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REFERENCES
References to whitewater are now in rec.boats.paddle
Climbing references will shortly be moved to rec.climbing
Scouting references moved to rec.scouting
This is not intended as a comprehensive list.
What do you want? Hand holding in the wilderness? Part of the
adventure is in the the self-discovery. This is just a start.
Try a library.
For instance, climbing and backpacking is the 796.5[012] section (Dewey)
or the G 505-510 and GV 190-200 in the Library of Congress section (how do
I know that? I've spent a lot of time there). You can find other topics
in
similar areas. Are you familiar with Books-in-Print?
Just look.
You can't learn all wisdom from a book, but think of a book
as containing the "syntax" of wisdom. In the past, none of these books
existed, so their contents get better thru time.
BOOKS, Dave Roberts published a fine review of beginning mountaineering
books in the 1971 Ascent. While those books were obviously dated, the
qualities of the review (all bad) were good. Roberts characterized
"Nine Deadly Sins:"
Sin of anachronism
Sin of atavism
Sin of provincialism
Sin of over-specificity
Sin of technique for it's own sake
Sin of equipment freaking
Sin of dullness
Sin of moral didacticism
Sin of ignorance
Considering these when getting ANY book.
How-to-get started
The Role of Reading How-Tos
To this day I cannot read "how to" instructions in printed form.
Psychologically, these are indigestible for me.
--Stan Ulam, Adventures (Mis-Adventures) of a
Mathematician
Every half decent guidebook and climbing/outdoor book warns/notes that
it is not possible to learn the activity by reading a book. So why read?
Basically to prepare you in advance for field work with human instructors,
mentors, etc. Reading makes their job easier and you progress faster by:
1) Terminology exposure -- you hear/read the verbage
2) Learn the syntax which yields a sequence and the beginnings
of priorities (values and judgments).
3) Learn an initial understanding of semantics.
Backpacking:
%A Colin Fletcher
%T The Complete Walker
%X Get the most current version available (III or IV).
%X This book unlike most books tries to convey the feeling.
Also try (for enjoyment):
%A Colin Fletcher
%T The Thousand Mile Summer
%X Realize that trip was done in 1958 before the outdoor fad.
Not a how-to book.
%A Colin Fletcher
%T The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher
%D 1988
%X It is suggested that one read Robert Pirsig's
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" first.
%X Subtle.
%A Colin Fletcher
%T The Man Who Walked Through Time
%X Account of a backpack the length of the Grand Canyon.
Especially enjoyable for GC boaters out there.
%A Colin Fletcher
%T River
%X Account of a modern day raft down the length of the Grand Canyon.
A man in the sunset of his life, reflecting backward.
Especially enjoyable for GC boaters out there.
%A H. Manning
%T Backpacking One Step at a Time
%I [Not Mountaineers]
%C ???
%K children section,
%X Get current (Green?) edition.
%X Enjoyable cartoons by Bob Cram.
%X More enjoyable Bob Cram cartoons.
%A John Hart
%T Walking Softly in the Wilderness
%I Sierra Club Books
%C San Francisco, CA
%D 1984
%X Can't out-Fletcher Fletcher, but comes close
%X First useful reference on minimum impact ideas
%A Bruce Hampton
%A David Cole
%T Soft Paths - How to enjoy the wilderness without harming it
%I Stackpole Books
%C Harrisburg, PA 800-READ-NOW
%D 1988
%A Steven M. Cox, ed.
%T Mountaineering: the Freedom of the Hills, 7th edition
%I The Mountaineers
%C Seattle, WA
%D 2003
%O
%X This book is regarded as a Bible in some circles. Weighs as much as a
good
sized one, too. It takes a somewhat religious attitude to what it written
as the word for the Mountaineer's climbing class.
%X Comprehensive text on mountaineering
%X The 7th edition is the most current
(but I don't think it has the enjoyable Rob Cram cartoons
as previous editions do)
Bruce Cockburn - The Trouble With Normal
Most climbing references have moved to the rec.climbing FAQ.
Food and Cooking
%A Yvonne Prater
%A Ruth Dyar Mendenhall
%T Gorp, Glop and Glue Stew: Favorite Foods from 165 outdoor experts
%I The Mountaineers
%C Seattle, WA
%X Highly recommended by Backpacker
%E Sukey Richards
%E Donna Orr
%E Claudia Lindholm, eds.
%T NOLS Cookery
%I NOLS Publications
%C Lander, WY
%D 1988
%X Excellent discussion of nutrition, bulk foods, and rationing
%A Stephen Herrero
%T Bear Attacks - Their Causes and Avoidance
%I Lyons & Burford
%C NY
%D 1985
%O ISBN: 0941130827 http://www.amazon.com
%X The Table of Contents:
1) Grizzly Bear Attacks
2) Sudden Encounters with Grizzlies
3) Provoked Attacks
4) The Dangers of Garbage and Habituation
5) Other Attacks
6) Aggression without Injury
7) The Tolerant Black Bear
8) The Predaceous Black Bear
9) Avoiding Encounters
10) Characteristics of Bears
11) The Evolution of Bears
12) Bear Foods and Location
13) Signs of Bear Activity
14) Learning and Instinct
15) Aggression and Submission
16) Bears and People in Rural and Remote Areas
17) Bear Management
%X This text is part of the r.b. roaming "Library of the Net."
The conditions for shareholding: $1 and price of postage.
This offer only good in the US (only two known exceptions).
You have to be willing to make public a mailing address (think
closely about this if you like your privacy: women especially).
You can buy your own copy of use a library faster than this.
That's not the point. Email for details.
%X Page 142:
"Of the many chemical compounds such as mothballs, ammonia, and mace
that have been tested as bear repellents, those containing capsaicin,
an active ingredient of cayenne peppers, have shown the most promise.
.....
"Another commerically available chemical repellent which has shown
promise with limited testing on BLACK bears is called "Skunker". It
uses the active ingredient which skunks spray to defend themselves.
The current limitations of all chemical repellents are the
preliminary nature of testing, their short range, the difficulty of
accurate delivery if a person is excited, and their potential for abuse.
Their seven-to-thirty-foot range means last-minute delivery to
a bear and this would have to be done under very difficult conditions
if a bear were charging full out. Wind could aid to severly deflect
the spray. Chemical repellents are NO SUBSTITUTE for avoid
bear confrontations, but they may be useful in repelling curious bears,
especially black bears, that might become aggressive if not repelled."
%X [Addednum from Herrero:
Bear Attacks Their Causes and Avoidance -- Stephen Herrero - revised
edition
United States and Canada 1990's
29 people killed by bears
18 -- grizzly bears
11 -- black bears
Perspective -- 1977-1998
250 people killed by dogs]
%A Tracy I. Storer
%A Lloyd P. Trevis, Jr.
%T California Grizzly
%I University of California Press
%C Berkeley
%D reprinting November 1996
%A Frank Craighead
%T Track of the Grizzly
Craighead, Frank and John Craighead. How to Survive on Land
and Sea. Naval Institute Press, (4th edition, 1984), $17.95 0-87021-278-8
%A Doug Peacock
%T The Grizzly Years
%X Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness by Doug Peacock is
written in a style reminiscent of the work of Edward Abbey (for instance,
Desert Solitaire) who happened to be one of Peacock's closest friends.
Peacock isn't trained as a biologist but it is a good bet that he knows
more about the everyday biology of grizzly bears than most degreed
biologists. That's because as soon as he returned from the war in Vietnam
(he was a medic) he hit the high country and found a life among the
grizzly bears. From the early '70s on, Peacock has spent his summers
living in the wilderness (employed seasonally as a fire lookout) studying
and
the reading quick and easy and that is effective in passing on a few
im****tant lessons. As one who has been charged more than 40 times by
grizzlies but never once actually attacked (i.e., not even a scratch),
Peacock seems to know what he's talking about.
This book should be required reading from anyone planning to spend much
time in 'grizzer bear' country.
From: dnelson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Dan Nelson)
%A Stephen A.Pyne
%Z ASU
%T Year of the Fires
%X History professor and fire chronicler extraordinaire
If you're interested in why we started fighting fires, you need to read
that book. I give it a rating of four pulaskis (out of four).
Bob Lee
%A Kennan Ward
%T Grizzlies in the Wild
%A Thomas McNamee
%T The Grizzly Bear
%Q Wa****ngton National Wildlife Federation
%T Grizzly Bear Compendium
%A Wayne Lynch
%T Bears: Monarchs of the Northern Wilderness
%I Mountaineers Books
%C Seattle, WA
%X This is the new definitive reference book for all
species of northern bears. Lynch acknowledges that the book is loaded
with facts, but says in the preface, ÒAlthough I hope biologists and bear
res
live in bear country and who want a better understanding of the bears
with which they live.Ó
That is exactly what he accomplished. A great resource to answer any
question about bears.
From: dnelson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Dan Nelson)
%A Ian Stirling, ed.
%Z Canadian Wildlife Service
%T Bears: Majestic Creatures of the Wild
%I Rodale Press
%X A good secondary companion piece to the Lynch book.
Explores a bit more of the scientific details of bears, and while it
isnÕt difficult to read or understand, the text isnÕt of the same
excellent
From: dnelson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Dan Nelson)
James Gary Shelton
BEAR ENCOUNTER SURVIVAL GUIDE
Pogany Productions
Box 355
Hagensborg, B.C.
Canada V0T 1H0
%A Bernard DeVoto, ed.
%T The Journals of Lewis and Clark
%I Houghton Mifflin Co.
%X Meriweather Lewis and William Clark's
account of their expedition. I picked up a paperback edited by John
Bakeless
rather than reading the entire book.
donna@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Donna McMaster)
%X Actual journals of both captains as they forged through the wilderness.
%X It is incredible the hard****ps these people endured. From baking
temperatures in summer to 40 below in winter with nothing but skins for
clothing and moccasins for footwear; living mostly off the land. Forging
into unknown territory through some of the toughest country in the west.
%X Lugging boats up river with sharp stones cutting their feet, bugs
eating them, prickly pear going right through their moccasins, only the
most primitive medicines for their ills and injuries.
%X No lightweight tents, Gore-tex, hiking boots, fancy stoves, packaged
foods. Grizzlies chasing them numerous times and to top it off,
contending with hostile Indians.
%X And now we think we're roughing it.
Try it, you'll enjoy it.
Klondike Geoff
%A Anne Zwinger
%T Run River Run
%X Again I'm off-track since she's a naturalist,
certainly not "against" nature but I thoroughly enjoyed this story of her
canoe and raft trip down the Green River from its source to its confluence
with the Colorado.
donna@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Donna McMaster)
%A John Murray, ed.
%T The Great Bear
%X A compilation of some of the best nature writersÕessays on
the mighty bruins. Featuring works from
the likes of Edward Abbey, Frank Craighead, Jr., William Kittredge,
Aldo Leopold grizzlies but never once actually attacked (i.e., not even
a scratch), Schullery, this anthology is definitely a great source of
entertainment and education.
%A Charles F. Outland
%T Mines, Murders, and Grizzlies, Tales of California's Ventura Back
Country
%I Ventura County Historical Society
%O ISBN 0-87062-173-4 (paperback)
%A Stewart Townend
%T Mathematics in S****t
%O ISBN 0-85312-717-4 and ISBN 0-85312-719-4
Climbing Rock
This section moved to rec.climbing FAQ.
%A William Bueler
%T Mountains of the World, A Handbook for Climbers and Hikers
%I Mountaineers
%C Seattle
%D 1978
%K high points
%A Ernest Wilkinson
%T Snow Caves For Fun & Survival
%A James Wilkerson, M.D. Ed.
%T Medicine for Mountaineering and Other Wilderness Activities, 4th
Edition
%I The Mountaineers
%C Seattle
%D 1992
%O 0-89886-331-7 $16.95
%X TAKE A FIRST AID CLASS.
%A Fred Darvill
%T Mountaineering Medicine: A Wilderness Medical Guide, 13th Edition
%I Wilderness Press
%D 1992
%O $5.95 0-89997-155-5
%A James A. Wilkerson, MD Ed.
%A Cameron C. Bangs, MD
%A John S. Hayward, PhD
%T Hypothermia, Frostbite and Other Cold Injuries
%I The Mountaineers
%C Seattle
%D 1986
more research oriented
%A W. R. Keatinge
%T Survival in Cold Water
%I Blackwell
%C Oxford
%D 1969
%A Jacques LeBlanc
%T Man in the Cold
%I Charles C. Thomas Publisher
%D Springfield, IL
%D 1975
%A Guido di Prisco
%T Life Under Extreme Conditions: Biochemical Adaptation
%I Springer-Vrlag
%C Berlin/NY
%D 1991
%X Proc. of a Rome Conference.
%A Peter Steele
%T Far From Help! Backcountry Medical Care
%I Cloudcap
%C Box 27344, Seattle, 1991
%X similar to "Medical handbook for mountaineers" published by Constable
in UK.
%A William Forgey
%T Wilderness Medicine
%I ICS Books
%D 1987
%O $8, 0-934802-37-8
Orienteering
%A Bjorn Kellstrom
%T Be Expert in Map and Compass
%I Charles Scribner's Sons
%C New York, NY
%D 1976
%X Oldy but goody; best intro to Silva system
%X Available from any Boy Scout merchan. dist.
"American Practical Navigator"; Bowditch; U.S. Navy Hydographic Office
%A W. S. Kals
%T Land Navigation Handbook
%I Sierra Club Books
%C San Francisco, CA
%D 1983
%X Learn how to use that altimeter, understand declination
%X Excellent for hints and unconventional thinking
%A Glenn Randall
%T THE OUTWARD BOUND MAP & COMPASS HANDBOOK
%C Vancouver
%I Douglas & McIntyre Ltd.
%D 1989
%A Thomas L. Saaty
%A Paul C. Kainen
%T The Four-Color Problem: Assaults and Conquest
%I Dover
%C New York
%D 1986 (1977)
%K 4CC,
%X Stated:
Four colors are sufficient to color any map drawn on the plane or
on a sphere so that no two regions with a common boundary line
are colored with the same color.
%X Builds to proof by
Wolfgang Haken and Kenneth Appel (UIUC)
10^10 operations, 1200 hours of Cyber compute time.
%A Kenneth Appel
%A Wolfgang Haken
%T The Solution to the Four-Color Map Problem
%J Scientific American
%D October 1977
%P 108-121
Any winter travel -- any person who ignores this critical subject deserves
to become loam.
%A David McClung
%A Peter Schaerer
%T Avalanche Handbook, 2nd ed.
%I Mountaineers
%C Seattle, WA
%D 1993
%X This is as detailed as it gets.
%X $12-$20.
%A Ron Perla
%A Martinelli
%T Avalanche Handbook
%I USDA
%X This is as detailed as it gets.
%X Inexpensive.
%X Updated by McClung and Schaerer.
%A Ed LaChapelle
%T ABC of Avalanche Safety, 2nd ed.[?]
%I The Mountaineers
%C Seattle, WA
%D 1985, 1978, 1961
%X $5.95
%A Tony Daffern
%T Avalanche Safety for Skiers and Climbers
%I Rocky Mountain Books
%C Calgary
%I Cloudcap Press
%C Seattle, WA
%I Diadem Books
%C London
%D 1983
%X It seems to have reasonable references (Perla, LaChapelle, conference
re****ts, etc.). It covers route finding, mountain weather,
snow structure and metamorphasis (with some neat snow crystal pictures
from
Perla), avalanche types, hazard evaluation, rescue, and first aid.
The avalanche chapters in general
books such as "Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills" was not complete
enough).
%A Michael P. Ghiglieri
%A Charles R. Farabee
%T Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite
%I Puma Press LLC
%D March 2007
%X Summary of fatalities, accident, murder, suicide in the Park.
%A Thomas M. Myers
%A Michael P. Ghiglieri
%T Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon
%I Puma Press LLC
%D March 2001
%X Summary of fatalities, accident, murder, suicide in the Park.
%A Thomas M. Myers
%T Fateful journey: Injury and death on Colorado River trips in Grand
Canyon
%I Red Lake Books
%D 1999
%A Lee Whittlesey
%T Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National
Park
%I Roberts Rinehart Publishers
%D June 1995
%X Summary of fatalities, accidents, in the Park.
Some notoriously BAD books as well: Books to avoid:
Books by Bridge, Casewit, Ullman, Bastille, Kingsley.
Avoid wasting your time, but they offer op****tunities to critique.
Anything authored by Curtis Casewit.
James Ramsey Ullman (was said, "He's in the penalty box") Ullman
clearly wrote the the best known, most popular works pre-1970.
Ullman was invited on the '63 Everest expedition as a token gesture
to raise funds from a publi****ng company:
The Age of Mountaineering, Americans on Everest, The White Tower (bad),
Straight Up (John Harlin, II)
Avoid the Icecraft book by Norman Kingsley.
Some works by Jeremy Bernstein. His writing is fair.
Dave Roberts also reviewed the basic form of all climbing
autobiographies. They largely all read the same. To quote Roberts in
the 1974 Ascent:
Alas, no mountain climber has yet written a good autobiography. ...
Climbing autobiographies are written, usually by men (and an occasional
woman) who are still in the thick of it, ... In short, too close to their
subject to see it well. Another basic flaw stems from the form which
every
autobiographer seems to chose whether out of habit, imitation, or simple
laziness. Namely, a chronological recipe of major climbs and
expeditions. V.S. Pritchett, the Engish writer who waited until his
late 60's to to begin his own autobiography, warned in a lecture once that
"chronology is the death of a vast amount of autobiography." The writer,
he argued, ought to view what he is doing as "conducting a search," not
"traipsing down chronology." ...
So impersonal, in fact, are most climbing autobiographies, that one
could
well paste together from them a kind of Standard Life, and thus do away
with the need for writing any further ones:
Start with the Anemic Childhood...
Proceed with Early Poverty and Crazy Stunts.
...Interrupted by -- First Encounter with Death...
Fame. (At last.)
And with it, the first strange tones of public modesty.
Fused with the discovery of an inner invincibility. ...
Somewhere about here, life intrudes in the form of
Marriage -- to a hitherto-unmentioned, henceforth hazy female. ...
On to other things. There are, alas, too few new worlds to conquer, and
fame and marriage have taken their toll. The climber does well to
undergo,
at this point, a Deeper Experience in the mountains....
And at last, a Summing Up?
So cynical? So bad? Roberts takes six pages and makes a very strong
case.
His arguments touch every major climbing book to that point, and these
generalize to all subsequent books. He regards Patey's and Menlove
Edward's
book "Samson" as perhaps the two best books written. The latter is
heavy stuff (very much like Alan Turing). Anyways, we'll say no more
and let you discover the above for yourself (as it should be in a
wilderness).
%A Heinrich Harrer
%T Seven Years in Tibet
%X Recently made into a so-so film. Visually interesting.
You might ignore some of the dialog, it gets lost in the translation
(or lack of).
Film: "Seven Years in Tibet": a Protestant view of Buddhism.
Film: "Kundun": a Catholic view of Buddhism.
Really! Just another opinion.
%A David Roberts
%T Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative
%X About the unsuccessful attempt by Roberts and Don Jensen (Jensen pack
and the Jensen Bombshelter Tent) to climb Mt. Debroah in Alaska.
Interesting
introspective reading.
%A David Roberts
%T Great Exploration Hoaxes
%A David Roberts
%T Moments of Doubt
%I The Mountaineers
%C Seattle, WA
%D 1986
%X Anthology of short non-fiction articles.
%X Roberts made part of his living (after leaving mathematics)
by outdoor instruction and as an English prof in the NE. During this
time he wrote for Outside Magazine. This volume is a collection of
Outside articles and other works. The title derives from a very
powerful article about the loss of two very close friends
(one in Boulder and the other in Alaska [Huntington]). The chapters
"Rafting by the BBC" and "Burnout in the Maze" [for any outdoor ed
types] were pleasant surprises. Unfortunately, some of Robert's most
im****tant and controversial articles on "The Failure" of American
women's expeditions are included. Other subjects include people:
Messner, Roskelly, and others. A cute article on bouldering.
%A David Roberts
%T On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined
%I Simon & Schuster
%C NY
%D 2005
%X So Galen Rowell was a big snorer.
%A Kenneth Brower
%T The Star****p and the Canoe
%I Harper and Row
%D 1978
%K Freeman and George Dyson,
Robin Graham: The [Voyage of the] Dove
%A Joshua Slo***
%T Sailing Alone Around The World
%I Echo Library
%D September 2006
%X current edition.
John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley, and others
%A Felice Benuzzi
%T No Picnic on Mt. Kenya
%I Dutton
%D 1953
%X The real account of two Italian POWs during WWII who escaped after
fa****oning climbing gear from kitchen utensils. They got up the
3rd summit. All the more interesting because it happened.
%X Parters: Giovanni (Giuan) Balletto, MD and Enzo Barsotti.
%A Lionel Terray
%T Conquistors of the Useless
%T Les conquerants de l'inutile
%I Editions Gallimard
%D 1961
%I Editions Guerin
%C Chamonix, FR
%D 1995
%I Mountaineers
%C Seattle
%D 2001
%X Possibly one of the best greatest autobiographies.
Editions Guerin is reproduced with a loving care unmatched in the US.
%X "A mes comrades de corde'e, morts en montagnes" - Terray
"To my friends killed climbing." --rough translation by Geof. Sutton,
US edition (a little inaccurate).
%A Patrick McManus
%T They Shoot canoes, don't they?
%T the grasshopper trap
%T A fine and pleasant misery
%T watchagot stew" - with recipes, cowritten by his sister
%T kid camping from Aye! to Z"
%T A Fine and Pleasant Misery
%I Owl/Holt
%C New York
%X All stories (except those in the last two books: stew and kid)
are short pieces which appeared
in Field+Stream or Outdoor Life's "The Last Laugh" column.
%X campfire reading.
%X Patrick McManus is not likely to be as well known among the
newer age Backerpacker crowd, but he is a long time contributer to the
rod and gun club set. He is a contributor/editor to magazines like
Field and Stream, Scouting, etc. Conservationist rather than
preservationist set.
"A Fine and Pleasant Misery" refers to camping.
It covers many of the topics familar to older hands as cyclic topics:
Fires *and stove), sleeping, bags, shoes/boots, etc.
%A GJF Dutton
%T The Ridiculous Mountains
%A Jack Kerouac
%T Dharma Bums
%X Though it isn't educational.
%A Peter Steele
%T Doctor on Everest
%I Hodder & Stoughton
%D 1972
%X It's an account of being the doctor on the 1971 Everest
expedition. It was an international expedition that attempted
both the West Ridge, and the South West Face, and unfortunately
ended in acrimony. Anyway, I think it's a good book, partly
because it's a lot more human than the "Hard men, hanging by a
hair of Nanga Parbat" of Chris Bonnington et al.
Popular with many readers and requiring a perverse sense of reality
are the writings of the late Edward Abbey best known for
%A Edward Abbey
%T Desert Solitaire
%D 1968
%A Edward Abbey
%T The Monkey Wrench Gang
%D 1975
%X one of the first eco-rebellion novels
and a slew of short collections and novels. Abbey defies simple
characterization, he would want it that way.
"Civilization is the kid with the Molotov cocktail,
culture is the LA cop or Soviet Tank which guns him down."
--St. Ed, DS
as Rod Nash knows as my personal favorite.
%A Edward Abbey
%T Down the River
%T Journey Home
%T The Brave Cowboy
%X From review of film: ...
shoddy and simple-minded song of hatred for twentieth-century American
society.
The New Yorker
%X Exactly! Exactly what I meat the book to be.
I am quite pleased by the reviewer's observation.
Abbey
%T Hayduke Lives (and other 'Hayduke' novels)
%T Black Sun
Free Speech: The Cowboy and His Cow
Univ. of Mont. 1985 Commencement address
in One Live at A Time Please
Abbey Web page:
http://www.abalon.se/beach/aw/abbey.html
Lesser well known is Farley Mowat. Numerous texts.
%A Farley Mowat -_The Top of the World trilogy
Vol I, _Tundra_ (the exploration of the NW Territories)
Vol II, _Ordeal by Ice_(search for the NW Passage)
Vol III, _The Polar Passion_ (race for the North Pole)
These are collections of original sources (extracts from
expedition
logs, etc.) with commentary by Mowat.
%A Farley Mowat
%T The People of the Deer
%X A heart_breaking account of the modern fate of the inland tribes
of the Northwest Territories.
%A Farley Mowat
%T The Siberians
%X anyone reading it also read any articles about Siberia and Lake Baikal
which have appeared in _National Geographic_ in the last two years.
It seems ole Farley had a huge blind spot when it came to questioning
the amount of effective dissent and input local peoples (particularly
those living in "autonomous" Soviet republics) had in making
decisions affecting their homes and homelands.
Pity, though. And I rather doubt that whoever acheives defacto
steward****p over those lands next will do better, but it's pretty sad to
see what is happening and imagine that we'll never know what we've missed.
Photography
most any book by Ansel Adams
There are other authors. Look and shoot. Trial and error.
HISTORY and THINKING:
%A Roderick Nash
%T Wilderness and the American Mind, 4th. ed.
%I Yale U. Press
%C New Haven, CT
%D 19?
%A Roderick Nash, ed.
%T American Environmentalism: Readings in Conservation History, 3rd
%I McGraw-Hill
%D 1990
%X Interested in deep ecology, overpopulation, the s****tsman's role, more?
%X Nash includes selections that sometimes present alternative views to
his
%X ~1750 until present
%A Roderick Nash
%T The Rights of Nature
%I U. Wisc. Press
%C Madison, WI
%D 1988
%A Joseph Sax
%Z UC Berkeley, Boalt Law School
%T Mountain without Handrails
%I Univ. of Mich. Press
%C Ann Arbor, MI
%D 1980
%X Excellent reflections on wilderness and national parks.
%X "To the uninitiated backpacker, a day in the woods can be, and
often is, an experiece of unrelieved misery. The pack is overloaded;
tender feet stumble and are blistered. It is alternately too hot or too
cold.
The backpacker has the wrong gear for the weather or has packed it in the
wrong
place; the tent attracts every gust of wind and rivulet of water. The
fire
won't start or the stove fails just when it's needed. And the turns that
seem
clear on the map have now become utterly confusing.
%X "Such experiences, familiar in one form or another to all beginners,
are
truly unforgiving; and when they go wrong, they do so in cascading
fa****on.
Yet others camping nearby suffer no such miseries. Though their packs are
lighter, they have an endless supply of exactly the things that are
needed.
They tents go up quickly, they have solved the mystery of wet wood, and
they sit under a deceptively simple rain shelter, eating their dinner in
serene comfort. What is more is they are having a good time. The woods,
for the
beginner an endless succession of indistinguishable trees apparently
designed to bewilder the hapless walker, conceal a patch of berries,
or an edible mushroom. Nearby, but unseen, are a beautiful deer, or
overhead,
a soaring eagle.
%X "With time, patience, and effort one recognizes that these things are
available to everyone; it is possible to get in control of the experience,
to make it our own. The pack lightens as tricks are learned; how to
substitute
and how to improvise quickly, out of available materials, the things
previously
lugged. The more know, the less needed. Evereything put in the head
lessens what has to be carried on the shoulders. The sense of frustration
falls away and with it the fear that things will break down. One knows
how to
adapt. The pleasure of adaption is considerable in itself because it is
liberating.
%X "Nor is it merely a lifting of burdens. The backpacker, like the
fisherman,
discovers the positive quality of the voyage is directly related to his or
her knowledge or resources. There is often a dramatic relevation that
the woods are full of things to see -- for those who know how to see them.
%A David Ehrenfeld
%T The Arrogance of Humanism
%I Oxford U. Press
%C Oxford
%D 1978
%A Yvon Chouinard
%T let my people go surfing: the education of a reluctant businessman
%I Penguin Books
%C New York
%D 2005
%X A glossy table top book. Very good book.
%A Aldo Leopold
%T A Sand County Almanac
%A Curt Meine
%T Aldo Leopold
%K biography,
%X excellent. Leopold was chief forester in the Gila in his young days
Leopold, Aldo: _Round River_ .. includes long stretches from Leopold's
journals of wilderness canoe trips into the Quetico,
and
to the delta of the Colorado before the BLM destroyed
it
to make Lake Mead....
also the original volume containing Leopold's seminal
essays on the "land ethic";
%A James A. Livingston
%T Rogue Primate
%I Key****ter Books
%D 1994
%O ISBN 1-55013-508-2
%X develops this theme at length, and should be of
interest to those of us who think about man in nature.
The subtitle of the book is "An exploration of human domestication."
%A Laura Waterman
%A Guy Waterman
%T Forest And Crag
%I AMC Books
%C Boston, MA
%X Subtitle: A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the
Northeast Mountains
Scrupulously researched (100+ pages of references),
Fascinating and enormously entertaining
%A Laura Waterman
%A Guy Waterman
%T Wilderness Ethics
Any of John Muir's books
%A H. D. Thoreau
%T Walden
%X www.walden.org.
%A Lao Tsu
%T Tao Te Ching
%A Terry and Renny Russell
%T On the Loose
%I Sierra Club / Ballentine Books
%D 1965
%X May be out-of-print, check used bookstores
%X Excellent photos of pre-dam Glen Canyon, powerful prose and quotations
%A O. Russell
%T Journal of a Trapper
%X http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/html/russell.html
%A Chris Jones
%T Climbing in North America
%I Univ. of CA Press.
%C Berkeley, CA
%D 1976
%X A good history. Has taken some criticism, but many areas are minor.
%A Andy Selters
%T Ways to the Sky: A Historical Guide to North American Mountaineering
%I AAC Press
%C Golden, CO
%D 2004
%X Part of a series to include bouldering, ski mountaineering, rock
climbing,
ice climbing, & wall climbing, with an emphasis on peaks, free climbing,
and mountaineering.
%X A logical successor to Chris Jones' book combined with
Steck and Roper 50 Crowded climbs (avoiding overlap, having done climbs
from both).
Lacks reference to Ullman (maybe not a bad thing).
Contains numerous small errors. Worth owning but a little flawed to
be awarded the outdoor book award for '04.
Covers Mexico to the high Arctic.
%X Covers the reason why the PNW and the Mountaineers get made fun:
George Meany [really], the chair of the UW History dept. whose
military style is covered in a little detail (worth reading as it related
to the Mazamas).
%X Even cites John Ruskin. A good if flawed book.
%A Richard Mitchell
%Z OSU
%T The Mountain Experience:
Psychology and Sociology of Adventure
%I Univ. of Chicago Press
%C Chicago, IL
%D 1983
%A Kathleen Meyer
%T How to **** in the Woods
%I Ten Speed Press
%O ISBN:0-89815-319-0
%A Richard K. Frazine
%T The Barefoot Hiker
%I Ten-Speed Press
%D 1993
%O ISBN 0-898-155258. $7.95 US.
Conservationists Dave Foreman and Howie Wolke undertook a study
to inventory and describe the remaining big wilderness areas
in the United States (outside Alaska).
%T The Big Outside - A Descriptive Inventory of the Big Wilderness Areas
of
the United States
%X They included both "official" wilderness areas and
the unprotected roadless, wild lands that often surround them or in
some case, exist as discrete units. Their 1992 edition (ISBN
0-517-58737-8) lists these as the top 5 areas in the lower 48 states, by
size:
#1 - 3,253,000 acres - River of No Return Wilderness and adjoining
lands, central Idaho
#2 - 2,800,000 acres - High Sierra Nevada, California (including John
Muir, Ansel Adams, Dinkey Lakes, Golden Trout, Monarch, and Jennie
Lakes Wilderness Areas and parts of Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and
Sequoia National Parks)
#3 - 2,752,000 acres - Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and
adjoining lands, northern Minnesota
#4 - 2,700,000 acres - Grand Canyon, Arizona
#5 - 2,536,000 acres - Bob Marshall/Big Bear/Scapegoat Wilderness
complex, north central Montana.
The largest wild area in the East was the 1,658,000 acre Everglades
wild area in Florida (#8 nationwide). They did not find any really
large wild areas in the Adirondacks or Maine. Although there is
a lot of lightly inhabited country up there, it is broken up by
roads and industrial forest areas into smaller chunks of truly
wild land.
Caving:
Moved to rec.climbing.
%A Joe Back
%T Horses, Hitches & Rocky Trails
%A John McPhee
%T Coming to the Country
%X Alaska.
%T The Control of Nature
_The_Control_Of_Nature_ (superb!)
%T Basin and Range
%X Great Basin geologist
%T Encounters with the Archdruid
%X Dave Brower and opponents.
%T La place des Concorde Swisse
%T The Pine Barrens
%T Survival of Bark Canoe
%T Rising Up From the Plains
%X Wyoming geologist.
%X geology of Absarokas, Yellowstone NP
_In_Suspect_Terrain_ (oil geologist)
_Assembling_California_ (California tectonics)
David Brower: "For Earth's Sake; The Life and times of David Brower"
%A Apsley Cherry-Gerard
%T The Worst Journey in the World
%D 1922
%X They decided to travel on foot through the Antarctic winter to visit
an Emperor penguin colony.
%X Scott's last journey from the perspective of a survivor (did not go to
the Pole).
%X Other things being equal, the men with the greatest store of
nervous energy came best through this expedition.
Having more imagination, they had a worse time than
their more phlegmatic companions; but they got things done.
And when the worse came to the worst, their strength of mind
triumphed over their weakness of body.
If you want a good polar traveller, get a man without too much muscle,
with a good physical tone, and let his mind be on wires of steel.
And if you can't get both, sacrifice physique, and bank on will.
%X We cannot stop knowledge; we must use it well or perish. And we must
do
our tiny scrap to see that those who do use it are sound in mind and
body, especially in mind, of good education, with a background of
tradition, a knowledge of human nature and of history: with a certain
standard of decency which inspires trust: with disinterestedness and
self-control. Plato said the good ruler is a reluctant man. That
really wise man knows what an awful thing it is to govern, and keeps
away from it. Our problems are not new: they are as old as the men who
hunted the prehistoric hills. When *they* hit one another on the head
with stones the matter was confided to a few caves: now it shakes a word
more complicated than any watch. Human nature does not change: it
becomes more dangerous. Those who guide the world now may think they
are doing quite well; perhaps so did the dodo. --Apsley Cherry-Garrard,
1951
%X Looking back I realized two things...
Just enough to eat and keep us warm, no more -- no frills nor trillings:
this is many a worse and more elaborate life. The necessities of
civilization
were luxuries to us: ... the luxuries of civilization satisfy only those
wants
which they themselves create.
%X The highest object that human beings can set before themselves
is not the pursuit of any such chimera as the annihilization of the
unknown: it is simply the unwearied endeavour to remove its
boundaries a little further from our little sphere of action.
--Huxley
%X There are many reasons which send men to the Poles, and the
Intellectual Force uses them all. But the desire for knowledge for its
own sake is the one which really counts and there is no field for the
collection of knowledge which is at the present time can be compared to
the Antarctic.
%X Exploration is the physical expression of Intellectual Passion.
%X And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the
power to give it physical expression, go out and explore. If you are a
brave man, you will do nothing: if you are fearful you may do much, for
none but cowards have the need to prove their bravery. Some will tell
you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use?' For
we are a nation of shopkeepers, and no shopkeeper will look at research
which will not promise him a financial return within a year. And so you
will sledge nearly alone, but those with whom you sledge will not be
shopkeepers: that is worth a good deal. If you march your Winter
Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a
penguin's egg. -- Apsley Cherry-Garrard, 1922
%A Alfred Lansing
%T Endurance
%X Don't miss this one. An expedition under Shackleton attempted to
cross the Ice from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea via the South Pole.
Their ****p was caught in the ice and crushed, stranding them in the
Earth's most hostile environment, thousands of miles from any
possible help. There has probably never been a greater survival story.
%X Perhaps one of the greatest survival stories ever written. Just when
you
think things can't get worse, they do. More amazing is that no one died.
They all survived.
%X Most modern climbing tales are written by "Panty-waists" compared
to this tale. -- John Morton
%A Richard E. Byrd
%T Alone
%I Tarcher
%C Los Angeles
%D 1938
%X So I say in conclusion:
A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no
longer
indispensable.
%A Joe McGuiness
%T Going to Extremes
%X Two very different looks at modern Alaska by two very different
writers.
Each excellent in its' own way.
%X The best stories are toward the end of the book about Bethel and near
Homer. Note that McGuiness no longer lives there.
%A Adolph Murie
%T The Wolves of Mt. McKinley_
%X A deep look at the natural environment of the Great Land, and a
wonderful adventure story, disguised as a scientific re****t. Murie
also has a couple of other books worth reading, and his wife wrote
one called _Two in the Far North_ about raising a family in the
arctic wilderness.
%A Douglas Mawson
%T The Home of the Blizzard
%X The official account of the Mawson expedition. This was, I believe,
the first Australian Antarctic Expedition. At one point Mawson was
dog-sledding two hundred miles from base when a crevasse swallowed
the sled with all the food and one of his two companions. The
sequel was as dramatic as the Scott disaster, and should have been
as famous; but the two happened at the same time, so this one sort
of dropped out of history...
%A Lennard Bickel
%T Mawson's Will
%X A modern retelling of the Mawson story. Probably easier to find
than the former. Also draws on private diaries, etc., and is not
obligated to maintain a Victorian Stiff Upper Lip, so it is better
reading.
%A John Maxtone-Graham
%T Safe Return Doubtful
%X A history of Arctic/Antarctic exploration
(Title taken from supposed newspaper ad taken out in an English paper
by Shackleton recruiting for an Antarctic expedition.)
%X Tee-****rts featuring this ad are available from the IAC.
%A Roland Huntford
%T The Last Place on Earth
%X The bibliography is over 25 pages and lists hundreds of Norwegian texts
by
or about Amundsen and his co-explorers.
The English edition of Amundsen's SOUTH POLE was reprinted in 1976.
%A Francis Spufford
%T I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
%I Faber & Faber
%C London
%D 1996
%X is an excellent account of the cultural history and baggage that led up
to
Scott's expedition.
%A Pierre Berton
%T The Arctic Grail
%X A history of exploration of the Northwest Passage
%A Pierre Berton
%T The Klondike Fever
%X Story of the 1898 Alaskan/Yukon gold rush
Axcell, Claudia et al
_Simple_Foods_for_the_Pack_
(The Sierra Club Guide to Delicious Natural Foods for the Trail)
Sierra Club Books
ISBN 0-87156-757-1
%A Thomas D. Davies
%Z R. Adm. USN, (ret.)
%T New Evidence Places Peary at the Pole
%J National Geographic
%V 117
%N 1
%D January 1990
%P 44-61
%X Full re****t: $15 to Navigation Foundation, Box 1126, Rockville, MD
20850.
See also the page before the index of this issue entitled, "Sun angle
anyone?"
%A Peter Freuchen
%T My Life in Greenland
Mark Holbrook
%A Rachel Carson
%T Silent Spring
%D 1962?
%X THE great book.
%A Loren Eisley
%T The Unexpected Universe
%T The Immense Journey
%T The Invisible Pyramid
%X All have ****ning moments of insight and the writing is beautifully
lyrical.
%A ???
%T Words for the Wild
%I Sierra Club Books
Try other books, carriable on topics such as geology,
field biology, etc.
Geology books about the area you're in.
If you will be in the West, the Roadside Geology
books can be a good start.
%A Greenler
%T Rainbows Halos and Glories
%I Cambridge
%T The Aurora Handbook
%I University of Alaska
%D 1994
%A Jane Haigh
%A Kelley Hegarty Lammers
%A Patricia Walsh
%T Catch and Release: The Insiders' Guide to Alaska Men
%I Hillside Press
%C Fairbanks, AK
%D 1997
%K humor/travel, the odds are good, but the goods are odd,
%X Chapter 5: *** and the Alaska Man
four rules for making love in a tent
1. Make sure the mosquito netting is zipped up.
2. Zip-together sleeping bags are an absolute must.
3. Don't forget good sleeping pads. Foam inflatable are the best.
4. Make sure the tent is longer than your man.
William Livingston
David Lynch
Applied Optics
Feb. 1, 1979
triangular = f(breath/height)
%A Stephen Harris
%T Fire Mountains Of The West (older editions titled Fire and Ice)
%T Agents of Chaos
%X If you're near Yellowstone or the Cascades,
%A Steven K. Roberts
%Z wordy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computing Across America
%O nomadness-request@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Miles From Nowhere
%A Barbara Savage
%X A couple bicycle around the world.
This one is more highway adventuring rather than wilderness but I included
it
because it is one of the most gripping books I've read.
donna@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Donna McMaster)
%A Ned Gillette, and Dostal
%T Cross-Country Skiing
%T Mountain Skiing by Bein [Dated]
various books by Tejada-Flores
Prater's book Snowshoeing, 3rd ed.
%A William E Osgood
%A L Hurley
%T The Snowshoe Book
%I Stephen Greene Press
%A Henri Vaillancourt
%T Making the Attkamek Snowshoe
%I Trust for American Cultures and Crafts
%C Box 142, Greenville, NH 03048
%A Henri Vaillancourt
%J Fine Woodworking
%N 49
%D 1984
%P 77-80
Gil Gilpatrick, "Building Snowshoes"
Piragis Northwoods Company in Ely Minnesota
Camp and Trail Methods
by E. Kreps
Published by A. R. Harding
Collumbus Ohio
Copyright 1950
Fly Fi****ng:
%A Leo Wolfinger, III (Sheridan Anderson)
%T The Curtis Creek Manifesto
Tracking:
%A Olaus Murie
%T A Field Guide to Animal Tracks
%S Peterson Field Guide Series
%A James Halfpenny
%T A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North America
%A Paul Rezendes
%T Tracking and the Art of Seeing
%A Donald & Lillian Stokes
%T A Guide to Animal Tracking & Behavior
%A Gary Brown
%T Great Bear Almanac
%A Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
%T Why Is Animal Size so Im****tant
%X Very good reading for a technical book.
A good read on the physiology of size -
(respiration, circulation, metabolism, thermoregulation) but
a bit weak on the ecological implications. For that I'd recommend
Calder's "Size, function, and life history."
%A Robert Swift
%T Treking in Nepal
%I Sierra Club
%X health/welfare in Nepal
%A Stan Armington
%T Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya, 5th ed.
%I Lonely Planet
%C Berkeley
%D 1991
%A Jim DuFresne
%T Tramping in New Zealand
%I Lonely Planet
%C Berkeley
%A Robert Young Pelton
%A Coskun Aral
%A others
%T The World's Most Dangerous Places, 3rd ed. (now in 5th)
%I Fielding's Travel Guides
%C Redondo Beach, CA
%D 2003
%X www.comebackalive.com
%X In the Foreword, in the subsection "Who This Book is For" under
'Adventure Travellers' reads:
Most adventure travellers rely on politically correct but militarily
naive guidebooks like Lonely Planet, Moon and Rough Guides.
They provide minimal coverage of war zones and simply tell you
to stay away.
And "A Polite Discourse on Liability (ours) and Gullibility (yours):"
This book is more likely to kill you than save your life.
Good sections on Bribery, Terrorism, Land Mines, what to take,
Dangerous places, Dangerous Jobs, Dangerous diseases, and examples
of dangerous things. Includes the United States as a dangerous place
(NYC and LA). Quite nicely done. Not completely cynical.
Useful for journalists. This book properly notes the utility of a
Polaroid (tm) camera.
%X Now in the 5th edition. 2 co-editors have now died (Wink Dulles
(1956-2001)
and Gervaise Roderick (Roddy) Scott (1971-2002)).
%X
Foreword
LIST OF MAPS # Reasonable maps
What is Dangerous?
What Danger Awaits the Weary Traveler?
Minibuses, taxis, automobiles, boats, planes, trains
Making the Best of Nasty Situations: Dangerous Destinations
war zones, ugly Americans, revolutionary places, radical places,
nasty places, poor places, terrorist places, criminal places,
Business Travellers: Professional Victims
Dangerous places for business travel
Gangsters: the businessman's friend
Tourists: Fodder for Fiends
Dangerous Places
# the geographic meat of the book, like Cambodia which in turn sparked
them to response "A bit unfair" and "No comment."
Criminal Places
# a good calibration including Mexico and the USA: covers LA and NYC.
Good.
Forbidden Places
# e.g., Cuba, Iran, Iraq, N. Korea, Libya, etc. Very useful for
journalists.
Coming Attractions
# an interesting social studies lesson
Dangerous Things
Hey America, what time is it?
Every 2 seconds a criminal offense
every 12 sec. a burglary
every 17 seconds a violent crime
every 20 seconds vehicle is stolen
every 51 sec. a robbery
every 5 minutes a rape
every 23 minutes a murder <- you want this
ever 28 sec. agg. assault
Every 30 min. news, weather and s****ts
Pelton has a great sense of humor.
[This from the FBI.]
Bribes
Dangerous Jobs
Dangerous Diseases
Drugs
Getting Arrested
Guns [Boys and Their Toys]
Kidnapping
Land Mines # Janes' is the best thing, followed by military manuals
Military and Paramilitary Organizations
Terrorism
ADVENTURE GUIDE
Adventure Calls
Adventure Clubs
What to Pack # Good, special, better than average
Save Humanity
Save the Planet
Save Yourself
Visas and Entry Requirements
Tourist Offices
Intl. Long-Distance Access Codes
Index
%X
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1997/06/29/TRAVEL1856.dtl
%X Pelton's list of World's most boring places: 2nd ed.:
[clearly a generalization, you still die there]
Canada, the Caribbean, Costa Rica, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands,
The Vatican, Australia, Switzerland, Iceland, Antarctica.
Lastly:
"Real Programmers don't play tennis, or any s****t that requires you to
change clothes. Mountain climbing is OK, and real programmers always
wear their climbing boots to work in case a mountain should suddenly
spring up in the middle of a machine room."
from: "Real programmers don't write specs" in
%A George S. Almasi
%A Allan Gottlieb
%T Highly Parallel Computing
%I Benjamin/***mings division of Addison Wesley Inc.
%D 1989
%K ISBN # 0-8053-0177-1, book, text, Ultracomputer, grecommended,
%$ $36.95
%X This is a kinda neat book. There are special net
antecdotes which makes this interesting.
What does this have to do with parallel computing? Everything. Get the
book to find out why.
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Sources: [try local stores, else:]
Michael Chessler Books, Denver, CO
(800) 654-8502
The Mountaineers, Seattle, WA
(800) 553-4453
Sierra Club Books/Random House
(212) 872-8076
Adventurous Traveler Bookstore http://www.gorp.com/atbook.htm
TABLE OF CONTENTS of this chain:
28/ References (written) <* THIS PANEL *>
1/ DISCLAIMER
2/ Ethics
3/ Learning I
4/ learning II (lists, "Ten Essentials," Chouinard comments)
5/ Summary of past topics
6/ Non-wisdom: fire-arms topic circular discussion
7/ Phone / address lists
8/ Fletcher's Law of Inverse Appreciation / Rachel Carson / Foreman and
Hayduke
9/ Water Filter wisdom
10/ Volunteer Work
11/ S**** bite
12/ Netiquette
13/ Questions on conditions and travel
14/ Dedication to Aldo Leopold
15/ Leopold's lot.
16/ Morbid Backcountry
17/ Information about bears
18/ Poison ivy, frequently ask, under question
19/ Lyme disease, frequently ask, under question
20/ "Telling questions" backcountry Turing test (under construction)
21/ AMS
22/ Babies and Kids
23/ A bit of song (like camp songs)
24/ What is natural?
25/ A romantic notion of high-tech employment
26/ Other news groups of related interest, networking
27/ Films/cinema references
From: John McCollum <jmcc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Subject: backcountry reading
Eugene, after seeing the discussion on backcountry reading on
rec.backcountry, I decided to send you my list ac***ulated from
the newsgroup over the last few years. Thought you might be interested
for your FAQ panel 28. It is a little long so edit at will.
Rgds,
John McCollum
Texas Instruments Internet: jmcc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Box 655012 M/S 3635 TI MSG: JMCC
Dallas, TX 75265 Voice: (214) 917-2201
FAX: (214) 917-2939
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Bass, Rick "Days of Heaven"
("The Best American Short Stories 1992") This
story allegorically raises an essential dilemma of the
modern wilderness lover: How do I help protect a
wilderness
without simultaneously reducing my access to it?
dovey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Donald Dovey)
Berton, Pierre "The Artic Grail" (Northwest Passage exploration)
"The Klondike Fever" (1898 Alaskan/Yukon gold rush)
"The Whitewater Sourcebook" , Menasha River press
Brook, Paul "The House of LIfe" , life and writing of Rachel Carson
Brown, Tom "Field Guide to Wilderness Survival",
"Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking"
"Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants"
"The Tracker",
"The Search"
"The Vision"
"The Quest"
Brucker, Roger "Trapped" (caving,cave)
Caras, Roger "Monarch of Deadman Bay; the life and death of
a Kodiak bear "
The Custer wolf
Animals in their places: tales from the natural world
Creatures of the night
Dangerous to man: the definitive story of wildlife's
reputed danger
Last chance on earth; a requiem for wildlife
Mara Simba : the African lion
North American mammals; fur-bearing animals fo the
United States
Source of the thunder; the biography of a California
condor
The venomous animals
The Forest
(Read "The Monarch of Deadmans Cove" for an increadible account
of a ledgendary great Kodiak Bear who ranged in the Deadmans Cove
area for 16-18 years . You won't want to put it down.. )
Cole, David "Soft Paths" Pub; Stackpole Books
Dahl, Roald (sic) "The Best of Roald Dahl"
If you need some good campfire stories, I would warmly
recommend 'The best of Roald Dahl', a collection of his
best stories, all very suitable for a campfire.
From: wlieftin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Liefting Wouter)
%A Earl Denman
%T Alone to Everest
Frost, Robert; "The Gift Outright"
"Once by the Pacific"
Gatty, Harold "Nature is Your Guide"
(or How to Find Your Way on Land and Sea)
Gontran de Poncins "Kabloona" (life with the Inuit's in the 1930's)
Hemingway, Earnest "the Last Good Country"
"Big Two-Hearted River"
Hillerman, Tony "A Thief of Time"
"The Dark Wind"
Hutchinson, Derek "Sea Kayaking" pub. Globe Pequot Press, 1985
Kane, Joe "Running the Amazon"
Latimer, Carole "Wilderness Cuisine" food, cooking, menus, ..
Maclean, Norman "A River Runs Through It"
Manes, Christopher "Green Rage" (Earth First!, environmental civil
disobediance)
Mason, Bill movies now on video:
Song of the Paddle,
Path of the Paddle,
McHugh, Gretchen "The Hungry Hiker's Guide to Good Food (?)"
food,cooking, menus
Moore, J.R. "Nahani Trailhead"
....about a couple who built and lived in a cabin in
NWT (NorthWest Territory) very close to YT (Yukon
Terr).
****ter, Gene Stratton "The Girl of the Linberlost"
"The Harvester"
Randall, Glenn "Cold Comfort"
ron@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ron Miller) I re-read it every
Fall
in preparation for winter adventures.
Russel, Charlie cowboy stories, campfire reading
Scholly?, Dan "Guardians of Yellowstone" Morrow Publi****ng
Yellowstone Chief Ranger.
It deals largely with the fires that engulfed Yellowstone
over
the past few years, but he also tells stories about bear
attacks,
monkeywrenching, tourons (although he doesn't use the word),
and the backcountry rangers.
Service, Robert; "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
"The Shooting of Dan McGrew"
Sevareid, Eric "Canoeing With the Cree"
Simpson, Joe: "Touching the Void"
Stahlquist, Jim "Colorado Whitewater"
Steger, Will "North to the Pole"
"Crossing Antartica"
Sumner, Louise "Sew and Repair Your Outdoor Gear", The
Mountaineers,1988.
This 144 page softcover book is packed with information
specific to
designing, constructing, and maintaining hiking equipment and
clothing.
Gerry Cunningham and Margaret Hansson: LIGHT WEIGHT CAMPING EQUIPMENT
AND HOW TO MAKE IT, 4th ed. (Colorado Outdoor S****ts Corp, 1968)
%A Mark Twain
%T Roughing It
_The_Oregon_Trail_, Francis Parkman
Any of the David Rains Wallace natural history books;
I quite like _Klamath_Knot_ and _<something>_Ridge_
If you're taking kids,
the Laura Ingalls Wilder "Little House" books can't be beat.
_The_Listening_Point_, Sigurd Olson
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, Ranulph "Living Dangerously"
a British adventurer with the extraordinary name
An interesting book, including accounts of
parachuting onto a glacier, ascending the Nile by
hovercraft,
several polar expeditions, a N/S traverse of British
Columbia
by water, and the cir***navigation of the Earth, pole to
pole.
He seems to have managed to live in the 20th century the
kind
of life one might imagine for a European explorer of the
19th.
Unsworth, Walt; "Everest: A Mountain History"
%A Norman D. Vaughan
%T With Byrd at the Bottom of the World
Wheat, Doug "The Floaters guide to Colorado"
Wirth, Bob "Open Boat Canoeing"
Wise, Ken C. "Cruise of the Blue Flujin" Wilderness Adventure
Books,
1987
If you're traveling far by car,
_Blue_Highways_, William Least Heat Moon
_Cadillac_Desert_, Reisner
_Angle_of_Repose_, Wallace Stegner
_The_Machinery_Of_Nature_, Paul Ehrlich
Sailing_Alone_Around_The_World_, Joshua Slo***
Woods, Robert "Pleasure Backkpacking"
..equipment review;
From: cheu@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Kelvin Cheu)
??? "Simple Foods for the Pack"
%A George R. Stewart
%T Ordeal by Hunger
%X history of Donner Pass expedition
?? "Men against the Mountains" history of Jed Smith's
expeditions
?? "The Complete Wilderness Paddler"
Books on K2 that are reasonable entertainment:
K2 - The Savage Mtn, Houston, 53 American Expedition.
The Throne Room of the Gods, Galen Rowell - American 75 Expedition.
K2 - The Last Step, Rick Ridgeway, John Roskelly - American 78 Expedition.
K2, Reinhold Messner - 79 Expedition.
K2, Shapiro Climbing Club - Japanesse 84 North Ridge Expedition.
K2 - Triumph and Tragedy, Jim Curran - Chronicle of 1986, wherein
27 climbers made the summit, and 13 climbers died. A
first-hand account of a climbing season on K2 I'm sure no
one would like to see repeated.
Not to be too pessimistic, the current issue of the "new" Summit has
reprinted
Giono's inspiring story "The Man Who Planted Trees". I had always
thought
this was a true story, but the introduction refers to it as a "short
story"
and the author as a novelist, so I wonder. Anybody know if Eleazar
Bouffier
was real? His business plan was funded by God, not by venture
capitalists,
or multinational wood/pulp companies.
I recommend reading "The Milagro Beanfield War". Besides being an
excellent book it provides a different perspective on the grazing
rights issue. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It
will make you wonder what hell right the US government had in
appropriating
the land in the first place. :-)
Surprising good movie, IMHO, directed by Robert Redford. Says Maltin
(Movie and Video Guide, 1992):
Spirited, fanciful tale of a rugged individualist (dirt-poor,
hard luck ...) who decides to stand up to the big, brash
developers who plan to milk his (and his neighbors') New Mexico
land for all it's worth. Distilled from John Nichols'
sprawling novel by Nichols and David Ward, this film takes a
whimsical tone that's positively infectious...aided by a
top ensemble cast, beautiful scenery, and Dave Grusin's
lyrical, Oscar-winning score.
COLORADO RIVER / LAKE POWELL TIDBITS
* From: "The Colorado River Through Grand Canyon: Natural
History and Human Change", Steven Carothers and Bryan Brown,
University of Arizona Press, 1991, QH105.A65C38, ISBN
0-8165-1232-9; and other sources.
>A few years back I read a really tasty book, called
>"Beyond Space****p Earth" (edited by Hargrove, 1988?, Sirra Club Books).
>It's a collection of papers concerning man's future envolvement
>with space. All sort of nifty ethical questions.
>Some "down to earth", progressing to the far out.
>Like control of space junk. Nucks in space.
>Control of artificial satalites.
===================================================
John McCollum
Texas Instruments Internet: jmcc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Box 655012 M/S 3635 TI MSG: JMCC
Dallas, TX 75265 Voice: (214) 917-2201
FAX: (214) 917-2939
%A Norbert Casteret
_The Years Under the Earth_, _The Darkness Under the Earth_, others.
%X Classic accounts of early French caving.
Planning Guide (Thru-hike/General)--
The Appalachian Trail (1st Edition)
Subtitled: How to Prepare for & Hike It
Author: Jan D. Curran
Published by: Rainbow Books, Inc. P.O.Box 430, Highland City FL
33846-0430
(941-648-4420)
1995,192 pp., ISBN 1568250509 (hard cover); ISBN 1568250517 (paperback)
Cover price: $6.00
The URL for the Trailplace AT Bibliography is
http://trailplace.com/cgi-bin/htmlscript?category_bibliography.hts
%A Robert Proudman
%T Trail Design, Construction, and Maintenance
%I Appalachian Trail Conference
%C Harpers Ferry, VA
%D 1996
%O paperback, $8.95
%X Superscedes earlier editions from 1989 and 1981.
%A Carl Demrow
%A David Salisbury
%T The Complete Guide to Trail Building and Maintenance
%I Appalachian Mountain Club
%D
%X www.outdoors.org
%A william birchard
%T appalachian trail fieldbook:a self-help guide for trail maintainers
%S the appalachian trail steward****p series
%D 1982
%X evaluation form inside back pocket.
%A cliff jacobson
%T the basic essentials of trail side shelters and emergency shelters
%D 1992
%O ISBN 0934802890
%A arnold p. snyder
%T trail maintenance & restoration, high sierra district, 1959
%I forest service
%D 1960
Harmon, Will. THE HIKERS GUIDE TO ALBERTA. Calgary: Rocky Mountain
Books. 1992.
Kane, Alan. SCRAMBLES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES. Calgary: Rocky
Mountain Books, 1992.
Kariel, Patricia. HIKING ALBERTA'S DAVID THOMPSON COUNTRY.
Edmonton: Lone Pine Publi****ng, 1987.
McHugh, Gretchen. THE HUNGRY HIKERS BOOK OF GOOD COOKING. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
Morton, Keith. "Lightweight Equipment Buyer's Guide". EXPLORE,
Annual Review.
Paton, Brian & Bart Robinson, THE CANADIAN ROCKIES TRAIL GUIDE.
Banff: Summerthought Ltd.,1986.
Spring, Vicky and Gordon King. 95 HIKES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES:
BANFF, KOOTENAY, AND ASSINABOINE PARKS. Vancouver: Douglas and
McIntyre, 1982.
Sutter, Archie and Eddie Bauer, THE EDDIE BAUER GUIDE TO BACKPACK-
ING. Reading: Addison - Wesley Publi****ng Co., 1984.
Townsend, Chris. THE BACKPACKERS HANDBOOK. Camden: Ragged Mountain
Press, 1991.
Urbrick, Dee and Vickey Spring. 94 HIKES IN THE NORTHERN CANADIAN
ROCKIES: YOHO, JASPER, MT. ROBSON AND WILLMORE WILDERNESS PARKS.
Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1983.
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 17:13:52 MST
From: dolson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(David W. Olson)
Subject: Re: [l/m 9/28/93] References Distilled Wisdom (28/28) XYZ
More books, if you can stand it:
Shackleton's Book Journey, by Frank A Worsley, Capt. of the Endurance.
He has a semi-religious take on the experience. This appears to be an
abrigdement of a longer account.
Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic, by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Norse Greenland, John Franklin, George Simpson, Salomon Andree, Soviet
polar
overflight. Very interesting.
The Vinland Sagas: Graenlendinga Saga & Eirik's Saga. The Norse discover
America. Short and easy (for an Icelandic saga) to read.
An Antarctic Mystery, by Jules Verne. Sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.
Poe stories such as "Descent into the Maelstrom" and "MS found in a
Bottle".
David W Olson
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 16:35:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tracy Berry <tbe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Subject: Tree book...
I sent you a fan note sometime last year to tell you how much I
appreciate your regular faq's in the "rec.backcountry" newsgroup.
Again this season, thanks for keeping the files up-to-date and editing
with a sense of humour.
Wanted to let you know about a new book from the Oregon State University
Extension Service. It's actually an updated edition of their most popular
publication, "Trees to Know in Oregon." It's a handy guide to native and
urban trees and shrubs. And the extension and forestry folks have done a
nice update, while retaining some of the cartoons and drawings that made
the 1950's and later versions cult classics.
I keep one copy in my car, another at my desk. I actually use it more
in-town when I'm trying to identify street trees, but it's a good
refresher on the ones I see regularly on outdoor trips.
Admittedly, the focus is on Oregon trees, but there's enough in common
with Northern California to provide a handy reference work.
It's $3.00 per copy.
The source is:
Publications Orders
Agricultural Communications
Oregon State University
Administrative Services A422
Corvallis, Oregon. 97331-2119.
(503) 737-2513.
FAX: (503)737-0817.
Enjoy the rest of your summer...
Tracy Berry
tbe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(503)485-5778.
FAX: (503)343-9664.
"Theatre is life.
Film is art.
Television is furniture."
Thanks for the "Distilled Wisdom" posts. I've enjoyed reading them.
For the "reference" list I would like to suggest
Gruchow, Paul: The Necessity of Empty Places
Among other things in the collection of connected essays, Gruchow gets
lost
in the mountains, encounters a feeding moose, and imagines that a trout
in a stream sees him as a bear. Excellent reading.
Article 24104 of rec.climbing:
From: opland@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Greg Opland)
(Chronological/ historic, for completeness sake)
The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley): A Narrative of the
First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America, by Hudson
Stuck, published in 1914
o Climber's Guide to McKinley
Used to be by Glenn Randall, I think it's a group effort now. A guide
to beginner's
getting ready to climb the mountain.
o High Alaska by Jon Waterman
Kind of the guidebook to Denali, Foraker, and Hunter. Has detailed
route information,
including Bradford Washburn pictures.
o Surviving Denali by Jon Waterman
Detailed account of all the mistakes that came before yours - kind of
an ANAM
book for Denali. My favorite was the one lady that went psycotic on
Michael
Covington and kept trying to jump off of Windy Corner (?). If you
check for
information from Fantasy Ridge, they send you a sheet with full
disclosure...
it's pretty good when you get to the reference to them having "one
psycotic
incident." "-)
%A Art Davidson
%T Minus 148F
%D 1968
%X Story of the first winter ascent - scary.
o On Top of Denali - the author's name eludes me, might be Waterman as
well,
but this was a good history of climbing on McKinley.
o Fred Beckey just put out a new book on Denali....can't think of the name
for
sure, but it's basically a history of climbing on McKinley.
Dear Mr. Wilcox:
We have received your extraordinary letter regarding the plans
for your record-breaking efforts this year [1967] on Mt. McKinley.
I have answered hundreds of queries over a long period of time,
but have never before answered one quite like this. In fact, I am
amazed that the National Park Service would grant a permit for
such a weird undertaking.
...[Significant history removed]
-- not just sleeping their way into headlines!
For your information, according to our records, McKinley
has not yet been climbed blindfolded or backwards, nor has the
same party of nine yet fallen simultaneously into the same
crevasse. We hope that you may wish to rise to one of these
compelling challenges.
Very truly yours,
Bradford Washburn, Director
Museum of Science and Hayden Planetarium
%A Don Holmes
%T Highpoints of the United States: A Guide to the Fifty State Summits
%C P.O. Box 10, Monument, CO 80132
%O $14.50
%A Paul L. Zumwalt
%Z 2305 N. Elmwood Avenue Peoria IL 61604 phone 309-682-1268
%T Fifty State Summits
%I Jack Grauer -- Publisher
%C 2005 SE 58th Ave., ****tland, Oregon 97215 phone 503-232-5596
%O $13.00 postpaid.
References on climbing/backpacking for the disabled:
A Book:
S****ts and Recreation for the Disabled: A R
by Michael J. Paciorek
Benchmark Press, 1989
Article:
The One-Armed Climber
Climbing Magazine Oct/Nov:136
by Dick Dorworth, 1989
Article 35337 of rec.climbing:
From: jrbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Jim Davies)
Newsgroups: rec.climbing
Subject: Re: Everest First Ascent
Since email bounced, I'm posting this. Here's a couple of books to look
up.
The first one in particular is all about the controversy, such as it is.
The second is just a good book on the history of Everest climbing. Great
pictures, too.
AUTHOR(s): Holzel, Tom.
TITLE(s): Mystery of Mallory and Irvine
First on Everest : the mystery of Mallory and Irvine /
Tom Holzel and Audrey Salkeld.
1st American ed.
New York : H. Holt, c1986.
x, 322 p., [18] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Previously published as: The mystery of Mallory and
Irvine.
1986.
-----------------------------
TITLE(s): Everest : the best writing and pictures from seventy
years
of human endeavour / edited by Peter Gillman ;
foreword by
Edmund Hillary ; picture research by Audrey Salkeld.
Boston : Little, Brown, c1993.
9311
208 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 32 cm.
Article 69187 of rec.backcountry:
From: emuzik@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Edward J Muzik Jr)
Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
Subject: Re: Canadian wilderness: was : snow camping
Dubasak, Marilyn. Wilderness Preservation: A cross-cultural comparison
of Canada and the United States. New York: Garland, 1990
Harkin, James Bernard. The History and Meaning of the National Parks of
Canada; extracts from the papers of the late J. B. Harkin first
commissioner of the national parks of Canada. Saskatoon: H. R. Larson
Pub. Co., 1958 (Harkin was an admirer of John Muir, but had to
balance a lot of conflicting demands on the parks.)
Bella, Leslie. Parks for Profit. Montreal: Harvest House, 1987.
Article 69506 of rec.backcountry:
From: nsroberts@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Nsroberts)
Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
Subject: Re: wilderness management info
1) "The Backcountry Classroom" by Jack Drury and Bruce Bonney
[published by Wilderness Education Association(WEA), 20 Winona Ave., Bx 89
(518) 891-2915
2) "Wildland Recreation: Ecology and Management" by William Hammitt and
David Cole [published by John Wiley & Sons]
3) "Outdoor Recreation Management: Theory and Application" by Alan
Jubenville
Ben Twight, and Robert Becker [published by Venture Publi****ng...they're
in
Pennsylvania somewhere]
Assoc. for Experiential Education (an International Association): 2885
Aurora
Ave., #28
Boulder, CO 80303-2252. 303-440-8844 or aeemikal@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- if you
contact them, tell 'em Nina sent ya. Good luck!
Article 71927 of rec.backcountry:
From: jlance@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Lance Jablonski)
Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
Subject: Re: GREAT BOOK: THE COURSE OF EMPIRE
>|> I've been reading Bernard DeVoto's *Course of Empire*.
>|> What a fantastic book. DeVoto was Wallace Stegner's mentor.
>|> *Course of Empire* traces European exploration and battles as
>|> U.S. moved across the continent. A real eye-opener, life-changer.
>I agree. I also recommend "Across the Wide Missouri," about the mountain
men,
>and "1846: Year of Decision."
I would be remiss not to throw in Stegner's "Beyond the 100th Meridian."
In this book Stegner explains half of the problems being experienced
in the West today, even though the book was written back in the fifties
(I think).
%A W.S.B. Peterson
%T The Physics of Glaciers, 3rd ed.
%I
%C
%D 1994
"Skiing Mechanics" by John Howe,
Published in 1983 by Poudre (La****te, Colorado),
ISBN:0-935240-02-0
H. Schultes, Principles of Modern Alpine Ski Design. Olin Ski Company,
Middletown CT.
"Skiing Trauma and Safety: Fifth International Symposium", ASTM 860
(1985)
"Skiing Trauma and Safety: Sixth International Symposium", ASTM 930
(1987)
%A David Lind (Univ. Colorado)
%A Scott Sanders (Univ. New Mexico)
%T The physics of Skiing
%I AIP Press
%D 1996
%X order (800) 809-2247 $24.95
K. Kinosita (ed.) Scientific Study of Skiing in Japan (in Japanese),
Hitachi, Tokyo (1971)
K. Kinosita, Science of Skiing (in Japanese), Chuoukoron, Tokyo (1973).
Mechanics of a Turning Snow Ski
Y. Hirano and N. Tada
Int J. Mech Sci, Vol. 36, No. 5. pp.421-429, 1994
Experimental Study of the Mechanism of Skiing Turns
I. An Uphill Turn from Straight Running Downhill
To****o Saha**** and Shoji Ichino
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
Vol. 26, No. 7 , July 1987, pp. 1185-1189
Experimental Study of the Mechanism of Skiing Turns
II. Measurement of Edging Angles
To****o Saha**** and Shoji Ichino
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
Vol. 29, No. 6 , June 1990, pp. 11203-1208
Method for Drawing Locus of a Sliding Ski as Observed from Direction
Perpendicular to Snow Surface
To****o Saha**** and Shoji Ichino
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
Vol. 34 (1995), pt 1, No. 2A, pp. 674-679
A Model for the Turning Snow Ski
Anthony A. Renshaw and C. D. Mote Jr.
Int. J. Mech Sci., Vol. 31, No. 10, pp. 721-736, 1989
Harrington, F.H. and A.M. Veitch. 1991. Short-term
impacts of low-level jet fighter training on caribou in Labrador.
Arctic. 44(4):318-327
Harrington, F.H. and A.M. Veitch. 1992. Calving
success of woodland caribou exposed to low-level jet fighter
overflights. Arctic. 45(3):213-218
Title: WILD GREEN VEGETABLES OF CANADA: Edible Wild Plants of Canada.
No.4
Autors: Adam F. Szczawinski & Nancy J. Turner
Publishers: National Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums of
Canada
Copyright 1980
%A Oliver Perry Medsger
%T Edible Wild Plants
%I Collier Books
%D 1939, 1966
%X The complete, authoritative guide to identification and preparation
of North American edible wild plants"
Edible garden weeds of Canada / Adam F. Szczawinski, Nancy J. Turner,
1988. Canada's edible wild plants series ; v.1. ISBN: 0889027528.
The edible wild : a complete cookbook and guide to edible wild plants
in Canada and North America / by Berndt Berglund and Clare E. Bolsby ;
illustrated by E.B. Sanders, 1980. ISBN: 091936439X.
Edible wild fruits and nuts of Canada / Nancy J. Turner, Adam F.
Szczawinski, 1988. Canada's edible wild plants series ; v.3.
ISBN: 088902751X.
Edible wild plants: a North American field guide / Thomas S. Elias &
Peter A. Dykeman, 1990. ISBN: 0806974885.
Edible wild plants of eastern United States and Canada / by John
Tomikel, 1976. ISBN: 0910042217.
A field guide to edible wild plants of eastern and central North
America / by Lee Peterson ; line drawings by Lee Peterson and Roger
Tory Peterson ; photos by Lee Peterson, 1978. The Peterson field guide
series ; no.23. ISBN: 039531870X (pbk.)
Stalking the healthful herbs / Euell Gibbons ; with drawings of plants
by Raymond W. Rose, 1989. ISBN: 0911469060.
Wild coffee and tea substitutes of Canada / Nancy J. Turner, Adam F.
Szczawinski, 1978. Edible wild plants of Canada ; no.2. ISBN:
0660000903.
Wild green vegetables of Canada / Adam F. Szczawinski, Nancy J. Turner,
1980. Edible wild plants of Canada ; no.4. ISBN: 0660103427.
Wild plants of central North America for food and medicine / written
and illustrated by Stephen Jackson and Linda Prine, 1978. ISBN:
0919566642.
Wilderness harvest : a guide to edible wild plants in North America /
Alyson Hart Knap, 1979. A Christopher Ondaatje publication. ISBN:
0889321035.
Your own food : a forager's guide / Dan Jason ; illustrated by Moira
Weinreich, 1979. ISBN: 0889560811.
Scherl, L.M. Self in wilderness: Understanding the psychological benefits
of the individual-wilderness interaction through self control. Leisure
Sciences, vol 11, pages 123-135, 1989
Robinson, D.W. A descriptive model of enduring risk recreation
involvement.
Journal of Leisure Studies, 24, 52-63, 1992.
_The Indian Tipi: its history, construction, and use_
Reginald and Gladys Laubin
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma
ISBN 0-8061-2236-6
%T Tough Trip Through Paradise 1878-1879 By Andrew Garcia
Edited by Bennet Stein
%X Its the TRUE narrative of Garcia's experiences in montana
Territory. Fascinating read. He encounters Nez Perce,
Blackfoot and Pend Oreille Indians.
%A Gary H. Schwartzq
%T Skiing Literature
%I Wood River Publi****ng
%C 591 Redwoood Highway, Mill Valley, CA 94941
%X (415) 388-6500
%O ISBN 0-9623000-5-5
%X Optional: CD-ROM.
%A David P. Baras
%T Marmots - Social Behavior and Ecology
- "Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons", John Wesley Powell.
- "A Canyon Voyage, Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition", Frederick
S.
Dellenbaugh.
- "Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico", Ellsworth Kolb.
- "Broken Waters Sing", Gaylord Staveley, retraces Major Powell's trip
down
the Green and Colorado in the 1960s. Still challenging, though not as
life-
threatening as the Major's voyage. The sad part of all of these accounts,
of
course, is knowing that Glen Canyon Dam prevents any of us from repeating
this
grand journey.
"Impact of wet underwear on thermoregulatory responses and thermal
comfort in the cold", M. K. Bakkevig and R. Nielsen, Ergonomics 37, 1375
(1994).
"Backpacking: A Pilot Study of Hikers"
Vincent Bolduc
Dept. of Rural Sociology
Published by:
Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station
College of Ag and Natural Resources
The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06268
1973
Funding for the research was under Regional Project NEM-35, "Consumer
Analysis for Specific Forest-Oriented Recreational Activities in the
Northeast"
Wilson, John P. and Joseph P. Seney, "Erosional Impact of Hikers,
Horses, Motorcycles, and off-Road bicycles on Mountain Trails in
Montana." Mountain_Research_and_Development, vol. 14, no. 1 (1994)
pp.77-88.
ABSTRACT: This study examined the relative impact of hikers, horses,
motorcycles, and off- road bicycles in terms of water runoff and
sediment yield from 108 sample plots on existing trails in or near
Gallatin National Forest, Montana. A modified Meeuwig drip-type
rainfall simulator was used to reproduce natural rainstorm events.
Treatments of 100 p***** were applied to each plot. The results
confirmed the complex interactions that occur between topographic, soil,
and geomorphic variables noted by others, and the difficulty of
interpreting their impact on existing trails. None of the hypothesized
relation****ps between water runoff and slope, soil texture, antecedent
soil moisture, trail roughness, and soil resistance was statistically
significant. Five independent variables or cross-products explained 42%
of the variability in sediment yield when soil texture was added as a
series of indicator variables. Ten variables combined to explain 70% of
the variability in sediment yield when trail user was added as a second
series of indicator variables. Terms incor****ating soil texture (37%),
slope (35%), and user treatment (35%) accounted for the largest
contributions. Multiple comparisons test results showed that horses and
hikers (hooves and feet) made more sediment available than wheels
(motorcycles and off-road bicycles) and that this effect was most
pronounced on prewetted trails.
CONCLUSIONS: Trail use in the last ten years has seen a dramatic
increase in off-road bicycles. In many cases off-road bicyclists use
the same trails as hikers, horseback riders,and motorcyclists, so that
this additional use compounds erosional concerns. The results of this
study provide land managers with some new data summarizing the relative
impacts of four different users on two existing trails in southwest
Montana. In particular, the results indicate that: (1) the natural
processes occurring on thetwo trails used for this study are complicated
and difficult to decipher; (2) sediment yield is detachment-limited
rather than trans****t-limited (at least for low- intensity storms in the
types of environments examined in this study); (3) horses produced
significantly larger quantities of sediment compared to hikers, off-road
bicycles, and motorcycles; and (4) the greatest sediment yields occurred
on wet trails.
The results also indicate why future research may need to examine higher
intensitiesof use (500- 1000 p*****), increased rainfall intensities,
wet soil conditions (longer or heavier rainstorms), and mechanical as
well as water-driven erosion processes. Higher levels of use and
rainfall would increase the likelihood of exceeding the thresholds at
which change is initiated. Site specific studies are required to show
when different users exceed these erosion thresholds on new and existing
trails. Although the results from these studies would help land
managers in *****sing the carrying capacities of their trail systems,
there remains the challenge of extrapolating the results from small
sample plots like those used in this study to other locations and larger
areas. The discovery in this study that wet sites are more susceptible
than dry sites to erosion damage may help if future studies can
demonstrate a link between trail segments that have experienced
substantial trail erosion and landscape positions with consistently high
soil- water contents. (46 references)
[Mountain_Research_and_Development is published by University of
California Press, Journals Division, 2120 Berkeley Way, No. 5812,
Berkeley CA 94720-7154]
POLEMIC:
INDUSTRIAL TOURISM
AND THE NATIONAL PARKS
I LIKE my job. The pay is generous; I might even say
munificent: $1.95 per hour, earned or not, backed solidly
by the world's most powerful Air Force, biggest national
debt and grossest national product. The fringe benefits
are priceless: clean air to breathe (after the spring sandstorms);
stillness, solitude and space; an unobstructed
view every day and every night of sun, sky, stars, clouds,
mountains, moon, cliffrock and canyons; a sense of time
enough to let thought and feeling range from here to the
end of the world and back; the discovery of something
intimate-though impossible to name in the remote.
The work is simple and requires almost no mental effort
is a good thing in more ways than one. What little
....
Industrial Tourism and The National Parks
directed not only to administer the parks but also to
"provide for the enjoyment of same in such manner and by
such means as will leave them unimpaired for
the enjoyment of future generations."
This appropriately ambiguous language,
employed long before the onslaught of the automobile,
has been understood in various and often opposing ways ever since.
The Park Service, like any other
big organization, includes factions and factions. The
Developers, the dominant faction, place their emphasis on
the words "provide for the enjoyment." The Preservers,
a minority but also strong, emphasize the words "leave
them unimpaired." It is apparent, then, that we cannot
decide the question of development versus preservation
by a simple referral to holy writ or an attempt to guess
intention of the founding fathers; we must make up
our own minds and decide for ourselves what the national parks
should be and what purpose they should serve.
The first issue that appears when we get into this matter,
the most im****tant issue and perhaps the only issue,
the one called accessibility. The Developers insist that
the parks must be made fully accessible not only to people
but also to their machines, that is, to automobiles,
motorboats, etc. The Preservers argue, in principle at
least, that wilderness and motors are incompatible and
that the former can best be experienced, understood, and
enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they
belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on
reservoirs and in the marinas.
What does accessibility mean? Is there any spot on
Earth that men have not proved accessible by the simplest
meansÑfeet and legs and heart? Even Mt. McKinley, even
Everest, have been surmounted by men on foot. Some of
them, incidentally, rank amateurs, to the horror and
indignation of the professional mountaineers.) The interior
of the Grand Canyon, a fiercely hot and hostile abyss,
is visited each summer by thousands and thousands of tourists of
the most banal and unadventurous type, many
of them on footÑself-propelled, so to speakÑand the
(1) No more cars in National Parks.
Let people walk.
Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs--anything--but keep the
automobiles ... out.
We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert
halls,
art museums, legislative assemblies,
Industrial Tourism and The National Parks
of their choice in the Valley, by the Park Service. (Why
not? The roads will still be there.) Once in the Valley
they will find the concessioners waiting, ready to supply
whatever needs might have been overlooked, or to furnish
rooms and meals for those who don't want to camp out.
The same thing could be done at Grand Canyon or at
Yellowstone or at any of our other shrines to the out-of-doors.
There is no compelling reason, for example, why
tourists need to drive their automobiles to the very brink
of the Grand Canyon's south rim. They could walk that
first mile. Better yet, the Park Service should build an
enormous parking lot about ten miles south of Grand Canyon
Village and another east of Desert View. At those
points, as at Yosemite, our people could emerge from
their steaming shells of steel and glass and climb upon
horses or bicycles for the final leg of the joumey. On the
rim, as at present, the hotels and restaurants will remain
to serve the physical needs of the park visitors. Trips along
the rim would also be made on foot, on horseback, orÑ-
utilizing the paved road which already existsÑ-on bicycles.
For those willing to go all the way from one parking lot
to the other, a distance of some sixty or seventy miles,
we might provide bus service back to their cars, a service
which would at the same time effect a convenient exchange
of bicycles and/or horses between the two terminals.
What about children? What about the aged and infirm?
Frankly, we need waste little sympathy on these two pressure groups.
Children too small to ride bicycles and
heavy to be borne on their parents' backs need only
wait a few yearsÑif they are not run over by automobiles
they will grow into a lifetime of joyous adventure, if we
save the parks and leave them unimpaired for the
enjoyment of future generations. The aged merit even less
sympathy: after all they had the op****tunity to see the
country when it was still relatively unspoiled. However,
we'lI stretch a point for those too old or too sickly to
mount a bicycle and let them ride the shuttle buses.
I can foresee complaints. The motorized tourists,
reluctant to give up the old ways, will complain that they
can't see enough without their automobiles to bear them
swiftly (traffic permitting) through the parks. But this is
nonsense. A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle
will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the
motorized tourists can in a hundred miles. Better to
idle through one park in two weeks than try to race
through a dozen in the same amount of time. Those who
are familiar with both modes of travel know from
experience that this is true; the rest have only to make the
experiment to discover the same truth for themselves.
They will complain of physical hard****p, these sons
of the pioneers. Not for long; once they rediscover the pleasures
of actually operating their own limbs and senses in
a varied, spontaneous, voluntary style, they will complain
instead of crawling back into a car; they may even object
to returning to desk and office and that dry-wall box
on Mossy Brook Circle. The fires of revolt may be kindled
--which means hope for us all.
(2) No more new roads in national parks.
(3) Put the Park rangers to work.
Chwirka, J. D. Removing Arsenic from groundwater
Journal of the American Water Works Association
v92, no3, pp. 79-88
Focazio M. J. A retrospective analysis of the occurrence of arsenic in
ground water resources. USGS Water resources investigation re****t 99-4279.
%A Daniel Defoe
%T Robinson Crusoe
%K Friday,
%X A modification of the experience of Alexander Selkirk.
Inspired many romaniticised follow-ons about marooned on a remote
island including a 1960s film Robinson Crusoe on Mars.
Also in the vein of Swiss Family Robinson and Swept Away.
Being removed:
%A Peter Freuchen
%T The Book of the Eskimo
%X Freuchen was a trading post factor in the Hudsons Bay area around
the turn of the century. He 'went native', marrying an Inuit, and
describes their culture intimately. The account is by turns delightful
and horrifying. You don't want to be an Eskimo.
%X Yes, I do.
%X Freuchen first went to Greenland in 1906 (in his early 20's),
and last visited there in 1933. "The Book of the Eskimo" was
written in the mid 1950's just prior to his death in 1957. It
was edited and published after his death.
%X It is a novel, written to be entertaining; however, it contains
a number of stereotypical statements about Eskimo culture which
are not only absolutely wrong, but were and are meant to be
degrading to them and their culture. It may indeed be an
enjoyable read, and given Freuchen's very active life it
certainly does contain useful information. But it is often
described as a reference work on Eskimo culture, and it fails
miserably in that roll.
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[Man vs. nature is at its most riveting in these first-person accounts,
says author James M. Tabor http://jamesmtabor.com/
]
1. In the Amazon Jungle http://snipurl.com/1ik4w
By Algot Lange
Putnam, 1912
In 1910, Algot Lange, an opera singer's son thirsting for adventure,
plunged into unexplored upper Amazonia between Brazil and Peru. As he
recounted in "In the Amazon Jungle," his extraordinary chronicle of the
expedition, for weeks he survived alligators, boa constrictors,
poisonous ants, tarantulas, venomous s****s, black panthers -- and then
the real adventure began. Fever and s****bite killed four Indian
companions. Alone, burning with fever, lost and starving, injecting
himself with huge precautionary doses of quinine and arsenic, Lange
finally collapsed to die. He awoke, but he was surrounded by Mangeroma
cannibals, who gleefully fried and ate other captives while nursing
Lange back to health -- for the pot, he feared. But Mangeromas in those
halcyon days ate only their enemies, and white meat was not yet on
their menu. Lange eventually returned to civilization, "an emaciated
fever-wreck, placing one foot before the other only with much
exertion." Even more surprising than Lange's survival: his return for
another Amazonian sojourn.
2. Shackleton's Boat Journey http://snipurl.com/Shackleton
By F.A. Worsley
1933
Sir Ernest Shackleton's harrowing 1914-17 South Pole expedition aboard
the Endurance http://snipurl.com/1ik5h
has prompted many books on the
subject, but my favorite remains "Shackleton's Boat Journey," by Frank
Worsley, the ****p's captain (first published in the U.S. by Norton in
1977). Worsley was a fine writer and even better sailor. Shackleton had
intended to lead the first sea-to-sea crossing of the Antarctic, but
polar ice crushed the Endurance in November 1915, and the goal quickly
became simple survival. Worsley saved Shackleton's expedition, his life
and his reputation by navigating a glorified rowboat, the 22-foot James
Caird, through 800 miles of the notorious Southern Ocean storms that
routinely sank large ****ps. It was an astoni****ng sailing feat and made
the bulwark of Shackleton's legend. Sir Ernest, in truth, was but a
passenger, who early on confessed: "Do you know that I know nothing
about boat sailing?" Worsley just chuckled: "Don't worry, Boss. I do."
Shackleton really was a great explorer and wrote his own fine story of
the Endurance; try to read him. But do also read Worsley's graceful and
self-effacing account.
3. The Worst Journey in the World http://snipurl.com/worst_journey
By Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Doran, 1922
English aristocrat Apsley Cherry-Garrard spent 1910-13 with Robert
Falcon Scott's ill-fated South Pole expedition. In "The Worst Journey
in the World," Cherry's writing is elegant and laced with wry English
humor but also with the grim epiphanies that come only from agony. His
lasted three long years; its terrible climax was the Winter Journey of
July-August 1911, when Scott sent Cherry and two others into the black
heart of Antarctic winter. They hauled a 757-pound sledge for five
weeks through 24-hour darkness, 70-below-zero cold and hurricane storms
-- on a hunt for penguin eggs that Scott wanted for scientific study.
The fool's errand wrecked Cherry's body and spirit. "This journey had
beggared our imagination; no words could express its horror," Cherry
wrote. He was wrong, though. His beautiful, horrifying book does
exactly that.
4. K2: The Savage Mountain http://snipurl.com/k2_savage
By Charles S. Houston and Robert H. Bates
McGraw-Hill, 1954
The Himalayan mountain K2 is 784 feet shorter than Everest but four
times deadlier. In 1953, seven Americans, led by Charles Houston and
Robert Bates, attempted K2's first ascent. At 25,000 feet, altitude
sickness immobilized climber Art Gilkey, who would die, it was
determined, unless he were immediately evacuated. K2's vicious terrain
and weather made such an attempt virtual suicide, but Gilkey's comrades
never hesitated. At 24,700 feet, five of them, joined by ropes, fell
while trying to lower Gilkey down a 45-degree slope of ice in a howling
storm. The last man standing, Pete Schoening, jammed his ax behind a
rock, held on for dear life and saved everyone from certain death.
"Schoening's Belay" resides in the pantheon of mountaineering feats. In
a more tragic irony than any playwright could devise, just hours later
an avalanche swept Gilkey away but spared the other six, who descended
alive but shattered. As Houston and Bates relate in "K2: The Savage
Mountain," climbing's true summit was the brotherhood of the rope, "men
banded together in a common effort of will and strength -- not against
this or that imagined foeman of the instant, but against their only
true enemies: inertia, cowardice, greed, ignorance, and all weaknesses
of the spirit." Their willingness to die for a friend earned them a
renown that has escaped K2's eventual conquerors.
5. Minus 148 degrees http://snipurl.com/Minus_148
By Art Davidson
Norton, 1969
In February 1967, Art Davidson, Ray Genet and Dave Johnston completed
the first winter ascent of Mount McKinley in Alaska, but on descent a
monster storm trapped them at 18,500 feet. For six days they survived --
barely -- in a coffin-size ice cave, enduring 150-mph winds and
temperatures that reached minus 148 degrees -- hence the title of
Davidson's subsequent account. This finely crafted adventure tale runs
on adrenaline but also something else: brutal honesty. Given access to
all seven expedition members' journals, Davidson revealed that every
"men vs. nature" tale has another dimension: men vs. themselves. His
story of extreme mountaineering's good, bad and ugly spares no one --
especially himself. At one desperate point he volunteers to descend
alone to "send in help." But: "I knew my reasons for a solo descent
were flimsily constructed excuses to conceal my desire to save Art
Davidson above all else." Before "Minus 148 degrees," mountain tales
glowed with heroism and self-sacrifice. Davidson's was the first to
show the darker aspects as well.
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