[Evans, Marv]

When I was the Whitney Ranger, I'd walk up to the summit from the Crabtree Ranger Station reasonably often. One of the things I had to do was check on the toilets (don't know what's up there now). These were galvanized trash cans with thrones on top. When they were pretty full I radioed to Park Headquarters for a helicopter to come up with empty cans, hook up the full ones for them to take down to Owens Valley. In the old days, the trail crew emptied them. They'd come up on their horses wearing t-shirts that said "The Brown Bombers" on them. One time I asked them what they did with the full cans. Their answer was they took them over to the mountaineering route and dumped them down it. I was always glad I never did the mountaineering route.