After a breakfast cooked over the flames coaxed by a few skilled and patient firemakers, we started our long descent to the bus awaiting at Valerie Jeans. Snow, we decided, would make Agua Alta Canyon treacherous. Under the leadership of seldom seen, but old time Desert Peaker Dick Kenyon, we dropped down a steep slope to Martinez Canyon and a miner's stone hut. From here it was an easy but long trek out the canyon to a date shake at Valerie Jeans. Botanists Louis Wheeler collected an exciting variety of plants which the uninitiated hurried by. Storms building up over the Santa Roses and Orocopias threatened, but brought only a pleasantly cool temperature. An Ample meal was enjoyed at the San Gorgonio Inn, which realty does mean "come as you are".
- Trudie Hunt
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ANNUAL BANQUET CONGENIAL SUCCESS    (April 3, 1963) Some 50 Desert Peakers and guests enjoyed cocktails, a delicious steak dinner, and an interesting, informative slide program at last month's annual banquet. The Black Watch Steak House in Temple City was the scene of this social get-together, highlighted by Howard Gulick's color slide tour along the old, unused mission trail in dry but scenic Baja California. Trudie Hunt deserves the heartfelt thanks of the section for her efficient handling of the arrangements for the affair. Probably the strangest thing about the banquet was seeing all those desert rats, peak baggers, and Baja bums dressed up in their Sunday best! It doesn't happen very often.
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CLIMBERS WANTED: Memorial Day weekend I am going on a hiking trip into some scenic areas in Arizona. I can take 1-2 riders. We will leave L.A. Wednesday afternoon, May 29, and return Sunday, June 2. Presently we're considering visits to Mt. Humphrey (highest peak in Arizona), Sunset Crater, Pine Mtn. Wild Area, Galiuru Wilderness Area, and Mica Mtn. If interested contact HARRY MELTS, 3534 W. 112th St., Inglewood, California.

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