CHAIRPERSON'S CORNER	Mary Sue Miller
For many of us, our desert interests have been in estivation for the past few months while the lure of those "other" mountains to the west has been paramount. Like the Ancients who knew it was difficult to avoid Charybdis without encountering Scylla, we could almost hear the sirens call as we often cast our eyes to the east from some high Sierra pinnacle. Now that Autumn is upon us, we may feel nostaglia at losing our long days; however the scale balances to the positive side because we can anticipate the many pleasures of Desert Peaking. Whet your appetite by looking over the season's schedule and then sign up for the trips! Speaking of trips, I urge you to vote for the three long-time DPS members who are running for Ex-Com positions in the October elections. These three candidates have devoted many years of leadership to the DPS and are outings oriented, yet at the same time they are mindful of John Muir's philosophy that everything is hitched to everything else. Certainly this awareness is ground-level for any conservation leader. So you have a perfect combination in Bill Bradley, Ron Jones and Barbara Reber. To up-date Past-Chairperson Vi Grasso's article in the previous Sage on the proposed road to the Keynot Mine in the Inyo Mountains Wilderness Study Area, we are reporting from the July 21, 1982 issue of the Sierra Club National News Report that the Sierra Club has won a victory. In response to the Brief filed by the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund against the road construction, the developer dropped plans to build the road and has submitted plans to mine the area by helicopter. While some of us may be less than satisfied with the helicopter plans, at least the road has been stopped. The Sierra Club will continue to monitor development in this prime Wilderness Study Area until its eventual consideration for formal wilderness designation by Congress.
	See you in the desert,

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