On Mount Hood

A Biography of Oregon's Perilous Peak

von Jon Bell

224 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

On Mount Hood is a contemporary, first-person narrative biography of Oregon's greatest mountain, featuring stories full of adventure and tragedy, history and geology, people and places, trivia and lore. The mountain itself helps create the notorious Oregon rains and deep alpine snows, and paved the way for snowboarding in the mid 1980s. Its forests provide some of the purest drinking water in the world, and its snowy peak captures the attention of the nation almost every time it wreaks fatal havoc on climbers seeking the summit. On Mount Hood builds a compelling story of a legendary mountain and its impact on the people who live in its shadow, and includes interviews with a forest activist, a volcanologist, and a para-rescue jumper. Jon Bell has been writing from his home base in Oregon since the late 1990s. His work has appeared in Backpacker, The Oregonian, The Rowing News, Oregon Coast, and many other publications. He lives in Lake Oswego, OR.

• Themen: Geowissenschaften, Geographie, Umwelt, Planung Geographie Physische Geographie und Topographie Berge und Hochland
• ISBN: 9781570618581
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.04.2013
• Größe: 206 x 132 mm
• Verlag: Blue Star Press