What are you reading?
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Re: What are you reading?
High Altitude Paradise, by James T. Williams.
A lifetime trek to visit all the lakes in RMNP
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Mr. and Mrs. Williams taught my kids in grade school. I had no idea they spent every summer exploring and photographing RMNP.
A great collection of photos and experiences over 34 years visiting RMNP.
A lifetime trek to visit all the lakes in RMNP
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Mr. and Mrs. Williams taught my kids in grade school. I had no idea they spent every summer exploring and photographing RMNP.
A great collection of photos and experiences over 34 years visiting RMNP.
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Re: What are you reading?
Got the Colorado Trail Book for christmas, yeah!!! Right now I'm Reading John Sandford, "Deadline".
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Re: What are you reading?
I got "Paddle your own canoe" by Nick Offerman and "Let me off at the top" by Ron Burgundy today, some good reads for my next deployment!
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Re: What are you reading?
There seem to be a remarkable number of mountaineering books published in 2014, including:
The Calling
One Day a Tiger
Tilting Mountains
The Call of the Ice
The Tower
Denali's Howl
Dead Mountain
The Calling
One Day a Tiger
Tilting Mountains
The Call of the Ice
The Tower
Denali's Howl
Dead Mountain
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Re: What are you reading?
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains - Jon Krakauer.
Glacier pilots, Valdez ice climbing, Denali, Gill bouldering, K2, and of course The Nordwand! Not much of a reader myself but this got me hooked pretty quick.
Glacier pilots, Valdez ice climbing, Denali, Gill bouldering, K2, and of course The Nordwand! Not much of a reader myself but this got me hooked pretty quick.
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Denali's Howl by Andy Hall
I'm almost done with it, and it's been a great book. I felt like the first two chapters or so weren't written so well, but near the end it is hard to put the book down.
I'm almost done with it, and it's been a great book. I felt like the first two chapters or so weren't written so well, but near the end it is hard to put the book down.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/037452287 ... c_redir=T1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
This was a gift for Christmas from an old friend. I think you would like it, I have.
This was a gift for Christmas from an old friend. I think you would like it, I have.
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I guess I should give this one another try. I got about halfway and couldn't finish it, since it was just re-reporting what was in the other four books I've read about this incident. It was interesting that the author was living in the park during the incident, although he was just a kid. I thought the two older books by the expedition's leaders ("In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Howard Snyder, and "White Winds" by Joe Wilcox) were an interesting point-counterpoint pair about what happened, although they might be hard to obtain at this late date. (spoiler alert: Snyder blames Wilcox, Wilcox blames freak weather.)aweygandt wrote:Denali's Howl by Andy Hall
I'm almost done with it, and it's been a great book. I felt like the first two chapters or so weren't written so well, but near the end it is hard to put the book down.
Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall — it's great when you stop. -- Chris Darwin
I'm pretty tired. I think I'll go home now. -- Forrest Gump
I'm pretty tired. I think I'll go home now. -- Forrest Gump
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Re: What are you reading?
John McPhee is awesome. His whole series on the geology of I-80 is great (collected in "Annals of the Former World"). I also enjoyed "The Control of Nature" - great stories about the engineering struggles of humans against a physical world that is indifferent to our existence.Jesse M wrote:http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/037452287 ... c_redir=T1
This was a gift for Christmas from an old friend. I think you would like it, I have.
Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall — it's great when you stop. -- Chris Darwin
I'm pretty tired. I think I'll go home now. -- Forrest Gump
I'm pretty tired. I think I'll go home now. -- Forrest Gump
Re: What are you reading?
Kelly Cordes "The Tower" 250 pages in and really enjoying it.
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'Life is too short to ski groomers'
"That man's only desire was to stand, once only, on the summit of that glorious wedge of rock...I think anyone who loves the mountains as much as that can claim to be a mountaineer, too."-Hermann Buhl, Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage