Spreading Charlie’s Ashes

Charlie Whitmore made a deathbed request that his ashes be spread on each of the 315 mountain peaks authorized by the Southern Arizona Hiking Club.  Richard Kane, his hiking friend, is in the process of honoring this request.  So far, the Club has spread his ashes on 176 peaks and thus have only 139 to go.

See Tom Miller, Hiking Club Spreads a Little Bit of Charlie on Every Peak, NY Times, Jan. 25, 2007, who reports:

Ever since Mr. Whitmore’s ashes were sent from El Encanto Memorial Crematory in two sturdy boxes, they have been stored in the Kanes’ house in Tucson. Mr. Kane often carries some with him in small prescription bottles to give to club members he runs into who are planning a hike. “I can dish him out to others that way,” is how he puts it.