TREASURER'S REPORT
by Ron Grau
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For the period of 03/01/94 thru 04/30/94, the DPS
had income of $1780.00 and expenses of $853.93, for an ending balance of
$5760.83. The new DPS T-Shirts are available! Colors include: light blue, ash,
or white. Get one today! There re are still some DPS Sweatshirts with the old
style logo available. The DPS Merchandise Order Form is on the back of the
Sage. It lists the other DPS merchandise which is available. -- Ron Grau
EDITOR'S CHANCE
By John
McCully |
There were a couple of deaths last month that might
interest peak baggers. One was Frank Wells, 62, the president of the Walt
Disney Company, who died about five miles East of Ruby Dome in a helicopter
accident in Thorpe Creek Canyon. Frank was involved with Dick Bass in the
original attempt on the seven summits back in the early 80's. Frank dropped out
of the attempt on the seventh summit (Everest), in order to head up
Disney.
Dick continued on and managed to be the first person to pull off the
seven summits. Several years ago Dick gave the SPS banquet talk about his
adventures. Elsewhere in this issue Duane McRuer discusses Doug Mantle's recent
seven summit finish. Frank Wells was quite famous as an executive and his death
was widely reported in the business press.
I'm indebted to Tom Sumner
for sending along an LA Times article on the second death. of Chester
Tollakson, 58. He was also working on the seven summits, and also only needed
Everest to finish. According to the Times he died in a fall when only 100 feet
from the top of San Jacinto. an HPS just East of Palm Springs. He was climbing
San Jac via Snow Creek in a white out and in icy conditions. He was with Steve
Reneker, 38 of Riverside, and Benjamin Chapman, 36, of Long Beach. They had
begun hiking at 5:30 AM and the accident occurred about 7PM. The LA Times is
not clear about whether he was on snow and Bill Gray heard from a Ranger that
he was belaying the others on some rocks. The place where he fell is extremely
steep, and he fell several hundred feet and halted in a bowl, suffering severe
head injuries. Considering the number of ordinary peak baggers that have done
Snow Creek without incident it seems unlikely that such an experienced and
accomplished mountaineer would die on this route.
Doug Mantel writes:
"... long ago Barbara Lilley became the first female Triple List Finisher, but
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some bureaucratic hubbub, it may not
have been 'official'. Then Barbara Magnuson did it. Now, I hear Tina Stough and
Vi Grasso are in a snarling, savage battle for the honors to be #3."
Tina did the HPS list in a record time of 9 months about 12 years ago, creating
quite a sensation. Since she finished the SPS list in 1992 she only needs to
finish the DPS list for her triple. Vi is cranking away at the more fearsome
SPS list. My sources tell me that now that ski season is over Tina has turned
her laser vision on the DPS list and should finish within a few weeks.
A number of people have commented on the poor quality of the photographs in
the last issue of the SAGE. Ron Jones used a very good print shop in Orange
County, Lightning, which made quite an effort to make his pictures look
professional. For cost and convenience I've started using STAPLES, a low cost
provider. For this issue Anna Valkass has given me a gizmo that "dithers" the
photos and the result of this effort appears in this issue.. It seems that
rather than submit to the indignity of the last issue only one person submitted
any photos for this issue. The lone submittal was from Wynn Benti Zdon, who had
the good sense to do her own dithering, probably with a zillion dollar machine.
I took some great slides of Barbara Cohen squeezing Dan Richter's breasts, but
COSTCO accidentally developed them as prints. Next time I'll mark "SLIDES" with
a magic marker rather than just checking off the box. I did get a free roll of
film (slide) out of it. Another change that you may have noticed is that I've
started using a flatbed scanner (an AVR 300 CL Plus) to convert some of your
submissions to uniform type. It'll probably take some time before I get the
kinks out of this procedure and come up with some uniform look for the SAGE. Or
maybe it's better to have a chaotic look, kinda reflects the section. Dave
Jurasevich must have some new computer stuff that he's going to use for the
next edition of the peaks guide, check out his write up in this issue of his
climb of Castle Peak on March 19.
NEW TRIP ADDED, NOT IN
ANGELES
CHAPTER SCHEDULE |
I: Boundary (13,140'), Montgomery (13,441'):
Drive dirt rd to 10.000' then strenuous 8 mi, 4,000' gain It climb of
highest peak in Nevada and DPS emblem pk via ridge from CA side. 4WD helpful.
Send SASE, H/W phones, 4WD/rideshare info to leader: FRED CAMPHAUSEN, Asst:
WYNNE BENTI-ZDON. |