[pct-l] 1953 Edition Starr's Guide to the JMT

[Jeffrey Olson]

My 1962 Starr's Guide also lists trails that have since been abandoned.  
I wish I had a summer to just explore the southern sierra and it's 
abandoned trails... A nice goal!!!

Jeff/

On 3/27/2012 10:45 AM, Edward Anderson wrote:
> HI TORTOISE,
>   
> I still have a 1953 worn and tattered edition of Walter A. Starr's  "Guide to the John Muir Trail and High Sierra Region".  I have had it since it first became available in 1953 - the date of copyright. It is the first edition. It has been along on many, many, of my Sierra backpacking and climbing trips. It was my guidebook when I hiked the JMT in 1957. I would never part with it. It is precious.
>   
> MendoRider-Hiker
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> I still have two editions -- the 11th revised edition (1970) and the 12th
>
> revised edition (date unknown) which I found waterlogged on the JMT,
>
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> On Nov 9, 2010, at 12:09, Don Amundson<amrowinc at hotmail.com>  wrote:
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>> Well I'm not an old-timer on this list but I do remember the Starr book which I lost somewhere in my many moves.  Mine was from around 1960.  Now I'm tempted to get another copy.  I see Amazon has it.
>>
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>>> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:05:38 -0800 (PST)
>>> From: Edward Anderson<mendoridered at yahoo.com>
>>> Subject: [pct-l] Vintage JMT Guide Book by Starr
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>>> 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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