I read about the Halloween party in the Desert Sage and the Southern Sierran. I wish I could have gone to it as well as past ones, especially since they were so close to San Diego. But my daughter's family always visits me at Halloween and I can't leave them for an outing.
The mud caves are interesting, aren't they? But I've grown "qweezv" and afraid about entering them anymore. Three major active fault zones are close together in the Anza-.Borrego area. The Elsinore Fault Zone and the San Jacinto Fault Zone go right through Anza-Borrego State Park, while the San Andreas Fault Zone is close by near the east edge of the Salton Sea (it goes right through the Mecca Hills). In fact, the Arroyo Tapiado mud caves are only four miles east of the Tierra Blanca (Mountains) Frontal Fault -- this is one of the principal lateral strands of the Elsinore. Also, four faults go right through the Arroyo Tapiado and the Arroyo Seco Del Diablo area of the Vallecito Badlands. All cave features are subject to instantaneous collapse with no warning. I dread the thought of being trapped by a closed entrance and of being buried alive.
Anyway, I'm glad you had a good time!!!
For many years in the past, Robert Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" syndicated feature was a popular and standard one--read by most of America, I'd say. He had many believers!
Here is a quip I just found in my annals--one I clipped from a Tampa FL newspaper during WW II military days.
This DPSer feels it cannot be done in the quoted time and is not a believer.
Any comments?
The Chalfarit family name is well preserved in Owens Valley history.
-Bob Greenawalt
Dec 1993
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Dear Ron and Leora: I can't let this go by without saying something about both you guys working to produce the best Desert SAGE in town. Ski & I read it like a good book. Not just when it springs out of the mailbox under full staple tension, but rather when the sun has set & at the end of Larry King Live, when the fight begins over the presorted mail. We'll miss your creative editorship, Ron, & your fervent urging for people to know and appreciate the desert through visitation and reading quality reports. You have somehow gotten more people to write desert peaking stories while also publishing much of the other news that fits. Desert Peak Section members know that you have passed the baton wisely to a new and respected leader and editor. But we'll still miss your "happy trails" signoff and wish you the same: "Happy Trails", and more besides. There's more time for youd Leora to lead trips out there and climb on your own. Don't forget to mail in your writeups in time for the next issue of the SAGE.  |