Desert Peaks Section Angeles Chapter Sierra Club

Jerry Keating
From Jerry Keating's Colloction

Active in the DPS: 1958-2005
Active in DPS SPS
Vice chair of the San Fernando Valley Group during its first year of operation (1960) Jerry started climbing with the SPS on a May 1957 Olancha Peak trip led by John W. Robinson and Rich Gnagy. Jerry began leading for SPS in 1959 and has continued doing so since then. Having finished the SPS DPS and HPS lists his current focus is on introductory trips. He once led a spring climb to Pyramid Peak in the Lake Tahoe area that was so cold that John Robinson's sandwich froze. But more often it was rain that marked Jerry's trips including two successive rainouts of Mt. Hitchcock climbs that forced a third and fortunately successful try a year later. While living in Sacramento from 1961 to 1967 Jerry and two other past SPS chairs (Charles B. Miller and Frank Sanborn) formed a Northern California leader contingent that made it easier for the SPS to schedule trips throughout the range. Other leaders living in the area were drawn in further enhancing the SPS scope.

January 17 1965 independent trip to Mexico volcanoes. Summit shot on Iztaccihuatl with Roy on right; John Peckham on left; Jerry Keating at center. At that time all three were SPS/DPSers but living in Mother Lode Chapter.

	Jerry Keating opening can of tuna fish during Sierra Peaks Section outing to the Buckeye Pass area of the Sierra Nevada August 1975
Jerry Keating during an independent trip organized by Andy Smatko to the Seven Gables area of the Sierra Nevada August 1974
	Jerry Keating showing off his sun protection gloves during an independent backpack in the Grand Canyon that was organized by Gordon MacLeod in April 1982.

S I E R R A C L U B C H R O N O L O G Y T H R U 2 0 0 6

1958	Joined the Desert Peaks Section
1958	DPS Emblem on Pyramid Peak
1958	SPS Emblem
1960	Member - Chapter Schedule Committee
1960	Publicity Chairman - Mountaineering Training Committee
1960	Vice Chairman - San Fernando Valley Group
1960	Chairman - Sierra Peaks Section
1960	Associate Editor - Southern Sierran
1961	Publicity Chairman - Mountaineering Training Committee
1961	Secretary - Sierra Peaks Section
1968	Alternate Officer - Sierra Peaks Section
1969	Schedule Chairman - Sierra Peaks Section
1970	Schedule Chairman - Sierra Peaks Section
1971	Mountain Records Chairman - Sierra Peaks Section
1971	SPS Senior Emblem
1972	SPS List Completion on Table Mountain
1973	Program Chairman - Sierra Peaks Section
1974	HPS 200 Peaks Bar
1975	HPS List Completion
1976	Angeles Chapter Chester Versteeg Outing Award
1977	DPS List Completion on Cerro Pinacate
2004	Member - Chapter History Committee
2005	Member - Chapter History Committee
2005	Member 50 Anniversary Committee - Sierra Peaks Section