Whitey remains
profusive in his praise of our climbing team which was certainly a big help to
him, Jeremiah and his family. He reports that he has practiced carrying first
aid and extra clothes on hikes he has taken with his children since the
accident. He says we and the accident taught him a lesson.
The report
on Jeremiah. He had eleven (11) screws and a plate installed in his ankle, was
hospitalized for three days and as yet has no prognosis as to when he will be
recovered from the accident. He drove back to Tahoe with a cast on his leg.
Whitey reports that when the sheriffs team arrived they insisted that the ice
ax splint be removed and that an air splint be used instead. Whitey did not
like that idea but went along with it. Jeremiah found that option be much more
painful than the ice ax. The doctors at the hospital indicated that they wished
the ice ax had been left on as it provided better stabilization.
The
equipment will be mailed to Charlie on Monday. Lolo washed it all yesterday. --
Al Conrad.
DESERT TRAILS REMEMBERED
A Look at the
DPS Past
by Ron Jones
Five Years Ago August-September 1989:
DALE VAN DALSEM was DPS Chairman, ANNA LEONG VALKASS the SAGE Editor. A bad
period for the DPS as DPS List Finishers DICK AKAWIE died 8/15 of Leukemia and
NORM ROHN died 8/20 of a heart attack on the Taboose Pass Trail (the late
URSULA SLAGER performed the autopsy on Norm in Bishop). JOHN BACKUS had died of
cancer only a few months earlier. EDWARD ABBEY died in March 1989. Trips
scheduled this period included a backpack with 7 people down Havasupai Cyn to
the Colorado River by STEVE SMITH and RON JONES, Boundary & Montgomery and
Glass Mtn led over Labor Day by IGOR MAMEDALIN and SUZANNE THOMAS & White
Mtn led by SHERRY HARSH and MARY MCMANNES. LOU BRECHEEN and RON JONES led a
private party of 8 to the Guardian Angels in Utah.
Ten Years Ago 8-9/1984: CHUCK STEIN
was DPS Chair. BARBARA REBER the SAGE Editor. Trips scheduled this period |
include only White Mtn
and Waucoba with 16 folks led by SHERRY HARSH & OWEN MALOY. The Saline
Valley roads were in bad shape and Waucoba was canceled.
Fifteen Years Ago 8-9/1979: DUANNE
MCRUER served as DPS Chair, BARBARA REBER the SAGE Editor. New DPS members
included OWEN MALOY and JON LUTZ. ADRIENNE KNUTE earned her emblem on a private
trip with JOHN MCDERMOTT on 8/11.
DPSer JIM JENKINS died in a highway
accident 8/27. The SAGE reports that on August 16, 1925 V.C. Kelly, C.H. Bangs
and Joseph Holt made a first ascent of Kelbahoh Peak, the high point (sic) of
the Turtle Mtns.
Twenty Five Years Ago 8-9/1969:
JON VITZ served as DPS Chair, NEKO COLEVINS, the DPS Newsletter Editor (The
SAGE was named later). No trips during this period were reported on and the
September issue of our newsletter had an 8 page "short history" of the DPS
written by JOHN ROBINSON and including in each issue a glossy black 7 white
photo of a 1942 DPS trip to Waucoba Mtn.
Thirty Five Years Ago 8-9/1959 WALT
WHEELOCK served as DPS Chair, DPS Newsletter Editor was JO JONES with BOB
GREENAWALT listed as one of the Reporters. There were 135 members of the
Section. Members 35 years later include BOB GREENAWALT, FRED JOHNSON, JERRY
KEATING, BARBARA LILLEY, LOUISE WERNER AND WALT WHEELOCK. Other members then
who are no longer active include TOM AMNEUS, BUD BINGHAM, MILES BRUBACHER,
WILLARD & MARIAN DEAN, MARY DeDECKER, SAM FINK, ROGER GAEFCKE, RICH GNAGY,
HENRY GREENHOOD, MARGE HENDERSON, TOM, TRUDIE & PETER HUNT, MONROE LEVY,
BARBARA LILLEY, CHUCK MILLER, MAUREEN (MYERS) CATES, BOB MARSHALL, JOHN
ROBINSON, TOM ROSS, FRANK SANBORN (father of the SPS), BILL SANDERS, ANDY
SMATKO. ANDY SMATKO reported on a group of 11 climbing Mt Dubois via Middle
Canyon on 9/26. |