Thoughts on two Books: The Darkest White and Salt Lake Ski Atlas
So much good information is out there about the backcountry scene. Pete Vordenberg tosses around some ideas relating to The Darkest White and the Salt Lake Ski Atlas.
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Category: Non-Gear Reviews
Book Review: Avalanche Dreams—Lou Dawson’s Lessons for Life
Lou grew up in a haze of hippiedom, moving from the east to Texas to Colorado. He highlights the imagination, insecurity, excitement, and dismay in a counterculture beatnik upbringing and recounts stories of Aspen before its glam heyday. Challenges at home fueled a drive towards the outdoors, a theme carried through his story. The high country finds him as much as he finds it.
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Select Peaks of Greater Yellowstone—A Mountaineering History and Guide: A Review
Guides to the backcountry run the gamut in terms of quality, thoroughness, too little beta, too much beta, no history (as in literally just photos and photoshopped lines and arrows), too much history, and general shoddiness. A good guidebook goes back to the old saying, “you know it when you see it,” or in this case, see it and read it.
Tom Turiano updates his 2003 bible, Select Peaks of Greater Yellowstone—A Mountaineering History & Guide: The revised and expanded edition is gold.
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