Mount Rixford

6-Oct-56

By: John W. Robinson

From the Angeles Chapter Schedule

From the November 1956 issue of Southern Sierran

SIERRA PEAKS SECTION
MT. RIXFORFD, OCT. 6-7 (1956)

--John Robinson

Eight somewhat dubious SPS knapsackers started out from Onion Valley Saturday morning in spite of tghreatening skies. Upon reaching Kearsarge Pass we found ourselves amid strong winds and black clouds with rain beginning to fall. Realizing that a real storm was approaching, we beat a hasty retreat back to our cars and got down into the Owens Valley just ahead of heavy snows. Five of us decided we'd had enough and went home. The three others, thoroughly chilled to the bone, headed for Death Valley and joined the Desert Peakers on warm Sentinel Peak.

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Note: History-minded SPSers need to remember that the SPS gained final approval for its founding from the Angeles Chapter Executive Committee in October 1955. Officially scheduled trips began in 1956, and The Sierra Echo wasn't published until February 1957. Consequently, much of the early SPS trip information appeared in the Angeles Chapter Schedule or Southern Sierran.