A Visitor's Handbook and Desert Wildflowers, both published by The Stanford University Press and also in London. Drawing on the testimonials of literally hundreds of his students, Palaverites, and other associates, it can safely be concluded that he practiced not only celibacy but also chastity. I noticed a particularly fine red-headed boy. He amazed me with the gracefullness, agility and strength with which he tossed watermelons over to one of the other boys. Jaeger, who held to a Victorian-era conservatism, once remarked that people make too much of an issue of sex and that he would not have been able to spend so much time in the wilderness if he had a wife and children to care for.
Women are still taboo on palavers that continue to be held.
Jack M. Harris, who will lead the 88th palaver this weekend to an ancient trilobite site in the Marble Mountains near Amboy, said he honors Jaeger's vision of a male-only event that also excludes tobacco, alcohol, target shooting and motorcycles. Up to 100 people attend, several of them having come for 40 years. . I always figured it was an honor to be chosen to go.