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Pacific Northwest Hiking

60 Hikes Within 60 Miles Portland 3RD Edition
by Paul Gerald
Publisher Comments
The authoritative guide to Portland's best day hikes just got better -- updated maps, new hikes, new photos, and brand-new trailhead coordinates -- provided as UTM and latitude/longitude formats -- make this guide even more useful than before. The... (read more)
Your Price $16.95
New - Trade Paper

Sale Books

Hairwing Flies & Tube Flies for Salmon & Steelhead: A Comprehensive Guide for Anglers & Flytyers Hairwing Flies & Tube Flies for Salmon & Steelhead: A Comprehensive Guide for Anglers & Flytyers
by Chris Mann
Publisher Comments
The world's leading fly tiers have contributed their own unique flies and fly-tying advice to this guide to the most widely-used flies for salmon and steelhead. Chris Mann's remarkable computer graphics convey the flies with clinical precision and color... (read more)
Your Price $34.95
(New - Hardcover)

Used Books

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson
Publisher Comments
Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a... (read more)
Your Price $14.95
(Used - Trade Paper)

Mountaineering Literature

Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
Publisher Comments
The extraordinary bestselling true story of a young man's uncompromising pilgrimage that ended in tragedy.... (read more)
Your Price $5.95
Used - Trade Paper

General

Deep Survival : Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why (03 Edition)
by Laurence Gonzales
Publisher Comments
In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illuminate the mysteries of survival, whether in the wilderness or in meeting any of life's great challenges. This gripping narrative, the first book to describe the... (read more)
List Price $14.95
Your Price $8.00
Used - Trade Paper

Camping and Hiking

100 Hikes in Northwest Oregon & Southwest Washington (2006)
by William L. Sullivan
Publisher Comments
The Portland/Vancouver area's favorite guidebook has gotten even better, with a dozen new or dramatically changed hiking trails in the Mt. St. Helens, Columbia Gorge, and Mt. Hood areas. Now with campground and cabin rental info and a full-color... (read more)
Your Price $10.98
Sale - Trade Paper

Oregon Hiking

Portland Hill Walks: Twenty Explorations in Parks and Neighborhoods
by Laura O. Foster
Publisher Comments
Portland Hill Walks is no ordinary guidebook. No restaurant ratings, no rehashed explanations of how the city got its name. Instead, in twenty meandering, view-studded strolls from forested canyons to cityscape peaks, this lively travelogue answers... (read more)
Your Price $13.95
Used - Trade Paper

Stories and Essays

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
by Sam Keith
Publisher Comments
To live in a pristine land . . . roam the wilderness . . . build a home. . . . Thousands have had such dreams, but Richard Proenneke lived them. Here is a tribute to a man who carved his masterpiece out of the beyond.... (read more)
Your Price $7.95
Used - Trade Paper

Outdoor Cooking

Campfire Cuisine: Gourmet Recipes for the Great Outdoors
by Robin Donovan
Publisher Comments
Campers will wax rhapsodic about sleeping outdoors, breathing clean air, and communing with nature, all the while eating unhealthy, unsatisfying foods. "Campfire Cuisine" is here to ensure that you won't have to eat hot dogs and baked beans any longer.... (read more)
Your Price $7.95
Used - Flexible

Mountaineering

Into Thin Air : a Personal Account of the MT. Everest Disaster (97 Edition)
by Jon Krakauer
Publisher Comments
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed... (read more)
List Price $14.95
Your Price $8.00
Used - Trade Paper

Lore and Survival

Into the Wild (96 Edition)
by Jon Krakauer
Publisher Comments
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his... (read more)
List Price $13.95
Your Price $8.00
Used - Trade Paper

Kayak and Canoe

Canoe & Kayak Routes of NW Oregon 3RD Edition
by Phillip Jones
Book News Annotation
Clear line maps and some b&w photos supplement the thorough descriptions of 74 paddle routes (eight are new to this edition). This is a guide that's had time to mature as the first edition was published in 1982, under the title Canoe Routes: Northwest... (read more)
Your Price $11.50
Used - Trade Paper

Bestsellers

Wednesday November 19, 2008
60 Hikes Within 60 Miles Portland 3RD Edition
  1. 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles Portland 3RD Edition
    by Paul Gerald
  2. Forest Park Map
    by Gt 426s
  3. Into the Wild
    by Jon Krakauer
  4. Best Easy Day Hikes Portland Oregon 1ST Edition
    by Lizann Dunegan
  5. Hiking & Running Guide to Forest Park
    by Friends of Forest Park
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