north to attempt Montgomery Peak. The ridge up the south side of Montgomery he pictures as rough, pinnacled, interesting, beatiful glaring white, and worth being scheduled sometime. But Fritz had to get back to town that night, so he turned back before going all the way to the summit. White Mtn., Black Mtn., Keynot - August 5, 6, 7. Bob Bear and Stan Migley the trip in Migley's jeep. On Saturday they drove nearly to the end of the Navy road on White Mtn. And ascended to the summit of White Mtn. Peak in 1-1/2 hours. On Sunday they climbed Black Mtn. at the end of a long ridge loading west from Westgard Pass. Bob states, "there is a respectable mtn. road most of the way out to the Mtn. giving access to a recently-operated mine. From the end of the road it is an easy 2 hour walk around Black Mtn's twin summit (only 10 ft. to 20 ft. lower) to the 9075' peak with a fair trail all the way." Bob and Stan then spent their remaining day climbing Keynot, 11,125' peak in the Inyo Mtns., north of New York Butte. Bob's account follows: "On Monday, we got an early start to climb Mt. Keynot, fearing it might prove a tough climb for one day. We drove the jeep to the end of a rough desert road up the wash draining the west face of Keynot to on elevation of about 5300'. (Road shown on Mt. Whitney Quadrangle just northeast of Owenyo). Very shortly after leaving the car we mounted the ridge splitting the 2 main forks of the canyon end followed its somewhat dog-leg course all the way to the main N-S crest of the Inyos at about 10,000'. Then we followed the crest S about a mile to the summit. Here, there was much evidence of prior visits including 3 cairns, 2 wood triangles, and numerous dry batteries. On one wooden triangle was a handwritten evidence that someone called the peak "Monarch". On this largely trailless, loose rock route, two fast climbers ascended in 5 hours and descended in 2 hours." Purely by coincidence, and on the same weekend, Marie and Eleanor Smith, and Fritz Sloman made nearly the some trip as Bob and Stan, only in reverse order. It was on Saturday that Fritz, Marie, and Eleanor climbed Keynot. They used a different route. Starting from French's Spring (take dirt road east, halfway between Mt. Whitney Station and Owenyo) in the big canyon south of the one Bob and Stan used, they made use of a good 8 mile long trail all the way to the top. Fritz ran on to this trail several months ago when he climbed New York Butte from French's Spring. The group found a sketch map, thrown away very recently by the Geological survey, which diagramed the half dozen or so major triangulation points in North East California. One of the points was "Monarch". Checking the latitude and Longitude, given on the sketch with the topo map, "Monarch" turned out to be peak 11,125 ft. elevation, or what has been known as Keynot. So it looks like the new maps will call it "Monarch". The next day, the three drove to the end of the Navy road on White Mtn. and climbed White Mtn. Peak. Fritz said it was no fun at all, with the new road to take you most of the way. I will certainly agree with him. Mountains of Utah, August 11 to 26. Leaving Los Angeles August 11, Irene Charnock, Marie and Eleanor Smith, and Margie and I made a two week's trip to some interesting out of state mountains. Between Bryce Canyon and Escalanto, Utah, we crossed the Escalanto Mountains which were very green, and densely wooded with spruce and aspen. At the road summit, well over 9000', we found two logging roads, branching from the main road. One went to Griffith Top and the other to Barney Top, both peaks over 10,000'. We started to drive to Barney Top, but after driving several miles, we ran into a logging operation, and many trees cut that morning blocked the road. If we had time, we would have hiked the rest of the way. These mountains certainly offer beautiful hiking country. Giant red and white cliffs stick out of the dense forests here and there. I certainly want to return to these mountains some day. Between Boulder, Utah, and Fruita, we crossed the Aquarious Plateau. This is a wild beautiful mountain area with separate forests of aspen and blue spruce, with grassy meadows separating them. Also those mountains offered lakes, gushing streams, and a grand view of the Henry Mountains to the east. Navajo Mtn. could also be seen. Three full days were spent in the La Sal Mtns east of Moab, Utah. (Maps which show the many good access roads into the La Sal and Abajo Mtns, were obtained from the forest ranger in Moab). Ten miles south of Moab we turned left on a good mountain road, and in 18 miles were in Geyser Pass at 10,500' where we set up camp in a flower-strewn meadow fringed with spruce and aspen. The following morning we followed the broad ridge north over a small peak east of Haystack Mtn. known as Mail Box (cairn, but no register) From here we droppod several hundred foot into a saddle to the north, then ascended Mans Peak (Approx. 12,700', 3 hours climbing time from camp). The terrain was very steep grass and moss covered slopes with many variety of small flowers. Near the top of each peak, steep talus formed bare cones of each summit. From Mans peak the ridge was followed east to Mt. Tomasaki (1 hr.) We wore detained for half an hour about 500 ft. below the summit waiting for a lightning storm to leave the summit. The sun was shining everywhere also. Tomasaki is about the same elevation as Mans Peak, but had the superior view - a view well worth the 1,000 mile trip to it. From its summit, the broad plateau-like saddle of Geyser Pass was a delightful combination of lakes, literally hundreds of grassy moadowe, dark green spruce forests and light green aspen groves. It is quite different from our Sierras, much more like the White Mtns. of New Hampshire, though on a grandeur scale. The next day we went to La Sal pass only 7 or 8 miles south of Geyser Pass, then we drove 40 miles to get there by dropping down the east side of the range. La Sal pass can be reached much easier from Moab by anothor route, but we wanted to see the Mtn. The following day we climbed Peal (13,089') highest in the range, and Tukuhnikivatz (approx. 12,800'). From camp in the saddle of La Sal Pass we went north along the bron ridge. Where a large canyon develops between Peal and Tukuhnikivatz, head for the east branch of this canyon, which is a small narrow canyon. Its head will still be west of

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