Simian Climbing Club. The 1967-1968 school year started for the ...
Simian Climbing Club. The 1967-1968 school year started for the Simians at the University of Illinois with the usual fall instructional trips to the sandstone cliffs at Portland Arch, Indiana. There were several
trips as well to the Devils Lake climbing area in Wisconsin. During the Christmas vacation a group of 11 visited Colorado’s Sawatch Range, climbing two 14,000-foot peaks, Mount Columbia by the south ridge and Mount Yale by the northwest ridge. In March another group again went to the Sawatch, climbing Mount Antero. During the Easter break, two groups of Simians traveled to the Chisos Mountains of Big Bend, Texas, and to the Guadalupe Mountains in New Mexico. Summer found groups of varying size in the western United States and Canada. Ten Simians packed into the Wind Rivers to spend two weeks watching rain except for one good day, when five people climbed Mount Wilson via the west couloir. In Alaska Gretchen and Curt Wagner packed up the Little Susitna River valley into unclimbed regions of the Talkeetna Mountains. From a camp just below Mint Glacier, in a cirque of jagged granite spires, they climbed three of the easier peaks, all first ascents. P ete r Z v en g r o w sk i
trips as well to the Devils Lake climbing area in Wisconsin. During the Christmas vacation a group of 11 visited Colorado’s Sawatch Range, climbing two 14,000-foot peaks, Mount Columbia by the south ridge and Mount Yale by the northwest ridge. In March another group again went to the Sawatch, climbing Mount Antero. During the Easter break, two groups of Simians traveled to the Chisos Mountains of Big Bend, Texas, and to the Guadalupe Mountains in New Mexico. Summer found groups of varying size in the western United States and Canada. Ten Simians packed into the Wind Rivers to spend two weeks watching rain except for one good day, when five people climbed Mount Wilson via the west couloir. In Alaska Gretchen and Curt Wagner packed up the Little Susitna River valley into unclimbed regions of the Talkeetna Mountains. From a camp just below Mint Glacier, in a cirque of jagged granite spires, they climbed three of the easier peaks, all first ascents. P ete r Z v en g r o w sk i
