Public Library, 1970s

Subseries 9 - Maps, circa 1902-1974

Oversize Folder 3

Forestry and Parks 1949-1974

Washington (11 items)
British Columbia (2 items)

Oversize Folder 4 and Rolled Document #1

Topographical Maps, Washington, 1902-1969 (19 items)
Washington Industry and Resources 1965, 1976, 1981. (6 items)

 

 

Series III. Club Newsletters 1928-2004

The series comprises an almost complete set of the Club's official newsletter, "The Rambler," from its first edition in August 1928 through 2004.

Box 8
Club Newsletter "The Rambler"

8/7 August 1928-September 1932
8/8 1934-1939
8/9 1940-1949
8/10 1950-1959
8/11 1960-1969
8/12 January 1970 - November 1972
8/13 December 1972 - December 1975
8/14 January 1976 - December 1979
8/15 1980-1984
8/16 1985-1989
8/17 1990-2000
8/18 2002-2007

 

Series IV. Club Scrapbooks 1925-1985

The first Mount Baker Hiking Club scrapbook, compiled by Charles Easton, was donated to the Whatcom Museum of History and Art in 1946. The original scrapbook is now held in the Museum’s Photo Archives and is also available on CD Rom.

Box 8
Information re: Easton Scrapbook

8/19 Key to Easton Scrapbook, undated
8/20 Permission for Bellingham Public Library to copy, 1957-1961

Box 9
Scrapbooks

9/1 1925-1931 (click here to browse digitized copy of scrapbook)
9/2 1931-1938
9/3 1940-1950
Volume 1 1950-1956
Volume 2 1957-1958
Volume 3 1958-1960
Volume 4 1961-1964
Volume 5 1965-1967
Volume 6 1968-1974
Volume 7 1974-1977
Volume 8 1977-1981
Volume 9 1981-1985

Volume 10 1985-1988

Volume 11 1989-1993

Volume 12 1993-2000

Series V. Mountaineering Periodicals 1897-1983

Box 10
10/1 The Argus Christmas Edition, 1922
10/2 B.C. Mountaineer, 1974, 1979
10/3 Camper and Hiker, March, April, August, 1928.
Camp Life

10/4 January 1929-July 1929
10/5 September 1929-October 1929

10/6 Klipsun June, 1979
10/7 Lamontaña, Mar 1936
Mazama

10/8 1897-1912
10/9 1914-1917
10/10 1918-1921
10/11 1922-1925
10/12 December 1927
10/13 December 1928
10/14 December 1929
10/15 December 1931
10/16 December 1932
10/17 December 1933
10/18 December 1936
10/19 March 1982

Box 11
The Mountaineer

11/1 November 1908
11/2 November 1909
11/3 1907-1913
11/4 1918-1921
11/5 1922-1925
11/6 December 1927
11/7 December 1928
11/8 December 1929
11/9 December 1931
11/10 December 1932
11/11 December 1933
11/12 July, 1983, September 1983

11/13 Overland Monthly, March, 1925.
11/14 Signpost for Northwest Trails, March 1983
11/15 The Westerner, September 1906.

Series VI. Mountaineering Publications 1916-1986

Box 11

11/16 Beaty, Jeanne Kellar. Lookout Wife. New York, Random House, 1953
11/17 Denham, A.H. The Name of Mount Tacoma. Tacoma: Rotary Club, 1924
11/18 Fordyce, Trail Craft. Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Publishers, 1921
11/19 Forest Outings. Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 1940

Box 12
12/1 Fourth Report of the United States Geographic Board, 1890-1916. Washington Government Printing Office, 1916
12/2 Freeman, Lewis R. On the Roof of the Rockies. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925
12/3 Jeffries, LeRoy. Selected List of Books on Mountaineering. New York Public Library, 1970
12/4 Lefebvre, Rosamond Neumann. Charmed Land: A Book of Northwestern Verse. Chicago: Grosser-Bigelow Company, 1931
12/5 Mount Baker: A Chronicle of its Historic Eruptions and First Ascent. Ed. Harry Majors. Seattle: Northwest Press, 1978
12/6 Petzoldt, Paul. The Wilderness Handbook. New York: WW Norton & Co, 1974
12/7 Prevention of Disease and Care of the Sick. US Public Health Service, Treasury Department, 1918
12/8 Proudman, Robert D. and Reuben Rajala. Trail Building and Maintenance. Appalachian Mountain Club, 1981
12/9 Spring, Ira. and Byron Fish. Lookouts: Firewatchers of the Cascades and Olympics. Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1981
12/10 The Mountain: Brief Submitted to the US Geographic Board [re: Name of Mt. Rainier]. Tacoma: Justice to the Mountain Committee, 1917
12/11 Wilcox, Ken. Hiking Whatcom County: Selected Walks, Hikes, Parks & Viewpoints. Bellingham: Northwest Wilderness Guides, 1986