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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 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 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

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.

Bringing Back the Birds: Exploring Migration and Preserving Birdscapes throughout the Americas
Extraordinary photographs and essays by leading ornithologists combine in this celebration of birds and exploration of why habitat protection is critical for their future

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

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

Going Higher: Oxygen, Man, and Mountains, 5th Edition
The seminal work on how the body responds to high altitude, including the current science science in this edition

How to Suffer Outside: A Beginner’s Guide to Hiking and Backpacking
Helmuth’s disarming practical advice strips away the pretentiousness of hiking and backpacking and encourages people to simply step outside—with a map, of course

Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber
Twenty-six extreme, cynical, and over-the-top stories by Dr. Doom and the only collection of his work

Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home
The history--and future--of one of the sea’s greatest mammals

Owl: A Year in the Lives of North American Owls
“For anyone who appreciates wild things and wild places, each of Paul Bannick’s stunning photographs is worth ten thousand words.”
– Ted Williams, Audubon

Postcards from the Ledge
Selections of the best writing from the elite mountaineer Greg Child now in paperback.

Rock Climbing, 2nd Edition: Mastering Basic Skills
Best-selling climbing instructional, now fully updated, includes new, vetted alternatives to traditional techniques

Scraps, Peels, and Stems: Recipes and Tips for Rethinking Food Waste at Home
"Local food writer Jill Lightner knows all the tips … her brand-new book 'Scraps, Peels, and Stems: Recipes and Tips for Rethinking Food Waste at Home' is stuffed full of them. If you’ve got the will to reduce how much you waste, she’s got all the ways." –The Seattle Times

The Big Thaw: Ancient Carbon, Modern Science, and a Race to Save the World
A team of scientists is urgently working to understand the ticking carbon bomb locked in permafrost soils which are thawing at an alarming rate.

The Bond: Survival on Denali and Mount Huntington
Friendship, sacrifice, and a fight for survival on the two most dangerous mountains in North America

The Climbers
“Jim Herrington’s wonderful new folio volume of portraits, titled simply The Climbers, aims at a lofty plateau. Herrington seeks to crystallize his own Golden Age…he tries not only to document the visages of his heroes in their older years, but also to plumb those faces for keys to the character beneath. It is as if Richard Avedon had photographed mountaineers rather than movie stars, minus the props and gimmicks.” - David Roberts, Sierra Magazine

The Packraft Handbook: An Instructional Guide for the Curious
"It is both approachable for newcomers and deep enough to satisfy experts." – Joseph Bell, President, American Packrafting Association

The Salmon Way: An Alaska State of Mind
Images and stories celebrate the connection between wild salmon and the people of Alaska--past, present, and future

The Skies Above: Storm Clouds, Blood Moons, and Other Everyday Phenomena
An accessible and stunning celebration of the often unnoticed wonders overhead

This Land of Snow: A Journey Across the North in Winter
Every journey begins with a single step, or in Morley’s case, the shush of cross-country skis