Sierra Club Desert Peaks Section Sierra Club
Howland Bailey
Active in the DPS: 1966-1989 Active in HPS DPS SPS
How Bailey has been a prolific leader for all the peak climbing sections. How made a game of connecting all his peak climbing routes in the San Gabriels with canyon and ridge hikes he often did by himself. He retired from a long and successful career as a physics researcher at the Rand Corporation and now lives in Santa Monica. For many years How maintained the register cans on HPS summits.





How Bailey descending Old Baldy after
leading midnight climb summer of 1976

Photo by Bob Cates
Photo by Dick Worsfold

How Bailey in 1969

How Bailey slide undated
but circa late 1980s

Dick Worsfold Collection
Sierra Club-Angeles Chapter Archives
From the Robert & Maureen Cates Collection How Bailey at
Les Reid's birthday party
held at Mary Ferguson's house 1977


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

1966 Joined the Desert Peaks Section
1966 DPS Emblem on Palen Mountains
1968 Hundred Peaks Section John Backus Leadership Award
1968 Vice Chairman - Hundred Peaks Section
1969 HPS List Completion
1969 Vice Chairman - Hundred Peaks Section
1969 Vice Chairman - Hundred Peaks Section
1974 Member - West Los Angeles Group
1975 Vice Chairman - West Los Angeles Group
1976 Member - West Los Angles Group
1978 Angeles Chapter Outings Service Award
1980 Member - Activities Administration Committee
1980 Treasurer - Chapter Executive Committee
1981 Member - Activities Administration Committee
1981 Treasurer - Chapter Executive Committee
1981 Member - Financial Advisory Committee
1982 Treasurer - Chapter Executive Committee
1982 Member - Financial Advisory Committee
1982 Hundred Peaks Section R. S. Fink Service Award
1983 Angeles Chapter Chester Versteeg Outing Award
1983 Member - Financial Advisory Committee
1984 Navigation Chairman - Leadership Training Committee
1985 Navigation Chairman - Leadership Training Committee
1986 Navigation Chairman - Leadership Training Committee
1989 Last year active in the Desert Peaks Section
1991 HPS Pathfinder Emblem on Modjeska Peak

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