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DanandDad
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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.
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Got the Colorado Trail Book for christmas, yeah!!! Right now I'm Reading John Sandford, "Deadline".
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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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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
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Fear and Loathing. Again.
Whats with Today, today?
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Sahara Unveiled by William Langeweische.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.)
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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.
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.
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Kelly Cordes "The Tower" 250 pages in and really enjoying it.
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