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Posted in Book Reviews, Gear, hiking on Nov 4th, 2011
A great way to find hiking books (and many other books!) on the cheap is to find out if your local library has book sales. Many libraries have a “Friends of the Library” program that goes to pay for special activities/programs. Where we live our library is in the massive King County Library System (busiest [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Gear, hiking, Hiking Gear on Jun 29th, 2011
A few weeks ago I had the chance to finally meet author Craig Romano in person – I was lucky enough to attend one of his presentations and as it turned out it was his first one for his latest book: Backpacking Washington: Overnight and Multi-Day Routes To put it lightly it has been far [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on May 14th, 2011
I hit the bonanza this week at our local libraries library guild book sale. Not only did I score guidebooks I didn’t have I also found a vintage copy of an outdoor cookbook – and I paid a meager 50¢ a book for nearly all of them. I get good books and the library guild [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on May 6th, 2011
A recent pick I found at our local Costco is a great guidebook for hikers in Washington State. The Creaky Knees Guide Washington: The 100 Best Easy Hikes in the State came out in 2009. The author, Seabury Blair, Jr is well known for his local dayhiking books and the Creaky Knees is just as [...]
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 25¢!): Yukon [...]
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
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