DESERT PEAKS SECTION NEWSLETTER NO. 49 Angeles Chapter - Sierra Club
				May 27, 1957
Dear Desert Peaker: What's the next and biggest event on the DPS calendar? It's none other than the TRIENNIAL BANQUET, coming up Sunday afternoon, JUNE 16, at the RAINBOW ANGLING CLUB, in AZUSA! With an ideal outdoor setting, we have an exceptional speaker in our fellow Desert Peaker, WELDON HEALD, on a timely subject, the proposed national park encompassing 13,061-foot Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada. Although we wear city clothes at our Banquets, they are always SOCIABLE, INFORMAL affairs, Weldon plans his presentation as an informal discussion supported by slides. Here is your opportunity to get to know a former Director of the Club, who knows and loves the desert as much as any of us and whose books and articles are constantly in front of any western traveler and desert lover. TICKETS, at $3.50 each, or $2.00 for children under age 12, may be purchased from Jerry Zagorites, 308 Armel Drive, Covina, telephone Edgewood 9-7840. Reservations should reach Jerry no later than Thursday, June 13. There are lots of Section activities to recount since our last Newsletter. First is the highly successful trip Polly Connable and Virgil Lewis led to MANLY PEAK, above the south end of Panamint Valley, on April 6. Polly delivered to a sizable crowd the flowers, mines and ghost towns she promised. The weatherman provided a sunny day, but scared half the crowd to an early departure with a bit of wind Saturday afternoon, which fortunately died down after dark. Those who remained to camp the second night in the Ballarat mesquite oasis scattered Sunday to such diverse places as ghostly Panamint City and swimming at Valley Wells, near Trona. Everyone who climbed to Manly Peak's 7,196-foot summit, complete with mammoth class 3 rock climb summit monolith, was sure it deserves to be a QUALIFYING PEAK. Even the Van Pappelendams and Walt Heninger who jeeped up Goler Wash and met the hikers near the head of Redlands Canyon, found the final trailless scramble a strenuous workout. The hike up Redlands Canyon provides a view of spectacular dry Manly Falls, right at the mouth of the canyon, with a strategically located spring about halfway up the canyon. Our April 30 DINNER MEETING came off on the scheduled date, but certainly not at the appointed place. A last-minute discovery that the planned meeting place had closed operations forced your Chairman to some frenzied scrambling before he located the Ontra Cafeteria, at 8th and Vermont, as a substitute spot. I couldn't believe my eyes when some 35 old-timers and newcomers showed up. Trudie Hunt deserves all the credit for getting out a last-minute card telling everyone of our changed plans. Everything conspired to drag out our dinner meeting longer than planned. First, Parker Severson had to make a hasty trip home to

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