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The 2014 American Alpine Journal just came out and there is a lot about Whitney, the Whitney area, the Sierra, and Sierra local personalities.

In Recon: Unexplored & Overlooked is a major section The Whitney Massif. Classic Routes, Hot New Lines, and a Blank Canvas for the Future by Doug Robinson, Amy Ness, and Myles Moser. This was work of love. Thanks. There are also pictures by many photographers including Richard Piotrowski.

In Climbs and Expeditions: Lower 48: Sierra Nevada, there are short reports: more by Myles Moser, SP Parker (who led me up the MR in 2006), and also David Nettle, Urmas Franosch, Timothy Gibson, Daniel Jeffcoach, and Scott McCook & Kyle Sox’s 2008 previously-unreported Evolution Crest traverse from Bishop Pass to Piute Pass.

All of this is incredible work on the mountain and on paper, but I laughed out loud at Myles’ description of the stop at the Whitney Portal Store for burgers and fries….. “Don’t miss your personal opportunity to be heckled by the one and only “Sandbag Senior,” Doug Thompson, a wealth of backcountry info.”

Sandbag Senior? Yes. I still have healing cuts on my legs from bushwhacking along Lone Pine Creek with Doug and Betsy 12 days ago looking for an elusive miner’s lettuce blooms. At least I got to see some of the original 1904 trail on the way back down.

Harvey

Doug presented me with a special hard-bound edition of one of these yesterday. Too cool!

We enjoyed the article of the Whitney Massif by Robinson, Ness, and Moser.

Robinson strikes again in Issue 48 (Autumn/Winter 2014) of the Alpinist where his feature article is devoted to the Palisades. He gives a well organized climbing history (much of it first hand information) of this region which has "allured decades of alpinists, eccentrics, and wanderers." It should not come as a surprise, but the reader will discover that many of players in Robinson's story are those who played significant roles in the climbing history of the Whitney Massif.

Looking forward to 2015, I find the articles by Robinson, Ness, and Moser to be quite motivating.

Thanks to these authors.

Jim

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Hi Doug,
I really appreciated all your help for me to be able to log in WPSMB.

After receiving a new password from you, I tried it on Internet Explorer. I was able to enter my username and password fine but the system was unable to let me log in.

So, I tried it on Chrome, it worked fine.
Rick G. suggested me to try it on Chrome last week.

Thank you again for your help and patience very much.

Shin