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DESERT PEAKS ANNUAL BANQUET, Wed., April 3 Trudie Hunt Save this date for an evening of fellowships with desert rats, climbers, Baja bums. We'll have a jolly social hour from 6:30 on, followed by a steak dinner, complete with salad, baked potato, french fried onion rings, ice cream and coffee. Our guest speaker wilt be Howard Gulick, whose Lower California Guidebook is the bible of all people who venture into Baja California below the superficialities of Tijuana. He has probably spent more hours exploring and mapping in Baja than any other North Americano. Pictures, of course! This is open not only to all Desert Peakers, but to their friends who want to taste the thrill of exploring in relatively untouched and wild country, with desert unequalled. Dinner, $3.75 at Black Watch Steak House, 8905 Las Tunas Drive, Temple City. Reservation deadline is March 22nd, with checks payable to Trudie Hunt, 19770 Lorencita Drive, Covina. 247 PARTICIPANTS ENJOYED 16 DPS TRIPS IN 1962 JWR 247 Desert Peakers and guests participated in 16 trips scheduled by the section in 1962. This is an average of 15.4 people per trip. Honors for the year's top turnout go to Bob Greenawalt's Telescope Peak traverse with 41 participants, 36 of whom made the hike across the Panamints. This was followed by the 28 on the joint trip with the Riverside Chapter to Argus Peak led by Bob Bear. No other trip saw more than 20 participants. 17 TURN OUT ON OLD DAD MTN. TRIP, DEC. 8-9 BB People arrived in camp Saturday from early in the afternoon 'till after midnight. In the evening a tire-fire lighted the sky and people in Baker must have had some worries about smog getting to their hometown. A miner drove up in the belief that evil people had come to steal his rocks, but did not seem to mind our warming fire. We were apparently camped near the hunting grounds of a desert fox, who closely watched our disposal of tidbits of steak, bologna and cookie crumbs. When almost everybody was asleep, he finished dinner with Tom Ross's Hawaiian Punch. Sunday morning we drove from camp, located on the east side of the mountain, around the south end of the range to a spot on the west side. (Roads from Baker directly to the west side of Old Dad are impassable.) Al Dageforde and Harry Melts led the main group from here to the summit, avoiding all false summits which is a fact worth mentioning, as there are at lLeast two to the south and one to the north. Four of the group who had been delayed by an extensive breakfast climbed the peak from the southwest via a steeper, possibly shorter route but third class in places. 17 people signed the register. There does not seem to be a valid reason for the fact that Old Dad Mountain is such a seldom climbed peak. We have rarely had a better view from a desert mountain. Below us to the east is a reddish volcanic area, to the southwest a "devil's playground", a dry Lake, and the Kelso sand dunes. San Jacinto, San Gorgonio, Charleston, and Telescope Peaks were all clearly visible. |
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