Lou’s News #24 – Book Events & Memoir Playlist
Hi All,
Our recent Neptune Mountaineering (Boulder, Colorado) book signing was a blast. Full house, and Sam Bass was the perfect conversation partner.
Just a few events to go, see below.
In other bookie news, The-High-Route dot com just dropped an excellent podcast featuring yours truly. The convo ranges from writing craft to innovative caffeination. Check it out here.
________________________________________________
As to adventure memoirs, one of my inspirations is Barry Blanchard’s The Calling – A Life Rocked by Mountains. Along with Blanchard’s wood-cut chapter title graphics and prolific illustrations (not to mention his brutally honest story), I’ve always loved his included playlist.
With that in mind, I realized that my memoir, Avalanche Dreams, needs a tune list as well. And while I’m at it, how about a compilation of “works cited”?
Here you go (all in no particular order, and yes, most is yesteryear, yet often timeless):
AVALANCHE DREAMS – PLAYLIST
Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
Beatles – Getting Better
Led Zeppelin – Good Times Bad Times
Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
The Cream – Crossroads
Beatles – Helter Skelter
Steppenwolf – Born to be Wild
Traditional – 90 Pounds of Rucksack (Various versions available online)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Love or Confusion
America the Beautiful
Quirino Mendoza et. al. – Cielito Lindo
________________________________________________
WORKS CONSULTED, MENTIONED, OR ALLUDED TO
Banner in the Sky, James Ramsey Ullman
And Not to Yield, James Ramsey Ullman
The Mountain World 1955, Malcolm Barnes, editor
Zen Macrobiotic Cooking, Michel Abehsera
Betty Crocker Lost Recipes, Betty Crocker
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, Benjamin Spock (1st and 2nd editions)
Logan’s Run, William F. Nolan
Dune, Frank Herbert
The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton
The Snowy Torrents, Alta Avalanche Center, 1967
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
My Camera in Yosemite Valley, Ansel Adams
RayJardine.com (website)
The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale
A Worthy Expedition (NOLS history), Kate Dernocoeur
On Belay: The Life of Legendary Mountaineer Paul Petzoldt, Raye Ringholz
Wild Snow (book), Louis Dawson
WildSnow.com (website)
The Winter Army, Maurice Isserman
Holy Bible, New International Version
Colorado High Routes, Louis Dawson
Field Book – Wind River Range 1968, Bonney & Bonney
The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer
Summits & Icefields, Chic Scott
Blizzard of Aahhh’s (film), directed by Greg Stump
A Climbing Guide to Colorado’s Fourteeners, Borneman & Lampert
Fall Line (1981, movie)
The Rainmaker, John Grisham
Vertigo Games, Glenn Randall
Dawson’s Guide to Colorado’s Fourteeners (Vol. 1 & 2)
The Hall of the Mountain King, H. H. Snyder
Various works, H.P. Lovecraft
Climber’s Guide to Yosemite Valley, 1971, Steve Roper
Couloir magazine, all volumes
Climbing magazine, all volumes
It’s got its Ups and Downs, Sports Illustrated magazine, 1981
Camp Hale Ski-Zette, March 1944 (newspaper)
_________________________________
Coming events:
Aspen Historical Society; on October 4th. Historical event info
Backcountry symposium happening here in the Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado. All day October 5. I’ll be participating in a conversation presentation with Chris Davenport, as the closing keynote. Symposium info
And, just before Christmas we’re going ultra-local with a talk and signing at our library here in Carbondale, Colorado. Last minute gifts galore! That’s on tap for December 11th, with conversation partner Cindy Hirschfeld, former Editor-in-Chief, Cross Country Skier.
