| SEPTEMBER 1994 | **Our 54th Season** | 233 |
A VIEW FROM THE CHAIR
by Dan Richter
| A few nights ago while high in the
Sierra I looked up into the southern sky and saw Orion rising above the horizon
with a Perseid flashing through it. I sensed the coming of the fall and the
change of the seasons. Soon we will be out among our desert peaks again. We
will leave the high passes for car camps and for the most part put our
backpacks away till spring. The deserts begin to cool as the days grow shorter
and soon we will heading east into the Mojave, Death Valley, and beyond. We have many wonderful and varied climbs scheduled for the coming season. Our leaders and Outings Chair Greg Roach have put together a very full schedule of trips of all kinds and for everyone from beginners to those of us that like the more challenging climbs. With our climbing insurance back we now have the opportunity to begin to schedule restricted trips which I hope our M and E leaders will be doing. Patty Kline and I will be leading the "Old Timers" climb of Granite and East Ord on Saturday and Sunday February 26th and 27th. The car camp Saturday night after Granite promises to be a major blow Out. Please come join us. McCully keeps pestering me to mention "2001: A Space Odyssey." Yes John, I choreographed the |
opening "Dawn of Man" sequence and
yes, I was the man-ape who touched the monolith and threw the bone in the
air. To quote Bob Dylan: "Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now". The mountains keep us young, it is there that we are free. I would like to close remembering dear Ursula Slager who died this week on Norman Clyde.  Ursula loved our peaks and the
climbing of them so much. I last climbed with her this spring on Tin and Dry.
We climbed for a while together and remembered when we first met three years
ago on Deerhorn. I loved her spirit, her humor and most of all her strength.
May we all climb until we can climb no more. --August 23, 1994 |