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  • Inside the fall

    A writer celebrates finding happiness and finding herself, as she romps with her children in the beautiful season of autumn

    by Laura Pritchett, Oct 17, 2005

  • Odes to an urban mountain range

    Two recent guidebooks – Mike Coltrin’s Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide and The Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains by Robert Julyan and Mary Stuever – are excellent guides to the trails and histories of the mountains outside Albuquerque

    by Laura Paskus, Oct 31, 2005

  • A long walk into hope

    Bill McKibben’s new book, Wandering Home, is a hopeful account of a leisurely hike across northeastern America, as relevant to the West as it is to the East

    by George Sibley, Oct 31, 2005

  • The end of something really big

    The chance to see a huge dead whale draws "carcass tourists" to the California coast

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Oct 31, 2005

  • The day they close the pass

    As mountain towns get more accessible and lively, even in midwinter, the author relishes the way his tiny, remote town slows to a stop once the mountain pass highway is closed for the season

    by Steve Voynick, Nov 14, 2005

  • Wild in the city

    "Wild in the City: A Guide to Portland's Natural Areas," edited by Michael Houck and M.J. Cody, gathers maps, site guides, and essays celebrating the city's wildlife and preserved landscapes.

    by John Rosapepe, Apr 09, 2001

  • A sand-brown world

    "Getting Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest," an anthology edited by Scott Slovic, is a fine and inclusive work that features familiar and unfamiliar writers.

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Jun 04, 2001

  • The importance of being nowhere

    The writer muses about his good fortune in falling in love with an Arizona landscape that nobody else seems to have noticed.

    by Charles Bowden, Nov 19, 2001

  • A winter drive into oblivion

    During a long drive through a Western blizzard, times seems to come to a stop as you wonder whether you will ever make it home – in safety –a gain.

    by David Feela, Jan 20, 2003

  • High tea in the wilderness and a toast to the light

    Forty women meet in a Montana wilderness to celebrate the solstice with high tea and drink a toast to returning light.

    by Annick Smith, Jan 20, 2003
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