DESERT PEAKS SECTION - NEWSLETTER NO. 52 ANGELES CHAPTER - SIERRA CLUB
				December 1, 1957
Dear Desert Peaker: The dedication trip to MOUNT INYO left vivid memories with the 19 eager beavers who waited for their leader (yours truly) to show up in Lone Pine at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 19. Things started auspiciously Saturday morning - sunny, swell view of the Sierras and a semblance of a trail - including lunch with fresh flowing water. From there on things became increasingly rough. First the trail disappeared. Then, when we relocated it - it went straight up a scree slope practically at the angle of repose. As we churned up the tread mill, the weather clouded up and the winds arrived. In a pine-cone carpeted gulley at the 9500-foot site of an old mine, we made a windy camp. Up at five Sunday morning, we were greeted by lowering clouds, which wreathed all neighboring ridges and blotted out all distant views. At five-thirty, Lilley, Ross and Sanders headed for Mt. Keynot as a warm-up for Mt. Inyo. The rest of us took off at six, with snow flurries now further limiting visibility, not too sure we would even make Mt. Inyo. By heading uphill we managed to get to the top, and so did the Keynot trio about an hour behind us. It took a compass to get us back to camp, as the snow came down increasingly heavily. To prove how scree-filled the trail was, the downhill trip to our cars took only 2 hours, versus 6 hours up to camp. We planted our register all right, but we really had a workout in the process! The BUS TRIP TO DEATH VALLEY on November 2-3 likewise ran afoul of the weatherman. To avoid showers, many people "slept" in their bus seats on Saturday night. However, Walt Heninger saw his party to all scheduled points to visit and got it home just ahead of the milkman Monday morning. The party made the long climb of Avawatz Peak from Sheep Springs Saturday. Sunday they made the much easier climb of Funeral Peak and subsequently took in Dante's View for good measure. All reports were unanimously favorable of another swell Heninger-conducted Greyhound trip. November was a fruitful month for OUTLAW TRIPS. Over Veterans Day week end, the Hunts, Bob Boyd and John Robinson earned two points on their Qualifying List. First they snow-climbed Glass Mtn., where they enjoyed incredibly clear views of the White Mts. and of the Sierra Crest from Sill to Conness. Discouraged by reports of heavy snow on Mt. Jefferson, they headed home via Death Valley Junction, where they picked up nearby Pyramid Peak. Later in the month Chuck Miller and Graham Stephenson knocked off three other qualifying desert peaks during a week's vacation trip. They reached the summit of the Big Marias in easy fashion, but ran into some snags on Clark Mt. and Providence Peak. Since I, too, found those peaks a bit elusive upon occasion, I can sympathize. Needless to say, Chuck and Graham merely lost some time on Clark and Providence, no doubt negotiating them in less time than any scouted scheduled trio would ever make them.

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