Good books for the backcountry

[wa_archer]

sand county almanac, awesome read and paperback fits easily in pack lid.

 

[Brian in Montana]

A few years ago I read about half of East of Eden while sitting in a ground blind. Great book but it's a big honker. I wouldn't recommend packing it a around. I always pack a paperback though and I tend to lean toward the classics or really weird science fiction. This year Its going to be 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez or Slade House by David Michell.

 

[Brian in Montana]

Same for me with Suttree, finally finishing during down time on an elk hunt. McCarthy's morbid free verse is like a sledge hit to the senses. Cormac disdains happy endings to say the least.

Blood Meridian is a must read IMO.

I'm done with Cormac McCarthy. What a bunch of overrated, gratuitous tripe.

 

[jtm307]

+1 for Desert Solitaire.

 

[Yellowstoner]

Lost in the Yellowstone: Truman Everts's "Thirty-Seven Days of Peril" - by Truman Everts. First hand account of being lost in the Yellowstone backcountry after getting separated from the Washburn Expedition in 1870. Short book (50ish pages) and makes for a really captivating read, even being of period writing.

 

[SFN2821]

A Walk in The Woods by Bill Bryson. Been years since I read this but I enjoyed it.

 

[Irrelevant]

A Walk in The Woods by Bill Bryson. Been years since I read this but I enjoyed it.

I preferred Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything (or something like that). It should be mandatory reading in middle/high school.

 

[ErictheRed]

Warpath and Jim Bridger by Stanely Vestal

 

[VikingsGuy]

3 good series set in MN -- Two by John Sandford, the "Prey" series and the "Virgil Flowers" series; and the William Kent Kruger ("Cork O'Connor" series).

 

[dirtclod Az.]

2nd John Sanford.Virgil Flowers series.

 

[TheGrayRider]

Into the Wild...Jon Krakauer

The Long Walk: A True Story of a Trek for Freedom... Slamovir Rawicz

Lord of the Flies...Sir William Golding

 

[Seaskihunt]

I will be (finally) finishing Blood Meridian on a float hunt next week. I've picked that book up and set it back down numerous times because I didn't think I was in the right frame of mind to read it cover to cover. Hoping 10 days in Alaska will fix that.

i just picked up a copy of Blood Meridian for a 10 hunt. I'll start it on the drive to the trailhead. I've heard its quite the tough read.

 

[MT_Chad]

I'm going to read ivan doig's bucking the sun while I'm on my hunt in the breaks this year. Seems fitting based on the setting and as a civil engineer fort peck dam has always fascinated me since I was a kid. I'm a real nerd at heart.