[Hesman]

Listening to the audiobook of First by Evan Thomas. It is a recent biography of Sandra Day O’Conner. Narration isn’t the best, but the content has been rather interesting.

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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. - Abraham Lincoln
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss

[Malachai Constant]

Alpine Lakes Wilderness, the complete hiking guide, Nathan and Jeffery Barnes. New guide generally superior to old guides good maps. Does not reveal sekret routes. Got as a gift this week.

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"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn

[olderthanIusedtobe]

[olderthanIusedtobe]

I read something by Blake Crouch several years ago.  It was good but I hadn't tried any of his other books.  I was aware of the TV series Good Behavior but didn't watch it.  It was based on a series of short stories he wrote that originally appeared in magazines.  Now 3 of the stories are compiled in a book called "Good Behavior."  Decent so far.

[Get Out and Go]

Finally got around to Tara Westover's narrative, Educated.  It kept me interested to hear her personal story and examine its underlying themes.

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"These are the places you will find me hiding'...These are the places I will always go."
(Down in the Valley by The Head and The Heart)

[olderthanIusedtobe]

I loved Pierce Brown's Red Rising trilogy.  A few years later he decided he wasn't done w/ the series, so began a 2nd trilogy.  I just got book #5 from the library--The Dark Age.  Holy crap, this thing is 752 pages.  Pretty sure that's the biggest book I've ever attempted to tackle.  That's 2 books really.

[Kim Brown]

[Malachai Constant]

Halfway through Educated here also. Nearly impossible to put it down.

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"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn

[olderthanIusedtobe]

[olderthanIusedtobe]

[Malachai Constant]

Bark skins, Annie Proulx a novel starting about French logger/voyagers in 18th century Canada through the present day.

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"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn

[Anne Elk]

Finally getting around to something that's been on my to-read pile for a while: Poets on the Peaks - Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades by John Suiter. What hiker hasn't fantasized about spending a season as a fire lookout?  Apparently not many in the 50's.  From the book:

Gary Snyder at Crater Mountain Lookout, August 1952:

" ... so I wrote the Ranger in Marblemount in February, listed my qualifications, which were trail crew and fire fighting work in various national forests, and experience with logging and carpentry and all that kind of thing, outdoor work, and mountaineering, and then I added: 'So I would like your highest, most remote, and most difficult-of-access lookout.' "

Apparently it was a big joke in the Ranger Station that somebody had volunteered for that lookout.  They said, "He's the guy!" and "We've got somebody who actually wants it!"

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"There are yahoos out there.  It’s why we can’t have nice things."  - Tom Mahood

[olderthanIusedtobe]

Had a bit of a losing streak.  Tried 3 different books from the library, none of them grabbed me, didn't make it very far (about 50 pages for 2 of them and only about 20 for the other).  I think I've finally got one I'm going to enjoy.  "Recursion" by Blake Crouch.  I really enjoyed his previous novel "Dark Matter."  This one has captured my interest right from the get go.

[lookout bob]

Reading "The Overstory"  by Richard Powers.  One of the finest I've read in a while.  The chapter called "Patricia Westerford" is one of the best I've read in many moons.  Read it last night and been rejoicing in it all day today.   

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"Altitude is its own reward"
John Jerome ( from "On Mountains")

[Kascadia]