#WomenWhoHike
WRVM Collection, Auburn Globe-Republican, May 24, 1918
Tacoma Mountaineers work in White River, 1918
The Mountaineers, a Seattle outdoors club founded in 1906, had a significant number of women members. Women led many of their hiking and mountain climbing expeditions, including a highly publicized climb up Mount Rainier during the 1909 NAWSA convention.