Author: Shawn R. Lyons
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780944780114
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Shawn Lyons
Publisher: Publication Consultants
ISBN: 1594337543
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Shawn Lyons, an avid hiker and hill scrambler, grew up in the Boston area, and spent his early years wandering the White Mountains. At the age of 17, he hiked the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine and at 18 hiked the Long Trail from Massachusetts to Canada. Since moving to Alaska, he has continued to hike and climb extensively. So much that after countless long hikes through innumerable valleys and over many summits, Shawn is the Acknowledged Alaska Hiking Authority. As an ultra-athlete, he is a nine-time winner of the Iditashoe wilderness snowshoe race, and three-time winner of the 100-mile Coldfoot Classic held each year on Halloween above the Arctic Circle. Shawn's narratives about his hikes and races often appear in hiking and climbing publications.

Author: Shawn R. Lyons
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781888125474
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Lynn Schooler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 160819289X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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In the spring of 2007, hard on the heels of the worst winter in the history of Juneau, Alaska, Lynn Schooler finds himself facing the far side of middle age and exhausted by laboring to handcraft a home as his marriage slips away. Seeking solace and escape in nature, he sets out on a solo journey into the Alaskan wilderness, traveling first by small boat across the formidable Gulf of Alaska, then on foot along one of the wildest coastlines in North America. Walking Home is filled with stunning observations of the natural world, and rife with nail-biting adventure as Schooler fords swollen rivers and eludes aggressive grizzlies. But more important, it is a story about finding wholeness-and a sense of humanity-in the wild. His is a solitary journey, but Schooler is never alone; human stories people the landscape-tales of trappers, explorers, marooned sailors, and hermits, as well as the mythology of the region's Tlingit Indians. Alone in the middle of several thousand square miles of wilderness, Schooler conjures the souls of travelers past to learn how the trials of life may be better borne with the help and community of others. Walking Home recalls Jonathan Raban's Passage to Juneau or Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, but with a more successful outcome. With elegance and soul, Schooler creates a conversation between the human and the natural, the past and present, to investigate what it means to be a part of the flow of human history.

Author: Shawn R. Lyons
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781888125832
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Jim DuFresne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780864422668
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Travel guide

Author: Jim DuFresne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781864500387
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Features trail descriptions for 37 treks across a variety of terrain - from shorter treks for the less experienced to five-day treks for more experienced trekkers. This guide includes information on national parks and preserves, national forests, state parks and national refuges.

Author: Helen Nienhueser
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9780898861068
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Author: Ned Rozell
Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
ISBN: 0882405942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 8

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WALKING MY DOG, JANE is Rozell's tribute to his adopted state and to the travel partner who carried Rozell's heart, and her own backpack, during a summer spent outdoors walking the 800-mile length of the trans-Alaska pipeline.

Author: Mollie Foster
Publisher: Falcon Guides
ISBN: 9781493025596
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In Alaska millions of acres of wilderness, rainforest, pecks, glaciers, and alpine ridges are waiting to be explored. Hiking Alaska gives you the information you need to plan your customized trip: Over 100 hikes to the Last Frontier's spectacular wilderness, Mile-by-mile directional cues and detailed directions to the trailheads, Special features on each trail, difficulty ratings, elevation gain, and more, This guide leads you through Alaska's national parks, wildlife refuges, national forests, wilderness areas, and state parks. Explore the breathtaking scenery of Root Glacier and the Stairway Icefall. Thrill to the adventure in the Chilkoot Pass, site of the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush. Discover glaciers and the landscape they leave behind on the Exit Glacier hike. Editor, photographer, and writer Mollie Foster is passionate about storytelling, specializing in outdoor lifestyle and adventure. She lives in Anchorage and Denali in the forty-ninth state. Falcon is the premier publisher of outdoor recreation guidebooks in North America. Written by and for outdoor enthusiasts, these guides-chockful of color photos and National Geographic maps-not only provide you with the skills you need but also take you along with our authoritative focal experts on these experiences of a lifetime. Book jacket.