Dartmouth M ountaineering Club. The D.M .C., with its unique history and long tradition of supporting rock climbing and m ountaineering in the D art­mouth comm unity in Hanover, NH, is one of the largest affiliate clubs within the Dartm outh Outing Club. It offers activities, safety and skills training, gear use and workshops to undergraduate, graduate and faculty mem bers at Dartmouth.

General activities include: 1) weekly business meetings, which often include informal slide shows and skills workshops; 2) several rock climbing trips per term to surrounding areas such as Cannon, Cathedral, Rumney and the Gunks, or ice climbing at the Winslow cliffs, Huntington Ravine and other areas used for w inter skills, training and m ountaineering instructions; 3) beginner- interm ediate/advanced clim bing on campus buildings such as the Rumney Rock Barn, the Boston Rock Gym and the Jonathan Beiden Daniels Clim bing Gym. In July and August, six undergraduates undertook a m ountaineering expedition to Bolivia.

The opening o f the Jonathan Beiden Daniels Clim bing Gym on campus has provided a major facility for the D.M.C. Much of the funding for the gym. housed in a converted racquet-ball court, was provided by the Daniels family, whose son Jonathan, Dartmouth '86, was killed in a mountaineering accident.

H e a t h e r H a l s t e a d and K a r im H r u s k a , Co-chairs