Ghost Trails: Journeys through a lifetime by Jill Homer:

We crossed the last city street and entered the campground at the end of town. All around us, generators hummed amid the yellow outdoor lights and lighted windows of motorhomes and trailers. My and Geoff's campsite was quiet and dark -- just a small tent and two bicycles leaning against ( Read more... )

#54: Pickets and Dead Men: Seasons on Rainier by Bree Loewen:I remembered Glenn telling me about finding two boys who had fallen to their deaths on an icy day a little ways above here, just at the base of the Cleaver. He didn't have any nets or body bags with him, so he had to fly them out with the cable just hooked to their climbing harnesses. He ( Read more... )

#13: Body Stories: Research and Intimate Narratives on Women Transforming Body Image Through Outdoor Adventure edited by Lisa West-Smith:

At first, our Spartan diet slowed us down, our morning sugar crashes translating to falls on hard climbs, or motivation sapped by early afternoon. Then without understanding cause and effect, I came to expect-- ( Read more... )

# 12: Chasing Waves: A Surfer's Tale of Obsessive Wandering by Amy Waeschle:

I knew we were onto something good when we passed a disquieting bit of voodoo--a molding cloth doll with fraying yellow yarn hair and no eyes nailed through the head to a baby fir tree. The path was lined with salal shrubs, ferns, the occasional spiky devil's club, ( Read more... )