A Night On the Ground A Day in the Open

[Kerstin]

I'd like to recommend this book by Doug Robinson. The book's title really explains what this book is all about. Some chapter titles are:

Wanderers of the Range of Light--How old is the tradition of Sierra vagabonds?

Mountaineering Means Just Glad to Be Here

Running Talus

Moving Over Stone

Fool for Stone

A High Route Fit for the Sierra


This is a book that I've read again and again over the years. I'd highly recommend it to anyone interested in backcountry skiing, rock climbing and mountaineering and just enjoying that feeling of being alive in the mountains.

[Jason-Julius]

Thanks for recommending Kerstin! I have read that book and that was a fantastic book, especially the chapter: Fool for Stone I like this chapter.

[oldhikerQ]

Thank you for posting this. I have had that book for years, and thoroughly enjoy it. Still pull it out and read a chapter or two every so often.
Got turned on to his writing when the LA Times published an abridged version of his Pinheads meet the YoYos article in their Sunday magazine ages ago.