Our 1974 trip covered fifty-four days of wonderful adventure, all within the western United States. This year though, we replaced the Canadian backpacks with our first summit climb of Mt. Rainier, an extended four-day trip on the Deschutes River and an Olympic National Park trek into it's mountainous wilderness. Our group of thirteen students once again all hailed from Cincinnati and once again, our trip began and ended in Cincinnati, with all of us traveling in the first of three blue fifteen-passenger vans we purchased in the initial years.
Our climb of Rainier was particularly memorable as all fifteen of us made it to the summit. Little did we know, that by 2005, we would be responsible for more than twenty-four hundred students attempting the summit of this lofty peak.
Our second catalog stayed exactly the same as that of the previous year.
In the fall of 1974, we officially gave up our teaching jobs and moved to the famous White Grass Ranch at the base of the Tetons in Grand Teton National Park.
Heading to Camp Muir on our first summit climb of Mount Rainier
in 1974.
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Helen relaxing in a snow cave at Camp Muir in 1974
Our first new fifteen-passenger van which was used for three
summers.
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Mike and Helen on the Summit of Rainier with our second WV
WV group in 1974.
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Our second WV group in 1974 before leaving Cincinnati.
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