Off The Map is a collection of fifty-five outdoor adventures that take place along the rougher and more precarious edges of our country's natural splendor. Within these stories, the author engages in ill-advised confrontations with the bears of Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness, the mosquitoes of Yellowstone, and the voracious marmots of the San Juan Mountains. Driven by an unhealthy obsession with cliffs and mountaintops, the author also ventures into such serene and surreal landscapes as the redrock ravines of Utah, the abandoned gold mines of Colorado, the icefields of Iceland, the volcanic peaks of the Cascades, the depths of the Grand Canyon, and the lightning-scarred summits of the Southern Rockies. If you enjoy tales of haunted hotels and hot springs, hypothermia and heat exhaustion, as well as snapshots of the most scenic locations this continent has to offer, Off The Map will satisfy your inquisitive and adventurous spirit. Originally printed in New York's Evening Sun newspaper and collected here for the first time.
William Bryant Logan, Susan Ochshorn Roger G. Kennedy ... From his base at Fort Vancouver , Washington , John McLoughlin of the Hudson's Bay Company ordered three log cabins built next to the falls in the winter of 1828–1829 .
A hawk , driving down out of the blue , had barely missed him . While he lay in the bush , recovering from his fright and peering fearfully out , the mother - ptarmigan on the other side of the open space fluttered out of the ravaged ...
Jessica Fletcher's scenic cruise to Alaska is transformed into a search for a killer when she is joined by her old friend Kathy, who asks her to help locate her missing sister Wilimena, who vanished from the same ship during a previous ...
Palmer Museum , 723 S. Valley Way , Palmer 99645 ; ( 907 ) 745-2880 . Colony items , farm implements , flowers and vegetables that thrive in the North . Naknek : Bristol Bay Historical Museum , P.O. Box 36 , Naknek 99633 ...
In Surviving Christmas by Valerie Hansen, Sean Murray turns to K-9 officer Zoe Trent for help when he discovers someone is following him.
The Bell Jet Ranger moved sluggishly , slowed by its cargo . A kennel - type cage dangled underneath the chopper . Inside was a live polar bear cub . The cage spun in the heavy wind , tossing the frightened bear cub from side to side .
It presently rests on the green at Fort Chilkoot near Haines . Photo taken about 1904 . ( Anchorage Museum of History and Art ) House types Tlingit and Haida winter dwellings were impressive structures . Their gabled , nearly square ...
The Way to Gaamaak Cove is more than just a great adventure, it is coming-of-middle-age in which one man confronts life's big questions, reevaluates his priorities, and discovers the biggest adventure of all-love.
Anna Lloyd's life has been completely mapped out.
He's winching in the wreck . I don't know what's happened to our guys down below . " “ You want me to blow him out of the water ? Could start a shooting war . ” “ No. Buzz the bastard . Get him to release the winch .