1922 White Mtn Guide

[Hikerhead]

I found this link on the Mt Washington website. A lot of old history about the trails on Mt Washington starting on page 166. One thing interesting was the term "Trampers" I'm guessing that's what hikers were called back then. I could have been "Tramperhead".

http://books.google.com/books?id=DJ8SAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=a.m.c+white+mountain+guide#PPP1,M1

[CrumbSnatcher]

i just finished a book about hiking in the whites and the northeast,he refered to hikers as trampers all the time in the book.

[rlharris]

I have a copy of A Guide to the White Mountains by M. F. Sweetser; edited and revised by John Nelson. The original was copyrighted in 1891 and 1892; the revised edition (the one I have) was copyrighted and printed in June, 1918.

Lots of interesting reading and has some nice hand-drawn panoramas.

According to this book, the first fatality on Mount Washington occurred in October, 1851. A young hiker from Oxford University.

[warraghiyagey]

Trampers? Tramperhead? . . . ummmm . . .