Guide to the Colorado Mountains, 10th Edition compiles updated route descriptions for more than 1,500 hiking and climbing destinations-peaks, passes, lakes, and trails- from the expert trip leaders of the Colorado Mountain Club.

Labeled Images and Stories Behind the Names of the Mountains Surrounding Ouray, Colorado

Riders taking part in the San Juan Hut System's Telluride to Moab mountain-bike tour are in for an epic adventure. Over the course of seven heart-pumping days, you'll travel 201 miles, taking in such sights as the 14,000-foot, snowcapped peaks of the San Juans, the 100-mile-long Uncompahgre Plateau, the awe-inspiring canyons of the Dolores River Valley, and the rugged La Sal Mountains rising high above the red desert of Moab, Utah. This handy pocket-size guide provides cyclists with all the information necessary to take a self-guided tour or a fully supported hut-to-hut vacation along this famous trail system, including detailed route descriptions, accurate route maps, elevation profiles, and plenty of extra information about type of terrain, technical difficulty, and area history for each leg of the trip.

TELLURIDE TOP OF THE WORLD is the sequel to Tom Tatum's first novel FIJI 1970. In the late 1970s, Cooper Stuart has returned to his sprawling historic mountain family ranch near Telluride. His widowed mother is managing the ranch with ever increasing bank loans. In Telluride, the Ajax Ski Company is determined to rule its future. After a hundred years, the gold and silver mines are playing out. The Ajax Ski Company owner made a fortune in the postwar uranium boom near Telluride. Cooper's foray into Telluride takes him into the cocaine fueled ski and hot tub scene. Joe Bear Spirit, a Ute Indian Vietnam helicopter pilot and Indian Water Right's activist throws in with Cooper on the YBarC. Judy rides the range with Cooper on her champion barrel racing horse and Adrianna, descended from centuries of Spanish gold mining witches, also joins to help save the YBarC 's rangeland and water rights from the forces that would destroy one of the Americas' most remote and beautiful places. Pull on boot cut jeans, strap on spurs and lever a bullet into a saddle rifle for a Four Corners adventure centered in the smoldering stewpot of Telluride.

A true pioneer of the West, Harriet Backus writes about her amusing and often challenging experiences with heart felt emotion and vivid detail. New foreword by Pam Houston and afterword by author's grandson Rob Walton are featured.