Results for keyword: memory
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Kayaking memories on the White Salmon River
Will all of a kayaker's memories of Washington's White Salmon River change once the river changes, now that Condit Dam is gone?
by Mike Barenti, May 24, 2012 -
The West is always wild to the young
Gary Lantz may lament that the West he roamed as a young man no longer exists – but to young people like his son, the West is still a magical place filled with the promise of adventure.
by Gary Lantz, Oct 15, 2007 -
Oh, those summer nights at the drive-in!
Jonathan Thompson takes his family to one of the West’s last drive-in movies, and fondly remembers his own misspent youth.
by Jonathan Thompson, Jul 30, 2007 -
Safe out there
To an aging, mentally ill woman named Jade, the beautiful Colorado day is filled with sinister, frightening demons, and even a well-meaning neighbor can do nothing to drive them away.
by Laura Pritchett, Apr 30, 2007 -
The knowledge of mules
After more than a decade of a solitary existence packing mules in the Northern Rockies, the writer is seriously injured and must reconsider his way of life.
by Jason Fisher, Mar 05, 2007 -
I fell into a burning ring of fire
There’s nothing like a campfire to soothe and lift the soul
by Laura Paskus, Dec 25, 2006 -
Our Green Mountain
A writer recalls the adventures he had had in Quincy, Calif., 20 years ago, when he was the youthful editor of a small-town independent paper called the Green Mountain Gazette
by Jaime O'Neill, Oct 02, 2006 -
The memory of mountains
The author remembers a long-ago hike up Pikes Pike with her mother, who later died having no memory of that hike, or of her daughter.
by Diane Sylvain, Sep 18, 2006 -
One war that's worth the fight
In his memoir, Walking It Off, wilderness activist Doug Peacock tries to make sense of a life spent dealing with war, fighting for wilderness, and coping with cantankerous friends like the late Ed Abbey
by Laura Paskus, Jun 26, 2006 -
Trading goods, and stories, on the reservation
In Along Navajo Trails, Will Evans tells the stories of the Navajo Indians who came into his Shiprock Trading Post during the first part of the last century
by Erica Olsen, Jun 12, 2006
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