What I’m Reading | Crossing the Plains with Bruno – Annick Smith
With a thousand miles of big empty to cross, writer Annick Smith finds a chocolate lab makes an excellent travel companion.
Books I like
Tag: writing
national parks North Cascades writing
Of mountains and mountaineers
Storied climber Fred Beckey died on October 30, felled by congestive heart failure at age 94 after a lifetime relentlessly dedicated to putting up routes on peaks around the world. Both Mr. Adventure and I have longstanding connections to Beckey, Mr. Adventure as a former climber and an admirer and me as an historian of the North Cascades. And last Friday, as we drove through unseasonably early snow over two mountain passes on our way…
writing
Writer’s block? At Grey Towers, not a problem.
Sure, I had a to-do list for my time as scholar-in-residence at Grey Towers. But every writer needs a break now and then…
trip reports writing
Fortnight at Grey Towers
Two weeks at the ancestral home of Gifford Pinchot, first chief of the Forest Service.
Books I like national parks
Three books to read during the National Park Service centennial
The National Park Service celebrates its centennial this year, even as it grapples with overcrowding, vandalism, lack of funding, and internal issues. I offer three books about the national parks that remind us why they are America’s best idea.