Synopses & Reviews
Mountain Gazette offered proof that outdoor literature need not be an oxymoron. Running a scant eight years, from 1972 to 1979, the magazine featured material by major writers and artists on outdoor and adventure subjects. This volume collects the best material nonfiction, fiction, photography, cartoons, and illustrations from the old and new Mountain Gazette. Selections include singer-songwriter Katie Lees The Ride, a meditation on biking through town naked; Jeff Longs The Crusoe, a gripping story about a stranded climber; and Richard Bangss Tatshenshini Trail, about a memorable Alaskan rafting trip. Other contributors include Edward Abbey, Galen Rowell, John Jerome, and Andrew Weil.
Synopsis
Since 1972, Mountain Gazette magazine has been delighting, surprising and offending readers with great essays, flippant features, outrageous opinion, and memorable short fiction on almost any subject even remotely connected with mountains. You won't love everyghing in this eclectic anthology, but we know that one or two of these pieces will stay with you for a long while. It's all here: Pieces about climbing, backpacking, skiing, snowboarding, river-running, drinking, road tripping, sex, flyfishing, naked bike riding. Pieces about gear shops, saunas, trucks, the simple life, the complicated life, life and death.