[mtn.climber]

Trail of the Lost. The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail. Authored by Andrea Lankford, a former NPS investigative ranger. She spent four years involved with various personnel searching for the three individuals that were lost and never found while hiking the PCT. One of them, Kris Fowler (Sherpa) was lost in WA. The other two in Southern California.

[Waterman]

Ultra-Processed People The science behind food That Isn't Food Chris Van Tulleken Interesting book on ultra processed foods (UPF). How the procedure of refining ingredients is the cause of health issues. A bit stomach churning, but pretty much confirmed my thoughts toward ' convenience foods'. Not just snacks, but the whole industrial food chain. Whenever I talked about the 'food' I was eating,she corrected me: 'Most UPF is not food ,Chris. It's an industrially produced edible substance '. PS Just finished. More disgusting than I realized. If you read 1 book on nutrition this year. Choose this one.

[Ski]

^ I generally try to avoid ALL of the aisles in the middle of the supermarkets. If other people want to eat that garbage, I figure that's possibly fewer people I'll be standing behind in line. meant to mention this earlier... "A Sound Defense - Military Sites, Lighthouses, and Memorials of Puget Sounds" by Nancy McDaniel of Chimacum, Washington My mother and I went to a "craft fair" of sorts up at Discovery Bay, where we found the author peddling her works. This one is fascinating local history.

[Ski]

https://www.fs.usda.gov/rm/pubs_series/rmrs/rp/rmrs_rp108.pdf

[Malachai Constant]

The MANIAC, by Benjamin Labatut An examination of von Neumanns influence on mid 20 century Mathematics, Physics, Computers, AI, Philosophy, and History. von Neumann laid the mathematical basis for Quantum Mechanics, designed Atomic and Hydrogen bombs, and the first general purpose digital computers. His work is described by imagined statements by his contemporaries Turning, Feynman, Einstein, and others. The author also wrote, When We Cease to Understand the World.

[lookout bob]

"The Salt Path" by Raynor Winn.....a lovely book about folks who lose their home and then hike the 620 mile long trail around Cornwall England. She is a very descriptive writer and I'm well into her second book "The Wild Silence."

[Waterman]

Network of lies Epic saga of Fox news.... Brian Stelter media insider wades through the Dominion vs Fox transcripts. Very illuminating. Murdoch says to Scott "Fox News and shows like Hannity should not champion public figures who appear mad". 2/5/21

[Snow_Knot]

https://www.amazon.com/Biggest-Piece-Back-Steve-Smith/dp/0878421084

A must read if you are into Aviation, and Wildland FireFighting.

[Mike Collins]

The recent death of Lou Whittaker spurred my interest in reading his autobiography. Lou frames his love of the mountains with mountain adventures, rescues, and tragedies. We have lost a mentor who introduced thousands to the mountains through his guide services. You’ll certainly enjoy and maybe even be inspired by his book.

[Krummholz]

"Edge of the Map" by Johanna Garton Mountaineers Books The story of Christine Boskoff who held the USA women's record for climbing the most 8000 meter peaks. She also owned Mountain Madness guide service in Seattle for a time. The story was especially interesting to me because both the author and the subject are from my hometown of Appleton, WI, where I grew up and recently moved back to, after 37 years in Western Washington. Search "Boskoff" on this site for more information.

[jinx'sboy]

“The Company” - The Rise and fall of the Huidson’s Bay Empire. 2020 Stephen R Brown https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51114662-the-company Excellent! Very detailed history of the fur trade and British politics.

[Logbear]

I got this complete set of the Lewis and Clark Journals as a gift a while back and I figured it would be pretty neat to read the journals every day and follow the expedition as it went along. Day by day.

I mean, how hard could it be to just read what they wrote. Capt Lewis and Capt Clark had to write every day with a quill and ink. Every day! If they couldn't make an actual journal entry that day they'd make notes and write the journal later. And they had to do it in the heat, cold, rain, and snow, with Grizzly Bears, Indians, hail storms, buffalo, etc. etc. Every day one Capt would write the journal entry and then the other Capt would copy it so there were always 2 copies. Their intention was to send a copy by ship when they reached the Pacific Ocean. But they never met a ship. The 2 entries are usually identical, but not always. On April 27th, 1806, Capt Lewis wrote the first one and Capt Clark copied it. Lewis wrote that a distance between hill and a river was 9 miles. Clark wrote that it was 10 miles. Clark also added that they traveled 31 miles that day. Clark was the map maker and these distances were important to him. Another examples of these minor differences: Lewis would say that hunters were sent out to get game. Clark would name the individual members that were sent out, and how successful they were. Sometimes the Capt writing the copy did something different that day, so the second copy had additions first copy didn't have. A few times the Captains were separated and kept separate journals. Then when they got back together they copied each others. Anyway, I tried to read the journals every day and I couldn't do it. Here's a sample of April 27th.

Here's a bit little of Lewis and Clark trivia. When the Corps of Discovery finally returned to St Louis in September 1806, they had used up just about everything they had brought. Their clothing had long since rotted away. They all wore elk hide. Clark had his slave, York make moccasins.

[mike]

Somewhere between the "Definitive Journals" and the DeVoto I see on the shelf is the Hosmer edition. 2 vols brown cloth. See..

[Logbear]

It's hard to get reading done with all these distractions.

[Malachai Constant]

Matterhorn, by Christopher Reich combination of climbing and spy novel.