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Our Mountain Trips
Part I -- 1899 to 1908

 Table of contents

  • Introduction
  • Prologue ­ Early Mountain Connections
  • Our Carriage Trip to Monadnock ­ June 1899 ­ IRJ
  • Our Carriage Trip to North Conway ­ June 1900 ­ IRJ
  • A June Tramp ­ 1903 ­ WHJ
  • Camping on Mt. Chocorua ­ Sept 1903 ­ IRJ
  • Our Camp on Paugus Brook ­ June 1904 ­ IRJ
  • My First Experience Camping ­ Sept 1904 ­ LAB
  • The White Mountains in September ­ 1904 ­ IRJ
  • The Brook-Path Camp ­ June 1905 ­ IRJ
  • Camping in September 1905 ­ LAB
  • Waternomee Camp ­ Sept 1905 ­ WHJ
  • Mid-winter Sunshine ­ Jan 1906 ­ WHJ
  • Two of Us and Dolly ­ June 1906 ­ WHJ
  • In the Woods About Mount Chocorua ­ 1906 magazine article ­ WHJ
  • A Few Days' Rest Beside Claybank Brook ­ June 1907 ­ WHJ
  • Unpremeditated ­ Aug 1907 ­ WHJ
  • Birch Intervale ­ Sept 1907 ­ WHJ
  • June Again ­ 1908 ­ WHJ
  • My Vacation in 1908 ­ Sept 1908 ­ LAB
  • An Interrupted Vacation ­ Sept 1908 ­ WHJ

(IRJ is Ida Rachel James, WHJ is Walter H. James, LAB is Lucy Ardena Butterfield)

The campers walking to the train for home, their packs and tents having been sent ahead by horse and wagon ­ North Woodstock, NH, 1905.
Left to right they are Royal Heuter, Eleanor Sweet, Laurie Smith, Lucy Ardena Butterfield, Jimmy Johnson, and Ida Rachel James. Behind the camera is Walter H. James.

Our Mountain Trips
Part II -- 1909 to 1926

 Table of contents

  • Blue Job ­ September 1909 ­ IRJ
  • Carter Range ­ September 1909 ­ WHJ
  • Felt Boots and Snowshoes ­ January 1910 ­ WHJ
  • Chocorua ­ June 1910 ­ WHJ
  • Stratham Hill ­ July 1910
  • Camping in 1910 ­ September 1910 ­ LAB
  • The Great Gulf ­ September 1910 ­ WHJ
  • Between the Drought and the Storm ­ June 1911 ­ WHJ
  • Dunstable, East Jaffrey and Dublin ­ August 1911 ­ WHJ
  • The Trails ­ September 1911 ­ WHJ
  • The Davis Trail ­ August 1912 ­ WHJ
  • The Rocky Branch and Boote's Spur ­ June 1913 ­ WHJ
  • September 1913 with Tyler
  • Just Walter and I ­ June 1914 ­ IRJ
  • Mud, Frost, and Pleasure ­ September 1914 ­ WHJ
  • Mount Agamenticus ­ August 1915
  • Mountain Trip ­ September 1915 ­ WHJ
  • Automobile Trip to the Berkshires ­ June 1916
  • The Davis Path and Beyond ­ September 1916 ­ WHJ
  • September 1917 Trip ­ WHJ
  • Automobile Trips to the Mountains in 1918 ­ WHJ
  • Bartlett, N.H. ­ March 1920 ­ WHJ
  • West Minot and Camping ­ 1920
  • September Camping Trip ­ 1920 ­ WHJ
  • A Memorial Day Outing ­ 1921 ­ WHJ
  • Fall Camping Trip ­ 1921 ­ WHJ
  • The Mohawk Trail and Southern Vt. ­ September 1922 ­ WHJ
  • A June Outing of the Old Type ­ 1923 ­ IRJ
  • June Snow and Thunder Showers ­ 1924 ­ WHJ
  • Franconia Notch ­ June 1925
  • New Hampshire and Maine ­ August 1925 ­ IRJ
  • Vacation 1926 ­ IRJ
  • Whippoorwill Camp
  • The Next Generation
  • Old Memories ­ WHJ

IRJ is Ida Rachel James, WHJ is Walter H. James, LAB is Lucy Ardena Butterfield.
Chapters with no author cited had no text in the original journals, just photographs.

Crystal Cascade in Pinkham Notch -- photographed by Walter H. James in 1910



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