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100 Classic Hikes in Oregon, 2nd Edition
Oregon's classiest hiking guidebook is all color and packed with the best trails the state has to offer -- which is saying a lot!
100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park: Includes Surrounding Hoover and Ansel Adams Wilderness Areas, Mammoth Lakes, and Sonora Pass
This full-color guidebook not only offers the best 100 hikes in and around Yosemite National Park, but is also one of the best-looking guidebooks you'll ever own.
1001 Climbing Tips
“1001 Climbing Tips is a refreshing take on the climbing guide genre. Irreverent, it has a laugh on virtually every page, but also some extremely useful advise and some points of genuine interest.” – Paul Pritchard, 2016 Banff Mountain Book Competition Jury
A Blistered Kind of Love: One Couple's Trial by Trail
In alternating chapters a young couple each tells their account of the epic Pacific Crest Trail adventure (a 2,655-mile hike) that deepened their bond -- or did it?
A Fine Line: Searching for Balance Among Mountains
A coming-of-age memoir that grapples with growing awareness of climate change and friends lost to the mountains
A Sideways Look at Clouds
A natural history, filled with intrigue and humor, of our ubiquitous yet utterly fascinating clouds
A Thousand Trails Home: Living with Caribou
An extraordinary and intimate exploration of Alaska’s modern landscape, communities, and iconic wildlife
A Wild Promise: Prince William Sound
"'A Wild Promise: Prince William Sound' is unreservedly and urgently recommended for personal, community, and academic library collections and contemporary environmental studies reading lists." - Midwest Book Review
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land
Exquisite photography of the life in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, along with essays by writers such as Peter Matthiessen and David Allen Sibley
Arctic Solitaire: A Boat, a Bay, and the Quest for the Perfect Bear
"In freely sharing what he sees and experiences, Souders immerses his audience in a captivating adventure, offering an intimate view of both the perils of lone exploration and the stunning beauty of the wild. The result is a rare, enchanting treat for any reader." -Foreword Reviews
Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
A celebration in words and photography of the birds that migrate each year to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to nest and return to every point on the globe
Been Outside: Adventures of Black Women, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming People in Nature
'Like a chorus of ‘yes’ to a world that has said ‘no’ once too often, these voices are defiant, joyous, vulnerable, unapologetic, badass, and simply gorgeous." -- from the foreword by Carolyn Finney
Being Caribou
A research project to the Arctic National Wildlfe Preserve slowly becomes much more as the author and his wife learn to hear the earth, pay attention to their dreams and slowly change, beyond their expectations, into being caribou.
Brotherhood of the Rope: The Biography of Charles Houston
The biography of Charles Houston, M.D., famed for leading the heroic K2 expedition of 1953 and his pioneering research in high-altitude medicine.
Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber
Anecdotes chronicle the history of Yosemite climbing -- significant climbs and riveting controversies from the golden age of big-wall Yosemite climbing
Caribou Rainforest: From Heartbreak to Hope
“In a new book, photographer David Moskowitz turns his lens on the story of a rapidly declining species and habitat” – Smithsonian
Cascade Alpine Guide, Vol 1: Columbia River to Stevens Pass: Climbing & High Routes, 3rd Edition
Volume one of Fred Beckey's classic guidebooks to climbing in the Cascades
Cascade Alpine Guide, Vol. 2; Stevens Pass to Rainy Pass: Climbing & High Routes, 3rd Edition
Fred Beckey's three-volume guidebooks to climbing in the Cascades are considered must-have classics for all who set an anchor in this Northwest mountain range
Cascade Alpine Guide, Vol. 3: Rainy Pass to Fraser River: Climbing & High Routes, 3rd Edition
This is one of the three-volume classic Fred Beckey guidebooks to climbing in the Cascades
Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry
Science and art combine to create a poetic ecology--a field guide and literary anthology that celebrates the natural beauty of the Cascadia bioregion
Climbing Self-Rescue: Essential Skills, Technical Tips & Improvised Solutions
Modern guide offers best practices essentials for climbing self-rescue
Crack Climbing: The Definitive Guide
Locate crack in rock face. Jam in fingers, hands, fists, elbows, knees, thighs. Pull body up. Experience pain and fear. Go read Pete Whittaker’s book.
Dirty Gourmet Plant Power: Food for Your Outdoor Adventures
Beautiful and practical guide for outdoor cooking with modern, healthy, plant-based recipes to boost any outdoor adventure!
Discovering the Outlaw Trail: Routes, Hideouts, and Stories from the Wild West
A colorful, history-packed outdoor travel guide to more than 90 outlaw trail destinations throughout the West
Dragons in the Snow: Avalanche Detectives and the Race to Beat Death in the Mountains
A gripping, fast-paced story that blends backcountry ski and snowboard adventure with avalanche forecasting, rescue, and survival
Earth Almanac: Nature's Calendar for Year-Round Discovery
Inspirational nature notes for every day of the year!
Everest: The West Ridge, Anniversary Edition
The classic, gripping mountaineering saga of the first ascent of Everest's West Ridge
Explore Europe on Foot: Your Complete Guide to Planning a Cultural Hiking Adventure
"...Are you actively seeking the tools to plan your own European slow travel experience in the outdoors? Affirmative answers mean you need this full color, carefully detailed guide book. 'Explore Europe On Foot' takes you by the hand now, so your feet can take you on a cultural hiking adventure later." –Hiking For Her
Forget Me Not: A Memoir
An insightful and at times wrenching memoir of love lost and love found, set against a backdrop of the world's tallest peaks
Found: A Life in Mountain Rescue
A thoughtful, elegant exploration of the hardships and joys of search and rescue, life and death, risk and motherhood