[pct-l] Ansel Adam's "The John Muir Trail" 1938 Book reprinted!

[Deems]

Peter is up there respectfully resting  for eternity, somewhere in these 
photos I shot during my JMT hike in 2005. I had to run a quarter mile during 
my morning coffee time to catch this photo from my stealth camp above Shadow 
Lake. Sometimes, I'm in the right place, and get lucky..
http://www.pbase.com/losthiker/image/55511247/original
http://www.pbase.com/losthiker/image/55561804

Subject: Re: [pct-l] Ansel Adam's "The John Muir Trail" 1938 Book reprinted!


> Thanks for the info. When I first started backpacking, Starr's Guide was 
> THE guidebook. (Kelty packs were THE packs.) It was really helpful because 
> it covered not just the JMT, but lots of access routes. It was also of a 
> size that could be easily carried with you. A few years after I bought it, 
> it went to a larger format. Thanks again for the info.
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> At 06:10 AM 12/6/06, Deems wrote:
>>I am not familiar with Peter Starr's "John Muir Trail." Is it a photo
>>book? I do have a well-used, by me, copy of a 1970 edition of
>>"Starr's Guide to the John Muir Trail and the High Sierra Region" by
>>Walter A. Starr. Are the two related?
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>>Pieces
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>>Walter Starr, Sr was Peter's father, and published his son's wilderness
>>notes into the "Starr's Guide to the JMT and the High Sierra Region" in
>>1934. Walter Starr Jr, "Peter", died in 1933 climbing Michael Minaret in 
>>the
>>current Ansel Adams Wilderness. Your book is the later reprint. There is
>>also another great book called "Missing in the Minarets" by William Alsup
>>that documents the massive search for Peter's body by many of the Sierra
>>climbing legends, Norman Clyde, Jules Eichorn, and Francis Farquhar. The
>>Starr's Guide (1934) is a great resource for finding xc routes and old
>>abandoned Sierra trails.
>>http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2003/novdec/features/starr.html
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