DID YOU KNOW? (continued)

And now I can't get back. The rope won't reach that tree I'm dangling here so free I will never forget those famous words "It will never happen to me,"

Vice-Chairman Arky Erb and Barbara Lilly did the summer up brown by scaling Mt. McKin1ey in Alaska. This is the world's highest mtn above its own base, just about two San Jacintos, all 2O,OOO' of it. How would you like to have a desert breakdown with the car and limp in at a garage only to find an Open House where the mechanic started things off by serving punch and cookies, then provided tools for a do-it-yourself operation? This took place on the recent scouting party of Hungry Bill's, We recommend Andy's Garage in Trona. Quick one-day topo sheet service is offered by Westwide Maps @ 114 W 3rd St. LA 13. Just state your quad and send 6O¢ in stamps. Beats going downtown for that last minute trip idea. Scheduled trip leaders are to be sent new mountain register books to be placed on the peaks, and their dates recorded. Each register contains a post card, on which pertinent data is recorded, and then forwarded to the Mountain Records Committee at Mills Tower in San Francisco. Great idea! Right now our registers are pretty sloppy. Each new peak will have a number. SENTINEL PEAK-HUNGRY BILL~S RANCH KNAPSACK TRIP CANCELLED - Oct. 3-4. The first scheduled DPS trip of the new season must necessarily be cancelled. The leaders recently scouted the area and found that early August record cloud-bursts had wrought havoc in Surprise Canyon - only entrance to Panamint City, and proposed meeting place of the Hungry Bill Ranch overnight trip. Though Inyo County road equipment got in and cleaned up the heavy debris, it is not advisable to expect anyone to drive their car up the canyon in its present state. Four-wheel drive vehicles can do it with caution however. The most severely damaged portion of the road (what road?) lies in the Narrows area 3 miles up in the canyon. Hungry Bill was an old Indian who lived up on the eastern slope of the Panamints, just over Panamint Pass, and east of Sentinel Peak. He was one of the last remaining Indians in the area and had been told by his father of the 49er happenings and how the Indians looked down into the Valley of Death and saw the wagon trains as they came to a halt on the westerly side of that desert floor. How long the Indian camp has been there is anyone's guess but there are still remains of crude shelters and undoubtedly the adjoining spring is ever-running. The camp itself is still unscouted. To my knowledge, the only known visitor there has been Gus Hamilton, SC member, and he was there during World War II, His party hiked from Trona to Furnace Creek., Some walk!! My interest in the area stems from our Sentinel Peak, located on the USGS Telescope Pk Quadrangle. From Panamint City, with its majestic old brick smelter stack still standing, one must climb up Frenchman's Canyon to the summit of Panamint Pass. From here Sentinel lies 3/4 miles to the south, in line with its more famous northerly neighbor, Telescope Peak. The downhill trail enters Johnson Canyon directly to Hungry Bill's. Information is scarce on the Ranch but one account made by Carl I. Wheat, Death Va11ey historian deluxe, adds delight and wonderment to the area. The following is the story of "Hungry Bill Talks" that, appeared in Westways Magazine, June 1939:

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