When in Doubt, Go Higher: A Mountain Gazette Anthology [Paperback]

M. John Fayhee (Author), Tim Cahill (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2002

Mountain Gazette offered proof that "outdoor literature" need not be an oxymoron. Running a scant eight years, from 1972 to 1979, the magazine featured material by major writers and artists on outdoor and adventure subjects. This volume collects the best material ? nonfiction, fiction, photography, cartoons, and illustrations ? from the old and new Mountain Gazette. Selections include singer-songwriter Katie Lee?s "The Ride," a meditation on biking through town naked; "The Monkey Wrench Gang: A Review," by George Sibley; and Karen Recknagel's "Climbing the Walls in Berkeley." Other contributors include Edward Abbey, Galen Rowell, Steve Wishart, and Cindy Kleh.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Since 1972 Mountain Gazette magazine has been delighting, surprising, and offending readers with great essays, flippant features, outrageous opinion, and memorable short fiction on almost any subject even remotely connected with mountains. Mountain Gazette is partly literate and unashamedly dirt-bag, an eclectic mix that?s littered with wit and invention but sometimes as dark and cold as death on a high-altitude glacier.

You won?t love everything in this eclectic anthology, but we know that one or two of these pieces will stay with you for a long while. Pieces about climbing, backpacking, skiing, snowboarding, river-running, Pieces about drinking, road tripping, sex (several permutations), fly fishing, naked bike riding. Pieces about gear shops, saunas, trucks, the simple life, the complicated life, life and death.

Some of the writers you've heard of?like Charles Bowden (Black Orchid) and John Nichols (Milagro Beanfield War). Others you've not heard of because they published one outstanding piece in Mountain Gazette and then vanished, probably into some remote mountain range. A few published early work in Mountain Gazette and went on to write famous, memorable books?like Edward Abbey (The Monkey Wrench Gang), Ted Kerasote (Navigations) and David Roberts (Moments of Doubt).

Product Details

• Paperback: 355 pages
• Publisher: Mountain Sports Pr (May 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967674794
• ISBN-13: 978-0967674797
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,616,530 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

M. John Fayhee is the author of "Mexico's Copper Canyon Country," "Up At Altitude: A Celebration of Life in the High Country," "Along the Colorado Trail," "Along the Arizona Trail," "Along Colorado's Continental Divide Trail" and "A Colorado Winter." He also contributed to "Comeback Wolves" and "When in Doubt Go Higher: A Mountain Gazette Anthology." His next book, "Bottoms Up: M. John Fayhee's Greatest Hits from the Mountain Gazette," will be published in June 2010 by Round Mountain Publishing. His "Colorado Mountain Companion," will be published by Round Mountain in autumn 2010.
Fayhee was a contributing editor at Backpacker magazine for more than 10 years. In 2000, along with two partners, Fayhee helped re-launch the iconic Mountain Gazette, where he is still indentured as an editor. He splits his time between New Mexico's Gila Country and the Colorado High Country, where, despite his increasing decrepitude, he still gets out into the woods almost every day.