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See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge <most pot hole filling [reformatting, citation completion] welcome> Related news groups: rec.arts.books.* rec.arts.books.reviews (moderated) alt.books.reviews 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 important 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@connected.com (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 Washington 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, Although I hope biologists and bear res live in bear country and who want a better understanding of the bears with which they live. That is exactly what he accomplished. A great resource to answer any question about bears. From: dnelson@connected.com (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 isnt difficult to read or understand, the text isnt of the same excellent From: dnelson@connected.com (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@coloma.com (Donna McMaster) %X Actual journals of both captains as they forged through the wilderness. %X It is incredible the hardships 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@coloma.com (Donna McMaster) %A John Murray, ed. %T The Great Bear %X A compilation of some of the best nature writersessays 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 Sport %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 reports, 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 opportunities 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 publishing 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 important 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 Starship and the Canoe %I Harper and Row %D 1978 %K Freeman and George Dyson, Robin Graham: The [Voyage of the] Dove %A Joshua Slocum %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 fashioning 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 stewardship 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 sportsman'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 fashion. 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 KeyPorter 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 Shit 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 %X 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. %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 ship 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 report. 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-shirts 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 report: $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 shining 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: sex 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@qualcomm.com %T Computing Across America %O nomadness-request@ucsd.edu http://microship.ucsd.edu %T 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@coloma.com (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 Fishing: %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 Important %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 sports 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 sport 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/Cummings 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. <END CONSTRUCTION ZONE> 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/ Snake 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@buggs.Mtc.ti.com> Subject: backcountry reading Eugene, after seeing the discussion on backcountry reading on rec.backcountry, I decided to send you my list accumulated 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@ticipa.mtc.ti.com PO Box 655012 M/S 3635 TI MSG: JMCC Dallas, TX 75265 Voice: (214) 917-2201 FAX: (214) 917-2939 ================================================================================ 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@renoir.llnl.gov (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@cs.vu.nl (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). Porter, Gene Stratton "The Girl of the Linberlost" "The Harvester" Randall, Glenn "Cold Comfort" ron@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (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 Publishing 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 Sports 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 circumnavigation 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 Slocum Woods, Robert "Pleasure Backkpacking" ..equipment review; From: cheu@venus.its.uci.edu (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 Spaceship 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@ticipa.mtc.ti.com PO 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 stewardship 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 Publishing, 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 Publishing 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@baldy.den.mmc.com (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@cie-2.uoregon.edu> 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@cie-2.uoregon.edu Work: (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@saifr00.ateng.az.honeywell.com (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., Portland, Oregon 97215 phone 503-232-5596 %O $13.00 postpaid. References on climbing/backpacking for the disabled: A Book: Sports 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@craycos.com (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@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (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@aol.com (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 Publishing...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@nile.com -- if you contact them, tell 'em Nina sent ya. Good luck! Article 71927 of rec.backcountry: From: jlance@hermes.oc.com (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 (Laporte, 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 Toshio Sahashi 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 Toshio Sahashi 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 Toshio Sahashi 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 Publishing %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 passes 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 relationships 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 incorporating 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 transport-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 passes), 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 assessing 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 important 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 meansfeet 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 footself-propelled, so to speakand 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, or- utilizing the paved road which already exists-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 yearsif 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 opportunity 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 hardship, 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 report 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. Article 89025 of rec.arts.books: From: Mark Down <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> Author-Supplied-Address: fritz <AT> spamexpire-200704 <DOT> rodent <DOT> frell <DOT> theremailer <DOT> net Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,alt.history,soc.history,alt.history.british Subject: Top 5 man-vs-nature books Message-ID: <a690f365d3c0b2ac59431112ff2b4696@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:11:46 +0200 Mail-To-News-Contact: abuse@dizum.com Organization: mail2news@dizum.com Path: darkstar!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!feeder.news-service.com!feeder1.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!news.wiretrip.org!news.dizum.com!sewer-output!mail2news-x4!mail2news-x3!mail2news-x2!mail2news Xref: darkstar rec.arts.books:89025 soc.history:45924 Wall Street Journal - April 28, 2007 [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 snakes, black panthers -- and then the real adventure began. Fever and snakebite 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 ship'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 ships. It was an astonishing 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. 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. 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Putin the actual glitz: gorgeous Russian soldiers take centre stage (moreover selfies) At massive wining Day parade of 13,000 troops, Tanks and rockets as Moscow strongman warns the lessons of WW2 'are relevant once again'Vladimir Putin forced to cancel military flypast over Red Square at the last minute over fears of bad weatherThreat of thunder and cloud over Moscow saw the huge Victory Day display of military powergroundedDespite cancellation Russian president pledged to 'guarantee the high drives of our armed forces'By Chris Dyer For Mailonline and Will Stewart In Russia and Afp and Reuters
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Russian lead designer Vladimir Putin took a defiant tone at Moscow's annual military Victory Day parade in Red Square, Declaring that the country continues to strengthen its armed forces.
The Kremlin strongman observed on as 13,000 troops and more than 130 pieces of weaponry were paraded through the capital in a show of Russian military power.
discussing his country's battle with Nazi Germany, Putin then warned 'the lessons of the past war are relevant once again' as he made his case for 'guaranteeing the high faculties of our armed forces'.
Russia's ties with the West soured correct its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, And Moscow has continued to challenge the nation through its staunch support for Syrian President Bashar al Assad and Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro.
Among the hundreds of pieces of military hardware paraded in front of veterans and dignitaries was Russia's Yars mobile global nuclear missile launcher and its advanced S 400 air defence missile system, Which Moscow has deployed in Syria guard its forces and Putin's new 120,000 4.4 lite V 8 ragtop limousine.
have been also regiments of glamorous female soldiers on display who were pictured smiling as they filed past Mr Putin.
It also included military equipment, Ranging from a T 34 tank renowned for its toughness in World War II to lumbering Yars ICBM launch units, Ground to air rocket missile parts and Russian Armata tanks.
Russian female military servicemen march during the Victory Day parade on Red square in Moscow on Thursday afternoon
Smiling Russian naval cadets were pictured marching in perfect step as they filed past Putin the actual Victory Day parade
Russian Armata tanks roll down Red Square the particular Victory Day military parade to celebrate 74 years since the victory in WWII in Red Square in Moscow
Russian Ground Forces commander in Chief, Colonel common Oleg Salyukov salutes the troops from Putin's new 120,000 collapsible limousine during the Victory Day military parade today
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech face to face with St. Basil's Cathedral during the Victory Day parade i which he pledged to'guarantee the high performance of our armed forces'
Russian Yars RS 24 intercontinental ballistic missile systems roll through Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in downtown Moscow today
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