Mt. Moosilauke (1930) - Summit Supplies
". . . The caretakers pack all their fresh supplies up the Glencliff Trail and the remaining food, fuel and equipment is hauled up the Carriage Road by buckboard in quarter-ton consignments. This past summer three tons were landed on the summit by this method.
All the food and equipment from kerosene oil to yeast cakes must be packed up the mountain on human backs or be hauled by the none too willing team of horses.
Cranberry sauce is the one exception for on the grassy upland slopes are found mountain cranberries in abundance. The Prospect House in days of yore was supplied with fresh milk from cows which grazed on wiry grass and Greenland sandwort. Each modern crew of caretakers threatens to lure a milch goat to the summit but at present evaporated milk and klim are used as substitutes for fresh milk. Eight 55-gallon drums of kerosene oil were used during the past season for heating and cooking purposes. Boys and girls camps to the number of 79 visited the Summit Camp.
According to the season's records, 14 Moosilauke pancakes were devoured by one of the camp boys at a single sitting. The capacity of the hungriest girl camper proved to be nine of the famous mountain griddle cakes. Although the Camp is equipped to accommodate 71 overnight lodgers, 108 trampers were put up the night of July 30, the same day the supposedly reliable spring went dry thus necessitating a water haul of over half a mile. The record number taken care of any one night was established in 1923 when 147 climbers found protection under the roof of the Summit Camp. . . ."
From "A Decade of Dartmouth on Moosilauke" by Robert S. Monahan, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, 1930.
