[pct-l] After Action Report - Glen Dawson Visit

[Scott Williams]

Great post, and thanks for sharing it.

Shroomer

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:31 AM, <Hiker97 at aol.com> wrote:

> Yes, once again your PCT hero, Switchback,  has cheated death.  This time
> on a visit/lunch with Sierra pioneer, Glen  Dawson, at his Pasadena
> retirement home.  Meadow Ed and I braved the  traffic and rain soaked SoCal
> to have
> lunch with this historic mountaineer and  contemporary of John Muir.  Glen
> was born in 1912 and John Muir died in  1914.  His deceased younger brother
> was named Muir Dawson.   Glen was given an honorary Life Membership in the
> Sierra Club in  1921.  The certificate was signed by Sierra Club president
> William Colby.  Mr. Colby was secretary to John Muir when he was the  first
> president of the Sierra Club.  Glen was on the Norman Clyde  expedition for
> the first accent of Mt. Whitney's east face in the early  1930's.  Norman
> Clyde made more first accents in the Sierras than any other  person.
>  Several
> year's ago Glen was given an honorary  doctorate.
>
> His retirement home is a place Ed and I  want to live at if I have to move
> into a something like that.  What a nice  place.  There are 23 different
> ice
> cream flavors you can have at lunch and  supper for dessert, plus lots of
> other things.  All the food was first  rate.  Just the way Ed and I like
> it,
> plus we were the kids there.   The trouble was that a lot of the folks
> there
> seem to be doing better than  us.  Glen is very alert and likes to recall
> the post pioneer days in the  Sierras.  This was his generation.  He made
> an
> accent with others of  the last unclimbed 14,000 foot mountain in CA, plus
> other first  accents.
>
> For Meadow Ed, I had Glen sign a large two  picture sheet of Mt. Whitney's
> east face and the historic black/white  picture of the first accent group
> at
> the top after their historic climb.   Mine from last year's visit is framed
> and hanging in my den at home.   What a neat thing to have.  After  lunch I
> took Ed down to the Long Beach dock for the trip over to Santa  Catalina
> Island.  He was going there for Christmas.  A very  enjoyable holiday visit
> with Glen and Ed.
>
> Faithfully recorded and accurately  reported, your obedient servant --
>
> Switchback the Trail Pirate
>
>
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