Credited his eyebrows for keeping him warm on mountain climbs
Wolf Bauer was born on February 24, 1912, in the Bavarian Alps and died on January 23, 2016.
He was a German-born American mountaineer and environmentalist.
Wolf started the Mountaineers’ first climbing course and helped create the Mountain Rescue Council.
Bauer also launched kayaking in the region and was an outstanding skier.
He commenced a successful campaign to preserve the Green River Gorge.
Bauer drafted a “Natural Shorelines Act” with ideas that were incorporated into Washington’s landmark Shoreline Management Act.
Wolf attended the Lincoln High School.
He has a ceramic engineering degree and he studied geology at the University of Washington in 1930.
Hubert Bauer was his wife, a German with a university degree in economic geography. They married, and Wolf was the first of their five children.
Wolf Bauer was one of three scouts selected to receive a free membership in The Mountaineers.
The young mountaineer knowledge of Alpine techniques and his natural competitiveness soon made him a standout among the club’s skiers.
Himself wolf and four of his intermediate course graduates were the first to scale Mount Goode, a 9,200-foot peak in the North Cascades that had stymied some of the region’s best climbers.
The historian Lowell Skoog said, Wolf won what was perhaps the first slalom race west of the Mississippi in March 1930 at the club’s Meany Ski Hut.
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