Mad Dog Mountain [Paperback]

Richard Day (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2004

Mad Dog Mountain is a work of fiction that presents backcountry skiing and the all-mountain experience wrapped in a love story, a soul journey and an outdoor adventure. Mad Dog Mountain follows the epic river tale of Two Dog River in a series. The passions of outdoor beauty and adventure beckon and lead onward, this time in the wild snows on telemark skis. Mad Dog Mountain captures the essence of backcountry skiing. Through deep powder and into breathtaking mountain mysticism, the reader becomes lost and then found as body and soul, spirit and being enter into a tale which never loosens it grip on the imagination. Mad Dog Mountain is at once a love story, both human and Divine, an adventure and a tale of courage and surrender. Mad Dog Mountain is the torch that burns in the heart of everyone who opens to the Creator and His awesome creation. Mad Dog Mountain is both the horizon and a coming home.

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About the Author

Richard Day is a 30 year veteran of the outdoors. He has been active in the pursuits of backpacking, rock climbing, mountaineering, whitewater kayaking and backcountry telemark skiing. His doctorate in psychology and interest in men’s issues and theology have led Richard to deeply penetrate the essence of the wild outdoors—especially the heart and soul of backcountry telemark skiing—and where Truth is sought. His previous novel, Two Dog River, is considered a cult classic of whitewater fiction and men’s literature. Richard Day’s unusual talent as a writer continues to delight and inspire.

Product Details

• Paperback: 252 pages
• Publisher: Sutton Publishing (June 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966465911
• ISBN-13: 978-0966465914
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,439,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Top of the World Thrills, and a Great Love Story!!!, May 12, 2005

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Barry Fitzsimmons (New York City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mad Dog Mountain (Paperback)

Mad Dog Mountain is where the real men, and women, go. You and I do not know these people--skiers and mountaineers who fly under the radar of society. They are subsistence-living thrill-seekers who feed on adrenaline, and their faith in God. Chair-lifts are for wussies. Double-black diamonds are just there for warm ups. Off-piste? Off course! Hard-training, high-altitude types like Nancy, Jimmy, Butch and Princess Ra, to name a few, pay a high price to "free the heel" and feed their Jones. Some pay the ultimate price.

So, what happens when a pair of these young tele-heads (she: a snow bunny on steriods--the legal kind; he: a too-handsome Richie-Rich radical) discover, among the chaos and excitement of near-vertical Grand Teton thrills, their hearts connecting, and realize, perhaps too late, that they are soul mates? If the answer's not at the peak, then it may lay at the bottom of that mountain--and, man, there's only one way down.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Mountain... or world. Can you out-ski an avalanche?

...can you out-ski God?

Try "Mad Dog Mountain."

Author's note:
How can I be the first to review Richard Day's mountain opus, with all of the tele-heads out there who are actually accomplishing these astonishing feats of vertical derring do, and surviving? I thought backcountry brothers supported each other. C'mon, dudes!