The Mazamas

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Mazamas
legal form United States Code Title 26 501 (c) (3), NTEE Code C60
founding July 19, 1894
founder WG Steel and others
Seat Portland, Oregon ( ⊙ coordinates: 45 ° 31 ′ 7.8 ″  N , 122 ° 37 ′ 5.2 ″  W )
main emphasis Rockclimbing
Action space Oregon , Cascade Range
Website mazamas.org
A Mazama team climbs Mount Hood (Summer 1963)

Mazamas (pronounced mah-sah-mas ) is a Portland, Oregon- based mountaineering organization founded on Mount Hood in 1894 . She is the editor of Mazamas Magazine .

Promotion of mountaineering

The ascent of Mount Hood on July 19, 1894, when the organization of the Mazamas was founded by 105 climbers, including WG Steel (top left)

The Mazamas have been a significant part of the mountaineering communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States since their inception . The Mazamas are very similar in their goals and activities to the Mountaineers from Seattle , which were founded in 1906 as a support organization of the Mazamas.

The Mazamas offer more than 900 mountain hikes and 350 climbing tours for more than 13,000 participants annually. A variety of courses and activities are offered for all skill and fitness levels for both members and non-members. The organization promotes mountaineering through (further) education, climbing and hiking activities, membership, safety training and the protection of the mountains .

founding

The Mazamas were officially founded on July 19, 1894 on the summit of Mount Hood by a group of 105 climbers. Members of the former Oregon Alpine Club, J. Francis Drake, Martin W. Gorman, Francis C. Little, William G. Steel , Charles H. Sholes, and Oliver C. Yocum had planned the climb to form a new club; they had picked the name on March 19th. The climbers had responded to an advertisement in the Morning Oregonian dated June 12, 1894, announcing a meeting at the summit. Soon after its inception, the members were making first-time climbs across Oregon and Washington.

Surname

The name Mazamas means mountain goats and comes from the Nahuatl word mazatl (deer). The Mount Mazama , the collapsed volcano, which the Crater Lake was formed, located in Oregon and was named on 21 August 1896. In the organization as it held its annual meeting. They also named the Mazama Glacier on Mount Adams in 1895 and the Mazama Glacier on Mount Baker in 1907 after themselves.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jon Bell: Mount Hood . 17th March 2018.
  2. ↑ ES Meany: Mountaineering . Edmond S. Meany Papers. Retrieved January 23, 2007.
  3. ^ John Jack Grauer: Mazamas . Retrieved March 17, 2018.
  4. ↑ History; Significant Mazama events . Archived from the original on August 18, 2014.
  5. ^ Mazamas — Your Adventure Starts Here . The Mazamas. Retrieved January 23, 2007.
  6. ↑ Fred Beckey : Columbia River to Stevens Pass: Climbing & High Routes  (= Cascade Alpine Guide), Volume 1. The Mountaineers , 1987, ISBN 0-89886-127-6 .
  7. ↑ See mazatl (Wiktionary)
  8. ↑ Fay Fuller: Christened Mount Mazama . In: Tacoma Ledger , September 6, 1896. 
  9. ^ MW Gorman: The Discovery and Early History of Crater Lake . In: Mazamas (ed.): Mazama . 1, No. 2, Portland, OR, 1897, pp. 150-161. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  10. ↑ Mount Mazama . USGS . Retrieved April 29, 2018.
  11. ^ Claude Ewing Rusk: Tales of a Western Mountaineer , 1st edition, The Mountaineers, Seattle, Washington 1924 (1978), ISBN 0916890627 .
  12. ↑ Mazama Glacier ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved February 25, 2016.

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