<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I had reason to contact Ruby Jenkins in 2004 and found her to be a kind, supporting, giving woman. The story you reference is about us too, her tribe, who find communion in the mountains. Thank you for letting us know of her passing.<DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Jim Keener ( J J )</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>510-698-6341 (home)</DIV><DIV>415-793-6176 (mobile)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 31, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Roslyn Bullas wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="859230417-31102007">One of the coauthors of the PCT guidebook to Southern California, Ruby Johnson Jenkins, passed away over the weekend. The Bakersfield Californian published an obituary that beautifully summarized her accomplishments as a later-in-life backpacker and an author, after her son J.C. Jenkins died in a car accident and she kept his legacy alive by authoring his guidebooks. (Mt. Jenkins in Section F is named after him.):</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="859230417-31102007"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="859230417-31102007"><A href="http://www.bakersfield.com/102/story/272143.html">http://www.bakersfield.com/102/story/272143.html</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="859230417-31102007"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="859230417-31102007"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="859230417-31102007">Roslyn Bullas</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="859230417-31102007">Managing Editor, Wilderness Press</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Pct-l mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Pct-l@backcountry.net">Pct-l@backcountry.net</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To unsubscribe or change list options (digest, etc):</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l">http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>