[pct-l] Walter A Starr's Guide

[gschenk1 at roadrunner.com]

---- Heather McLean <kreekwa at gmail.com> wrote: 
> What a really odd coincidence - I picked up a copy of this (the 1970, 12th
> edition) at a St Vinnie's thrift store about 5 days ago. It got me curious
> so "Googled" Starr's name and read about him - it made the find all the
> more meaningful to read the words written by a young man who would soon
> lose his life in the mountains. Gave me goosebumps.

When we climbed the Black Kaweah the original register was still at the summit. Walter Starr had no pencil, so he'd jabbed his finger with a knife and signed in blood. That gave me goosebumps. That whole register gave me goosebumps.
http://hbfun.org/images/book_2.jpg

Gary