Forty-one Sierrans reached the 11,127-foot summit of Glass Mountain, California, on a weekend hike last spring. |
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of avoiding boulders, usually
present on scree slopes, was almost absent on this one. Even the
sixty-year-olds in the party slid down with an abandon that belied their years.
It was the most exciting scree-run we had ever encountered, losing over a
thousand feet of elevation in 15 minutes. Obsidian chips rang like Chinese
chimes as clouds of powder billowed about the hilarious queue. When Ken Merton,
nine, finally ran out of slope he hollered, "Let's go up and do it again
Pop!" Had time permitted, Pop and the rest of us would have agreed. It bad been an easy climb up, a fast slide down Lloyd Balsam's intriguing Glass Mountain. |
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SEARCH OF CHAPEL RUIN MAY FIND KINO'S GRAVE NOGALES-Just across the border from here, at Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico, archeologists are unearthing what they believe may be the grave of Father Eusebio Kino, builder of Spanish missions in the Southwest. The search is being conducted at a ruin believed by its discoverer, Col. Gil Proctor, U. S. Army, Ret., to be the chapel of San Francisco Xavier, where eighteenth century historians recorded the priest died and was buried in 1711. The ruin follows the floor plan of the usual religious center in the old Southwest - chapel, vestry, priest's room and enclosed courtyard used as a cemetery. -Phoenix Gazette |
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