| Dear Ron Jones, | May 12, 1991 |
Nostalgic Greetings from Tropical Guatemala. I hope that the Desert Peaks 50th was a glowing success and that you will write it up for the Sage (when did it get that name instead of DPS Newsletter?) And I hope you will send a copy. We are still Sierra club members but with no chapter affiliation.
I am amazed that though we have lived in Guatemala since 1967 that we have contact with two DPS chairs whom you do not.
Ralph Merten (who visited here years ago with wife Esther who always had a cold watermelon at the end of the trail). 1641 La Verde Dr., Lake San Marcos, CA 92069. Telephone 714-744-0916. Esther alas has Alzheimers and Ralph is caring for her at home as long as he can.
Harry Melts lives in his 4WD moving from Canada to Baja CA. His summer address is P.O. Box 15536 Vancouver B.C. V6B SB3, Canada. His winter address is P.O. Box 2010 Sparks, Nevada 89432. Both places merely forward his mail. Siina, from who he is divorced alas, lives in Creston Canada, also B.C. VOB lGO, Box 668. Harry stops in several times a year to see Bob Boyd: 16923 Hillcrest Star Route No, Edwards, CA 93523. Telephone 619-7694456. Both the Hunts and the Melts have Monkey Wards garage shed for storage in Bob's back yard. Bob is recovering nicely from a quadruple by pass.
I am writing all this in detail because I can remember nothing of my chairing the DPS in 1963. In my peak card file I note only one trip in 63- Walt Wheelock's lead of Smith Mountain in Death Valley Jan 20, 1963. I no longer have a schedule to refer to.
One memory is very vivid of our first Sierra Club hike led by Walt Wheelock on Sept 26, 1954, a death march to Bighorn, Ontario and Sugarloaf peaks up Icehouse Canyon in the San Gabriel's, a 9 hour, 16 mile trip ending after dark. With my short chubby legs I was trying to keep up with the long legged stride of Ralph Marten. He was encouraging us to try some desert peaks and I said emphatically. "I shall never climb a desert peak", not at that time knowing the beauty of the desert.
Our Desert, Hundred and Sierra Peaks emblems were stolen in 1982 in a house robbery. I wonder what they did with them?
Our mail service is so bad we have a courier service listed below:
| T.C. Hunt Club 747 Sect. 35 P.O. Box 52-7270 Miami, FL 33152-7270 |
 Trudie Hunt |
