CHAPTER II
Getting Ready for the Hike
For the next few months several of the Scouts
saved up money for the White Mountain hike.
Art, as patrol leader, and as originator of the idea,
felt that it was up to him to do all in his power to
encourage the plan, so he borrowed Rob Everts'
radiopticon (Rob himself was away at college now),
and secured from Mr. Rogers, the Scout Master,
who had been to the White Mountains many times,
a bunch of picture post-cards and photographs,
showing all kinds of views from that region—the
Old Man of the Mountain, the clouds seen from the
top of Mount Washington, the Great Gulf between
Washington and the northern peaks, the snow arch
in Tuckerman's Ravine, and so on. Mr. Rogers
himself came to the meeting and explained the pictures,
describing the places enthusiastically. Some
of his own photographs were taken at very steep
places on the trails, and here some of the boys
gasped. One picture in particular showed Mr.
Rogers himself climbing a ledge, almost as steep as
the side of a house, with a pack on his back and a
blanket roll over his shoulder.
