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SIERRA CLUB. 1956 BASE CAMP. Base Camp 1956 [cover title]. N.p., n.d. [1956]. 21.5x28 cm (oblong octavo), pp. [i-v] 1A 1-14 A1-A6 [A6a-A6b] A7-A74 [1-2] B1-B39 [B40: blank] [1-2] C1-C66 [1-2] G1-G52 + [1-18] leaves, mimeographed from typewritten copy, 22 plates, other illustrations in text, pictorial wrappers, gray cloth tape spine. First edition. A keepsake of the 1956 Sierra Club Base Camps. Three camps were established: at Emerald Lake (near the Minarets) in the Minarets Wilderness Area southeast of Yosemite National Park; at Bench Lake in the South Fork region of Kings Canyon National Park; and at Glacier Peak, Washington. The miscellany of essays and reports on these regions, compiled under the general editorship of Oliver Kehrlein, includes "Guide to the Upper Basin of the South Fork of the Kings River" a section providing the geologic, natural and human history of this region in Kings Canyon National Park, by Oliver Kehrlein and others, pp. G1-G52. A fine copy. (#179384).