[pct-l] Vintage JMT Guide Book by Starr

[Tortoise]

I do remember it and carried and used it on some of my trips on the JMT.

I have later versions of this guidebook -- 11th Revised edition, 1970; and 
a Sierra Club totebook version of a later date which I can't locate just now.

Tortoise

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On 11/08/10 17:05, Edward Anderson wrote:
> I still have this tattered old guide book that I bought in 1953. It is: "Guide
> to the John Muir Trail and the High Sierra Region" by Walter A Starr, Jr. It was
> first published in 1934, a year after Starr's death. Starr was lost while
> climbing in the Minarets An extensive search followed. His body was finally
> found by Norman Clyde My copy was published by the Sierra Club in 1953. It
> measures 5" x 7.5" x 3/8' thick and weighs just over 5 ounces. It is the only
> guidebook I used during my early wanderings in the Sierra.
>
> Do any old-timers on this list remember this guidebook?
>
> MendoRider
>
>
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