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 Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial SeasonBest Price: $13.00 I just finished this book, which was interesting enough to finish in under a week. It seemed... |  High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of GreedBest Price: $14.05 What a great book, perfectly organized, smooth writing style, though-provoking topics, bringing... |  Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)Best Price: $3.94 I re-read Leopold's Sand County Almanac every couple of years or so. It's not just a... |  Don't Waste Your Time in the Canadian Rockies: The Opinionated Hiking Guide (Don't Waste Your Time)Best Price: $26.02 A friend of mine recommended the book and we absolutely loved it. Although we only did two... |  Mountains of the Mind: Adventures in Reaching the SummitBest Price: $8.36 In this book, MacFarlane tries to trace the process by which humans - - well, European humans -... |
 Geology of the Sierra Nevada (California Natural History Guides)Best Price: $12.83 This is a nice reference source for general geologic information on Sierra Nevada. A definite... |  Polar Dream: The First Solo Expedition by a Woman and Her Dog to the Magnetic North PoleBest Price: $8.46 That's what Helen Thayer said when the natives told her she needed a dog team for protection... |  Afoot & Afield San Francisco Bay Area: A Comprehensive Hiking Guide (Afoot & Afield)Best Price: $10.24 Picked this up for an extended Northern California hiking and riding trip. I purchased about... |  Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia CommunitiesBest Price: $17.24 I personally know the author, Shirley Stewart Burns, and knew that the caliber of this story... |  Trails of the Angeles: 100 Hikes in the San GabrielsBest Price: $11.17 This book is the go to source for hiking in the San Gabriel mountains. I have earlier editions,... |
 Afoot & Afield Las Vegas And Southern Nevada: A Comprehensive Hiking Guide (Afoot and Afield)Best Price: $10.20 One hell of a book. Great descriptions of hikes in around the vegas area. As well as a few extra... |  Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the SierraBest Price: $3.99 Shatter the California Environmental Myth! Then kick it in, step on it and if there is still... |  In the Shadow of Denali: Life and Death on Alaska's Mt. McKinleyBest Price: $5.98 This is a fair, true account of one man's obsession with the highest mountain in North America. ... |  Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme AdventureBest Price: $4.80 This well written book delves into a largely unexplored but important aspect of mountaineering.... |  The Adirondacks: A History of America's First WildernessBest Price: $8.25 Adirondack Park was created in 1892 to preserve the wild forest land and inhabitants and to keep... |
 North Bay Trails: Hiking Trails In Marin, Napa And Sonoma CountiesBest Price: $10.35 I just started getting really involved with hiking and the North Bay of the Bay Area has some... |  Kilimanjaro: The Great White Mountain of AfricaBest Price: $37.80 My mom and brother both climbed Mt. Killimanjaro in Sept. 2001. And as a birthday gift to my mom... |  Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks (Regional)Best Price: $13.00 This wasn't the most exciting history book I've ever read but it was an informative and concise... |  My First Summer in the Sierra (Dover Books on Americana)Best Price: $4.62 This is an excellent, honest write. Muir reluctantly dictated this book while walking around a... |  Catskill Region Waterfall GuideBest Price: $14.95 A very good book that helped me discover some great places in the Catskills. Thanks to this book... |
 Adirondack Waterfall Guide: New York's Cool CascadesBest Price: $8.92 Some of the water falls described in the book were not even a tiny stream...the poetic... |  The Mountains of California (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $5.98 At one time, perhaps when few were able to travel, this book would have been a gem. If you enjoy... |  The Last SeasonBest Price: $2.68 When someone dies alone in the wilderness there are questions to be answered. Eric Blehm took on... |  The Naturalist's Guide to the Southern Rockies: Colorado, Southern Wyoming, and Northern New Mexico (Fulcrum Guides)Best Price: $15.29 The Naturalist's Guide provides an authoritative, user-friendly reference for anyone living in... |  Near Death in the Mountains: True Stories of Disaster and Survival (Vintage Departures Original)Best Price: $6.74 Near Death in the Mountains is not for the squeamish! Can you imagine being stranded in an... |
 The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount RainierBest Price: $4.74 The one star is for having the nerve to call Michael Crichton's State of Fear "a horrible... |  Mountains of the Heart: A Natural History of the AppalachiansBest Price: $8.99 Okay. I had to read for a college class. I wouldn't read it for pleasure, but it did have good... |  Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)Best Price: $20.51 I am enjoying this book very much. I was born in the Catskills and I am learning so much that my... |  In the Loyal MountainsBest Price: $3.35 Not every story is going to connect at one particular time and place, but this collection is... |  Mountains from Space: Peaks and Ranges of the Seven ContinentsBest Price: $19.38 These spectacular pictures taken from different media (Space.cam using Shuttle Radar) are a... |
 Beyond the Deep: The Deadly Descent Into the World's Most Treacherous CaveBest Price: $35.00 I still recommend this book highly. The story of these explorers is simply amazing. As someone... |  Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation ofAppalachiaBest Price: $2.00 Erik Reece's "Lost Mountain" is a metaphor as well as the actual name of a mountain. ... |  Field Guide to the Cascades & OlympicsBest Price: $12.42 I was looking for a small but comprehensive book to help me identify plants and animals in the... |  A Year in Paradise: A Personal Experience of Living on Mount Rainier in the Early 1900'sBest Price: $10.85 I wish I could have lived even a day of the life Floyd Schmoe describes in this colorful and... |  Teewinot: A Year in the Teton RangeThis beautifully crafted narrative presents a month-by-month, May through April, description of... |
 Alaska Wilderness: Exploring the Central Brooks RangeBest Price: $12.49 Robert Marshall explored unmapped Alaska during the years of the Great Depression and World War... |  Gunks Trails: A Ranger's Guide to the Shawangunk MountainsBest Price: $10.84 I have never been satisfied with a hiking guide to the Gunks, but now I have finally found a... |  Beyond the Aspen GroveBest Price: $8.50 The Colorado Rockies are Ann Zwinger's subject in prose and drawing. There, 8,300 feet above sea... |  Berkshire Region Waterfall Guide: Cool Cascades of the Berkshire & Taconic MountainsBest Price: $10.26 Visit 70 cool cascades in beautiful historic western Massachusetts, led by NYS-licensed hiking... |  Of Men and Mountains: The Classic Memoir of Wilderness AdventureBest Price: $39.95 This book is a wonderful and gentle journey of one man who loved to be in the mountains! As an... |
 How Old Is That Mountain?: A Visitor's Guide to the Geology of Banff and Yoho National ParksBest Price: $14.80 The most impressive part of this book is the glossary. Is anyone still reading this review? ... |  High Sierra of CaliforniaBest Price: $5.73 I have been savoring this book since I got it. Some years ago I saw Tom Killion's prints at a... |  Climbing Brandon: Science and Faith on Ireland's Holy MountainBest Price: $4.35 Mr. Raymo has a seasonal home near Mt. Brandon, has climbed the peak dozens of times and clearly... |  Look to the Mountain (Regional Interest)Best Price: $5.81 This author excellently portrays a young couple's beginnings & life adventures as the first... |  Everest (DK Eyewitness Books)Best Price: $5.72 DK has a great formula for introducing topics to kids. Beautiful graphics, excellent layout and... |
 The Rescue Season: The Heroic Story of Parajumpers on the Edge of the WorldBest Price: $1.99 I quite enjoyed reading this whole book. The information about parajumpers was mostly new to me... |  Working the Woods, Working the Sea: An Anthology of Northwest WritingBest Price: $22.00 WORKING THE WOODS, WORKING THE SEA is a unique collection of poetry and prose by Gary Snyder,... |  The Granite Landscape: A Natural History of America's Mountain Domes, from Acadia to YosemiteBest Price: $5.75 This book was written by a friend of mine and I wanted a nice copy. This copy was in virtually... |  Sacred Mountains: Ancient Wisdom and Modern MeaningsBest Price: $49.95 Cooper's work directly confronts all this nonsense produced by so-called main stream scientists... |  Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big CoalBest Price: $17.42 Time and again when reading Moving Mountains, I found myself exclaiming, "They can't do... |
 The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah ValleyBest Price: $25.00 This is a great book for anyone who is interested in the natural and human history of the Blue... |  Homage to the HimalayasBest Price: $7.94 I checked this book out of the library and fell in love with it. The landscapes have the quality... |  The Santa Monica Mountains: Range on the EdgeBest Price: $22.95 This book will definitely have regional appeal. Nice written history of the area and beautiful... |  The Black Grizzly of Whiskey CreekBest Price: $33.98 In describing the true events surrounding a series of frightening bear attacks in l980, a... |  Outdoor Photographer Magazine Calendar (2009)Best Price: $11.01 |
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