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PANAMINT RANGE BACKPACK & PEAK BAGGING ADVENTURE - 2 to 5 May, '91 Join your DPS friends from San Diego Chapter for an enjoyable spring trip to the fascinating site of Panamint City in Death Valley. Meet Thurs. night enroute. Friday we backpack the abandoned road to campsite and explore ruins and petroglyphs. Saturday we plan both a strenuous cross-country attempt on Telescope Peek and a moderate route on Sentinel Peak. Home on Sunday. Send large SASE with experience, phone & carpool info (PRIOR to 25 April) to Gail Hanna (leader), 11076 Crown Point Dr., San Diego 92109. Assistants ares Richard Carey, Beth Davis and Fred Bright. Join us for a great trip! I

DESERT ALLURE Next time that you are near the Granite Mountains at the Intersection of Hwy 62 and 177, drive to the Iron Mountain pumping station, Just NE of the intersection. Look on the San Bernardino Auto Club Map. About a mile or two WSW you will find the remains of Gen. Patton's camp. Many tent locations are outlined with rocks, roads are visible, and two altars where church services were conducted. You will also find a relief map made out of dirt, showing the mountains around the camp. Maris Valkass

It is raining outside, a good sign for amateur botanists. Hope it goes on for a while and soaks away the dryness that we have been living with for such a long time now. So that we can see the ocotillo green up again and the chaparosa burst out in flowers to cheer up the hummingbirds and the desert lavender to cheer the bees. So that the lizards will come back again and start darting around in the washes and the coyotes multiply and sing for us at night and the kangaroo rats prosper with plenty of seeds to gather and visit us by the campfire to steal our granola and the kit foxes will be back again as cheeky as ever and drag away our shoes at night. And annuals sprout again like they did those blessed years a decade ago and adorn the desert with a colorful carpet of flowers so that you hardly have anywhere to put your feet if you do not want to crush them. Those were the days and may they come again!

-- Eric Jonsson

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