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A party of mountain climbing enthusiasts from the Club scaled Mount McIntyre on Sunday and report encountering snow up to their knees on the upper slopes of the great peak.

Whether the warm weather of the current week has been sufficient to melt the early fall of winter’s white mantle is not known.

Lake Placid has been enjoying typical October weather all this week, with the mercury getting up at midday nearly to mid-summer figures.

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Champlain bridge

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Rapid construction progress is being made by the firms holding the contracts for work on the Lake Champlain bridge from Crown Point, New York, to Chimney Point, Vermont. It is thought that with favorable weather the substructure will be completed by early December.

Work completed to date includes the following: pedestal piers No. 1 and No. 2 on the New York side; and lake piers No. 3 and No. 4. Already lake pier No. 5 is more than half finished. Twenty-five feet of excavation remains to be finished on pier No. 6, and pier No. 7 is nearly completed.

On the Vermont side, the abutment has been finished and work on the approach started. About 10,000 yards of fill will complete the approach on the New York side. The abutment for the approach on the New York side is practically finished.

It is reported that the American Bridge company may begin work on the bridge itself this fall.

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Northwood opens

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As reported on the Lake Placid Club News page (simplified spelling):

“Northwood junior and senior boys school opened last week, the senior school in Northwood school bilding, the junior school in Theanoguen and Onioto where both schools wer last year. Increast enrollment this year made the chanje imperativ.

“New boys and seniors arrived on Tuesday, Sep. 25 and that nyt at the opening assembly the seniors addrest and entertaind the new boys. Old boys of the other forms returnd on Wednesday. The first regular school session was held Thursday, Sep. 27.

“Football practis began at the new athletic field adjoining Northwood gymnasium. 1000 cubic feet of dirt wer hauld and deposited on the field this summer and gras grown in preparation for this athletic season. Fine locker rooms and showers in the gymnasium immideately adjoining the field ar additions that wil be most welcome.

“Football prospects this fall ar the best in the school’s history. More than half of last year’s team ar back and a larj number of the new candidates hav had football experience. The game schedule is not yet announst but it is rumored that the opening game wil be held here Saturday, Oct. 6.”

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Fly-in from Calif.

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Carter Conway of Scarborough, who with his family has been at Camp Gull Rock on Lake Placid, flew a big airplane from California to Lake Placid in five days. The plane landed at the Lake Placid field last Saturday.