 My daughter asked if I’d read it.
“Ishmael?” I thought and there was the smallest germ of memory. “Is the story about a telepathic gorilla?”
“Re-read it.” my daughter suggested. “It’s your kind of a book…the gorilla is also an environmentalist."
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 I’ll come clean at the start, the three authors of Backcountry Skiing: Skills for Ski Touring and Ski Mountaineering, are acquaintances of mine. That means my praise of their book needs to be taken with some suspicion. That being said, I'll also say this is the best and most authoritative book on the market about backcountry skiing.
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 In this essay excerpted from the book, East of the Divide, Chester Marler discusses how Pleistocene glaciers and glaciers that advanced during the Little Ice Age sculpted Mt Maude, Mt Fernow, and other mountains flanking the Entiat River Valley....
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