to the virus at
the last minute and your Chairman couldn't locate one single solitary person in
or out of the Section who planned to make the trip. It looked like a lonesome
week-end for the Bears at Cottonwood Springs until Walt Heninger put in a call
Friday night after the Boos. Bros. Meeting with the welcome news that the
competing trip to Delamar Mtn. Had been called off and quite a group of
would-be skiers would be pleased to enjoy a balmy desert week-end. Which is
exactly what it turned out to be for some 52 of us, with a nifty sunset and
sunrise thrown in to delight the photographers. Jerry Zagorites led some 17 of
the sociable and energetic San Diego group up to join our outing. Besides
lending lusty voices to our camp-fire song-fest and hiking around with us, they
quickly snapped up the three copies of the guide I took along for advertising
purposes. Once again Bill Henderson rendered the Section a yeoman service by
taking over the leadership of the climb and getting fourteen of us to the top
and back in record time. The five palm oases and the rugged granite formations,
not to mention the expansive summit view, amply rewarded those who scrambled up
and down the largely trailless route. Peak Climbers included Bill and Marg
Henderson, Barbara Lilley, Jerry Zagorites, Gene Vinson, Skip Johnson, Willard
Dean, Elgin Pierce, Georgie White, Leroy Arnold, Dorothy Campbell, Glen Warner,
Muriel Pope, and Ye Editor. A much larger group, including such DPS celebrities
as Marie and Eleanor Smith and Bernice and Walt Heninger enjoyed the 8 mile
hike to Lost Palms. Baby-sitting Desert Peakers were Mesdames Dean and Bear.
The DISTRIBUTION OF THE INITIAL ISSUE OF THE GUIDE material was
agreed to be the rightful chore of the Mountaineering Committee which produced
it. As out-going Chairman of the Committee, I am therefore using this letter as
a vehicle to ask all members who have not yet obtained a copy of the Limited
First Edition to send in their order to me by return mail. If you wish it
mailed to you, send in 75¢ with your order. The added quarter over the
basic rate is to cover mailing costs. Otherwise, specify some scheduled Club
event in town where you can take personal delivery, and I'll endeavor to get it
to you there. Distributions of the Guide for the time being will still be
restricted to members of the Section and the Club Directors. However, we are
very interested in developing as wide a demand for the Guide as possible so as
to reduce costs per Guide - and incidentally to spread the gospel of our desert
peaks. Therefore we shall supply orders for all sources after March 1st,
charging $1.00 to non-DPS-members, regardless of mode of delivery. The
mimeograph stencils have been carefully preserved, so that supplemental
editions can be run if the demand justifies it. In the meantime, of course, our
new Mountaineering Committee is going ahead with its program for new material
for the next issue of the Guide.
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Here's
to the biggest year in DPS history,
Bob Bear, Chairman
Desert Peaks Section |
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