Colorado Scrambles: Climbs Off the Beaten Path: Dave Cooper

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Completely redesigned and revised–now with five new routes in Colorado’s High Country.

Colorado Scrambles includes more than 50 scrambling routes in the major mountain ranges of Colorado. Author Dave Cooper (Colorado Snow Climbs) climbed each of these high-quality routes, selecting them based on challenge, rock quality, location, and interesting route finding. In scrambling, climbers use both hands and feet to get up a mountain, using a rope, if at all, only to protect short sections. Other than a rope and a little hardware, all a climber needs is a good pair of boots, a daypack, and foul-weather gear. In technical terms, scrambling is moving over 3rd- and 4th-class rock, often with a considerable amount of exposure.

About the Author
DAVE COOPER has climbed extensively in the Andes, Himalayas, Canadian Rockies and the Alaska Range and has spent 25 years exploring the Colorado mountains. He has spent 15 years teaching mountaineering for The Colorado Mountain Club including rock and ice climbing and ski mountaineering.

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A world traveler, Isabella Bird recorded her 1873 visit to Colorado Territory in her classic travel narrative, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. This work inspired Robert Root’s own discovery of Colorado’s Front Range following his move from the flatlands of Michigan. In this elegantly written book, Root retraces Bird’s three-month journey, seeking to understand what Colorado meant to her–and what it would come to mean for him.

Following Isabella is a work of intersecting histories. Root interweaves an overview of Bird’s life and work with regional history, nature writing, and his own travels to produce a uniquely informative and entertaining narrative. He probes Bird’s self-transformation as her writing moved from private letters to published books, and also draws on reflections of other authors of her day, including Grace Greenwood and Helen Hunt Jackson. Like Bird, Root experiences his most fulfilling moments in the mountains, climbing formidable Longs Peak, living alone in the cabin of famed editor William Allen White, and wandering wild landscapes.

Through reflections on earlier writers’ experiences, and by weighing his own response to them, Root learns not only how to come to Colorado, as visitors so often do, but more important, how to stay.

From the Publisher
Robert Root is Professor Emeritus of English, Central Michigan University and teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University. An author and editor, his most recent works are Landscapes With Figures: The Nonfiction of Place and The Nonfictionist’s Guide: On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction.

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It’s a journey that starts at Blarney Island, a rowdy bar in the middle of a lake accessible only by boat, and ends sixty miles down the Fox River at Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, one of the world’s greatest examples of mini-malist modern architecture. Between those two extremes you’ll discover a world of amazing history and colorful characters. Geoffrey Baer takes viewers on a trip along the historic Fox River from the Chain O’Lakes in far northern Illinois, all the way south to Aurora.

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“One of the best ways to learn about the Olympic National Park … is to read Tim McNulty’s natural history guide . … He creates a portrait of the park from coast to rain forest and snow-covered peaks in his usual graceful style, weaving stories of science and history and nature.” Everett Herald “Tim McNulty carries readers along with a combination of intimate knowledge and unbounded enthusiasm.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer “Pick any page … and start reading. Instead of stuffy prose and highly technical terms, you’ll find a warm conversational tone. [This] book packs an encyclopedic range of information about Olympic National Park’s natural history.” The Sequim Gazette

In this thoroughly revised edition, Tim McNulty returns his gaze to the Olympic National Park: 1,400 square miles of rugged mountains and wilderness in the heart of the Olympic Peninsula. By examining the effects of global warming and its rapid changes throughout the region alongside current archaeological discoveries that shed new light on the early people of the peninsula, McNulty brings together our past and future. McNulty also tells the stories of the Olympic National Park’s animal populations. From marmots and black bears to the prospect of reintroducing wolves, he then looks at the resurgence of bald eagles, peregrine falcons, and the burgeoning sea otter populations rejuvenating the coastal ecosystems. Finally, the restoration of the Elwha River, the removal of salmon-blocking dams, and salmon recovery efforts across the peninsula are bringing wildlife back to the wilderness. Tim McNulty is a poet and nature writer living in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains.