[An extraordinary well-annotated photo album documenting climbs by L.S. Lougheed, his wife Grace Lougheed, and other members of the MAAC Montaineering Club in the 1930s. The climbs depicted in the album include Zigzag Mountain north of the Zigzag River, Mt. St. Helens and Spirit Lake, Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams, and Mt. Rainier. (together with) 4 leaves pencil manuscript account of the group’s ascent of Mt. Jefferson in August 25-26, 1934, supplemented with two issues of the 1934 The Winged “M” weekly].

[Portland, OR: Grace Lougheed & L.S. Lougheed, 1931-1934]. Three parts. 1st. -- Oblong 4to. [44 pp (unpaginated).], on thick black paper stock. With 126 silver gelatin photographs all mounted w/ black corners, sized from 2.5 x 3.5 in. up to 5 x 7 in., and nearly all w/ manuscript annotations in white ink below in the margins. Contemporary faux alligator skin post-binder, punch-sewn at gutter margin w/ black braid (minor edgewear, rubbing, minor bumping to corners), still NF album; 2nd -- [4 leaves (unnumbered).], pencil manuscript, written in clear cursive using R.B. Pettijohn & Co. letterhead order sheets as scrap paper (minor creasing, a few corrections), still VG; 3rd -- 8vo. 4; 4 pp. (minor toning offsetting to front of first issue), edgewear, still VG copies. This remarkable photo album written and assembled by Grace Lougheed, chronicling the multiple mountaineering expeditions to peaks in the Cascade Mountains for the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, led by her husband L.S. Lougheed. “The first of our climbs for the summer of 1930,” was Zigzag Mountain a 5007 foot peak considered a foothill of Mt. Hood, and a popular hiking trail of about 8 miles with images of Loverne & Grace seated, Loverne & Alden on one of the peaks, and vistas of Mt. Hood in the distance. The couple followed this with trip and climb on Mt. St. Helens, ascents of Mt. Hood from the South and North Sides with trails marked on the RPPC cards, and noting that “Left Cloud Cap Inn at 2:40 AM reached top at noon. Very hard climb -- logs of rocks falling” with views glaciers on Mt. Hood, and climbers in deep snow in August. In March, 1931, they return to a climb on Mt. St. Helens, with views across the crater from their cabin, at the summit, and crevasses they nearly fell into. In August, 1931, they make ascent on Mt. Adams, noting that they “left Cold Springs Camp at 2:40 AM, arrived back at camp 5:20 PM, went part of the way with a party of Crag Rats from Hood River,” including photo of Grace seated with Joe & Loverne resting on the climb. August 31-Sept. 21, 1931 illustrates climbs to Illumination Rock, at the Summit rim, on the Reid Glacier, Ansel Rock, Zigzag Glacier, and finally Elliot Glacier at the last. In October they return for more climbs on Mt. Hood, recording first new snow, the summit cabin, the Timberline Cabin in January, 1931, with photo of the cabin interior. The first climb Jan. 11, 1931 shows image of Ole Lien, Al Builmore, Don Hampton, & Jim Harlan on the slopes above Government Camp. Their ascent of Mt. Rainier was undertaken from July 4-5, 1931, with views near Anvil Rock, near the summit, at Camp Muir, Gibraltar Rock, and views of the Tatoosh Range. The final climb documented in the album was a climb to Eliot Glacier up the Sunshine Route which follows the lower aspects of the Cooper Spur Route, and then climb toward Cathedral Ridge. The Climb up Mt. Jefferson is announced for MAAC members in The Winged “M” August 17, 1934, with announcement that this would be the fourth climb of the year for the club, whereas the pencil manuscript specifically notes that the Jefferson climb was the fifth in the series scheduled. Loverne writes that eleven people (including the only woman, Grace) chose to go and that after leaving “Wapinitia Cut-Off eleven miles past Government Camp and turning down into the Oregon Skyline Trail, we had a beautiful drive in the moonlight. The silvery light made the forest and meadows look like a fairyland with a lake now and then. . . at times we turned the car lights off and drove down the long forest road with just the bright moonlight shining through the trees.” The next day just as the sun was getting bright they were “ready for our trek of seven miles into Jefferson Park. Everyone was packed pretty heavily. . . and now and then we ran into bear tracks -- before we realized it we were came to the rim of Jefferson Park. Here the scene that is before one can hardly be put into words. . . the mountain with its pinnacles and great rought (sic) contours. The great bergschruds and crevasses shining in the sun made us all thrill to the sight.” They began the climb at midnight, crossed ice fields, hundreds of crevasses, and reached the summit with Jay Oliver, and Melwood Howlett. After their return climb down the mountain an hour before dark, they packed out for the return of seven miles to the cars parked at Breitenbush Lake, “a trip which was rather punishing after sixteen miles of steady climbing up the mountain & Back.” Grace Lougheed (b. 1901), appears to have married Loverne Lougheed sometime in the late 1920s, first appearing in Portland City directories in 1928, but we were unable to uncover her whereabouts after 1934. Loverne Lougheed (1902-1978), was a Canadian-American, whose father Ormand Lougheed (b. 1878) owned and operated a very successful sawmill and logging saw filing operation in Portland on Denver and later Union Ave. for decades. Loverne appears as Vice President of the O.J. Lougheed & Son until after World War II, when his third wife Janet Lougheed is listed as a widow in 1948, but then he reappears returning from California and appearing in directory listings by the 1950s.