Our Last Backpack: A Memoir

Two men, both in their early fifties, undertook a hike along the fabled Mahoosuc Range of northern New Hampshire in the summer of 1966. One of them, Daniel Doan, is the author of this story of their week-long adventure. The other, Dr. Claud Sharps, a Laconia veterinarian, was Doan's old friend and hiking companion from childhood. Our Last Backpack recounts in lyrical but direct prose their encounters along the trail, Doan's growing awareness of his own physical limitations, and the clash of...