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Posted in Book Reviews, hiking on May 4th, 2011
If you watched the series “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” (and if you haven’t you better!) and you watched episode 4, there is an older lady interviewed, Ruth Kirk. To get a feeling of how many books she wrote read this article on her from last year. So I was a wee bit excited [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Mar 14th, 2011
A Walk for Sunshine: A 2,160 Mile Expedition for Charity on the Appalachian Trail, 3rd Edition, now in its 3rd edition, by author Jeff Alt, is an interesting read. Originally published in 2000, it covers Jeff’s thru-hike of the AT (Appalachian Trail) to raise awareness and money for the home where his brother resides (in [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Dec 17th, 2010
Our local library has an active Friends of the Library and have a well stocked year round book sale in the back of our library. I try to check it often as I have come across some rare gems over the past couple years. Last week paid off when I came across (for 25ยข!): Yukon [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Food Finds, Trail Cooking on Aug 10th, 2010
Making pizza on a Caldera Stove? Yes! Check it our for a gourmet meal! I found a couple more books to add to our Trail Library recently. A few are still on the way, those added recently though? Kayak Cookery: A Handbook of Provisions and Recipes – First edition from 1986. Packrat Papers (Volume 2) [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Other, Trail Cooking on Jun 10th, 2010
A smattering of vintage trail and outdoor cookbooks showed up today and have been added to our ever expanding Trail Library. You just don’t see covers like this anymore! Love the Beefcake pose in jeans I also updated our list we have on what we are looking for here. ~Sarah
Posted in Book Reviews on Mar 22nd, 2010
A review of an older book, currently out of print, one that sits in our collection of trail cookbooks. Do you remember “Trailside: Make Your Own Adventure”? – it was a TV show on in the early 90′s that originally partnered with Backpacker Magazine, which was hosted by John Viehman (the then Executive Editor of [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Mar 16th, 2010
Harriett Barker was in my eyes one of the pioneers of trail cooking and outdoor cookbooks. I have talked before about her second book, The Supermarket Backpacker – a book that I happen to love and has a prized spot in my large collection of outdoor cookbooks. The One-Burner Gourmet was her first outdoor cookbook, [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Mar 3rd, 2010
A week or two ago one of the guys on one of the hiking forums sent me a care package of books to read (thanks!!) and in it was a copy of The Great Divide- A Walk Through American Along The Continental Divide by Stephen Pern. The book came out in 1987 originally and was [...]
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