Fritiof Fryxell and his friend Phil Smith were the first
seasonal rangers hired when Grand Teton National Park was
created in 1929. Both men climbed extensively in the Tetons
and rank amongst the most important of the great pioneering
mountaineers. Their legacy includes numerous first ascents,
many of the place names in the Park and the mountaineering
archives, including the summit registers.
Fryxell wrote an article about the summit registers that
appeared in
Trail & Timberline, Number 175,
May 1933, pages 59-60, 68. The images of those pages appear
here with the kind permission of the publisher, the
Colorado Mountain Club.