Sierra Club - Desert Peaks Group

[SpiderLegs]

So I've stumbled on this website before, but never spent much time on it: http://angeles.sierraclub.org/dps/aboutus.htm

Started to poke around some more and am beginning to think that the western Arizona desert peaks have seen more activity from Californians than from the hometown crowd. The site also has triplogs going back almost 50 years. One thing that I found interesting is apparently Big Horn Peak has another peak registry that is buried underneath the current one. It's a glass bottle with a registry that starts in 1941. May have to return next year to find out.

[chumley]

Re: Bighorn Peak ... the glass jar registry might be buried with the benchmark that I couldn't find up there.
For now, I'm just gonna blame sbkelley, until facts prove something different. ;)

[SpiderLegs]

Kept poking around and found some triplogs up to Humphreys from 1950. Will have to force myself to do something else today or this website will be a giant time suck this afternoon.

[azbackpackr]

So I've stumbled on this website before, but never spent much time on it: http://angeles.sierraclub.org/dps/aboutus.htm

Started to poke around some more and am beginning to think that the western Arizona desert peaks have seen more activity from Californians than from the hometown crowd. The site also has triplogs going back almost 50 years. One thing that I found interesting is apparently Big Horn Peak has another peak registry that is buried underneath the current one. It's a glass bottle with a registry that starts in 1941. May have to return next year to find out.

I've hiked with those guys before, back in the '70's. I sure do notice, as you said, their presence in hikers' registers on obscure peaks. For instance, my "own" little Flat Top Mountain in Eagar has a register originally placed by the Desert Peaks Section.

[FOTG]

@SpiderLegs

Kept poking around and found some triplogs up to Humphreys from 1950

Could have been one of Chumley's older trip-logs??

[chumley]

@friendofThundergod
Watch it there young whippersnapper! Those be fighting words! Plus it only makes 1-800 that much older

On a different subject, you should check out the ridiculously full head of hair I got going on right now. It's been called the chumfro by some. One of my friends even starts singing "believe it or not" whenever I walk into the room cause it pretty much looks like this:

[sbkelley]

For now, I'm just gonna blame sbkelley, until facts prove something different. ;)

:whistle: Hey, when you get up something and there's no room left in the register, it gets a little frustrating and sometimes that means gravity and the glass jar don't play together well...

Actually, that is a little strange that there wasn't a jar up there. There certainly was in 2012 when I was up there

[sbkelley]

But to answer your question, there's plenty of the AZ crowd that gets out that way, it's just not as well-organized as the Sierra Club Desert Peaks Section. In my experience out that way, I'd wager a good chunk of cash that most peaks you scramble up contain "Bob Martin", "Bob Packard", "Gordon McLeod."