Sierra Club Desert Peaks Section Sierra Club
Bill Crookston
Active in the DPS: 1949-1959
Active in DPS Local Hikes HPS NSS

Betty & Bill Crookston were very active in mountaineering. They have moved to Northern Calif."
John Nienhuis

Bill in a photo labeled
"Scouting Party Eagles Rest";
no date but assume c. 1952

Photo from the Elsie and Eric Kent Collection
Photo by Niles Werner
Louise & Niles Werner Collection

With Sierra Club group on summit
of Owens Peak May 8 1949

Group shot unspecified location & date
(but c. 1948). Bill is in back.

Elsie and Eric Kent Collection
Sierra Club-Angeles Chapter Archives
John Nienhuis Collection
Sierra Club-Angeles Chapter Archives

Bill and Betty Crookston May 1951
at an unspecified location.

Bill Crookston posing on
unidentified brushy summit
circa late 1940s.

Photo by Niles Werner
Louise & Niles Werner Collection
Sierra Club-Angeles Chapter Archives


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1949 Joined the Desert Peaks Section
1950 Member - Harwood Advisory Committee
1950 Member - Harwood Lodge Buiding Committee
1950 Member - Projection Equipment Committee
1951 Member - Harwood Lodge Buiding Committee
1951 Member - Projection Equipment Committee
1952 Member - Harwood Lodge Buiding Committee
1952 Chairman - Projection Equipment Committee
1956 Representative to - Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs
1958 Representative to - Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs
1959 Representative to - Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs
1959 Last year active in the Desert Peaks Section

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