Angeles Chapter Sierra Club - Desert Peaks
SectionFebruary 21, 1994
MEMO FROM THE OUTINGS CHAIR
I am very happy with the great response I received from all the leaders. Thank you. There are 29 scheduled trips for the March through June schedule. I would suggest to keep encouraging new members to come and hike with the Desert Peaks Section.
With the return of mountaineering insurance we can now lead Little Picacho, Babo, Weaver's Needle, and Kofa from Palm Canyon. Any qualified leaders ("E" rated) interested in leading these peaks please contact me.
To all those Desert Sage readers here is a wonderful poem written by Everett Ruess.
Happy Journeys! Mirna A. Roach
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HAPPY JOURNEYS | |
Pledge to the Wind Onward from vast uncharted spaces, Forward through timeless voids. Into all of us surges and races The measureless might of the wind. Strongly sweeping from open plains, Keen and pure from mountain heights, Freshly blowing after rains. It welds itself into out souls. In the seep silence of thin blue air, High on a lonely cliff-ledge, Where the air has a dear, clean rarity, I give to the wind . . .my pledge: "By the strength of my arm, by the sight of my eye, By the skill of my fingers. I swear. As long as life dwells in me. never will I Follow any way but the sweeping way of the wind. I will feel the wind's buoyancy until I die; I will work with the wind's exhilaration; I will search for its purity and never will I follow any way but the sweeping way of the wind." Here in the utter stillness, High on a lonely cliff-ledge, Where the air is trembling with lightning, I have given the wind my pledge. |
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-Poem by Everett Ruess from On Desert Trails with Everett Ruess |
