Very Very Post-trip report: old photos of Yosemite Sierra Club outings 1914-1915

Excellent!

I enjoyed those old photos, and they weren't too bad considering the camera technology of the time.

–B.G.–

Thanks for posting this. I especially love the images that show people. Like this one:
http://jim.4lipmans.com/RLL/1914%20Sierra%20Club%20Outing/slides/1914Y%2002-10%20cap.html

Check out her shoes on the left. Camp shoes.

http://jim.4lipmans.com/RLL/1914%20Sierra%20Club%20Outing/slides/1914Y%2002-11%20cap.html

Nice spotting, Ken! Camp moccasins? Maybe they could be made out of 1/8" CCF…

After posting this to the group of retirees I hike with, I found out that Jim Lipman is actually a member of that group, though he hasn't hiked with them since I started with the group so I hadn't met him. Small world! I wrote to him and got a very nice reply. Among other things, he said:

"When I see people on a Sierra Club Outing wearing a tie and sports coat-like coat, it is clearly another time. But if you look at the places where my father went on the 1915 Outing, you will see that it was clearly another time with regard to where people would go in those days. The 1915 trip was essentially a base camp at Tuolumne Meadows. On that trip my father went down to Waterwheel Falls, went over Mono Pass to Mono Lake and back, and went down to Mt. Ritter and back, and perhaps another trip. And this is all aside from hiking from Yosemite Valley to Tuolumne Meadows and back to start and end the trip. Well, OK, they did have a month for all of this, I think. But I still am impressed at how ambitious they were in exploring the mountains."

I'm impressed at the amount of organization it must have taken to do this with all those people. Kind of like getting everyone to do that at a GGG, for a month…

Very cool. Hopefully one day Hetch Hetchy can start to recover.