The MountainGuy News: A Guide to High Mountain Exploration-on Both Sides of the Continental Divide

This is a book about backpacking and high mountain exploration. Although it is not a guide in the traditional sense, the stories in this book will introduce the reader to three very special places: the San Juan Mountains in southern Colorado, the Maroon Bells Wilderness in central Colorado, and the Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico. These are spectacular landscapes, and worth seeing.

But what this book is really about is the experience of being out on the open trail. It is about the...