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Pub. Date
2020.
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"The Pacific Coast is home to a beautiful wonderland of recreation. Vast forests, high mountains, stark deserts all beckon the adventurous, whether they are hiking the Pacific Coast Trail, scaling the challenging faces of Yosemite, or out for a day hike along the Columbia Gorge. Yet along with this natural beauty comes risk, even for the most well-prepared. Search and Rescue Pacific Coast collects the stories of the mountaineers, rangers, and ordinary...
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Humpty Dumpty has not climbed a single wall since his great fall, despite the urging of friends and teasing of others, but when one of the king's horses is stuck he finds the courage--and the proper climbing equipment--to help out.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Adventure in Colorado's most spectacular mountain range. Whether you're looking for a world-class climbing challenge or simply an amazing hike with a view, the San Juans has it all. With thirteen of Colorado's fifty-four 14ers, and twenty-nine of the state's Centennial peaks, this magnificent mountain range offers a staggering array of options, from mellow walk-ups to advanced technical routes. As inspirational as it is practical, Climbing Colorado's...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"When the author began his career as a volunteer mountain rescuer with the Alpine Rescue Team in Colorado seventeen years ago, he was a clueless Youngstowner fresh off the interstate from Ohio who didn't know Gore-Tex from Tex-Mex. He had a lifetime of ridiculously dangerous pursuits and backcountry sins to atone for, so he became a Rocky Mountain rescuer with the intention of repaying the massive karmic debt he had accumulated. This is the story...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson sets his adventurous compass on Mount Ararat, exploring the region's long history, religious mysteries, and complex politics. Mount Ararat is the most fabled mountain in the world. For millennia this massif in eastern Turkey has been rumored as the resting place of Noah's Ark following the Great Flood. But it also plays a significant role in the longstanding conflict between Turkey and Armenia. Author Rick Antonson...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
""Dragons in the Snow"explores the world of avalanches. Journalist Power sets the reader down in the midst of a February 2017 blizzard that raked the Uinta Range as nine snowboarders made their way into the backcountry for a day of intense adventure. Meanwhile, Craig Gordon, one of the lead avalanche forecasters at the Utah Avalanche Center in. Salt Lake City, was tracking the storm and its impact, and found himself posting one of the most dire avalanche...
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Pub. Date
[2017].
Description
Julia Johnson, a native of Wisconsin, has called Colorado home for the past 67 years. She learned to fly at the age of 19 when primarily men, not women, became pilots. A graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder with degrees in English and Education, Julia became the school principal and seventh and eighth grade teacher in "old" Dillon, now buried under Lake Dillon, Colorado. During that time she learned to ski, qualifying as a member of the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Dr. David Peck's Or Perish in the Attempt ingeniously combines the remarkable adventures of Lewis and Clark with the problems of health faced by their expedition. Formidable problems indeed, but the author patiently, expertly, and humorously guides us through the medical travails of the famous journey, juxtaposing treatment then against remedy now. The result is a fascinating book which sheds new light on not only Lewis and Clark and the men they...
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