Books We Love

Girl On the Rocks

Girl on the Rocks: A Woman's Guide to Climbing with Strength, Grace, and Courage By Katie Brown Our friend and international rock climbing superstar Katie Brown has published a book designed to teach and inspire women and girls who are new to the sport of rock climbing, want to delve more deeply into it, or are just curious about climbing but may be intimidated. It covers topics from the very specific physical side of the sport, to the more mental and psychological challenges that climbing presents.  Katie's humor ...

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy completely mesmerizes with his dark and laconic prose in All the Pretty Horses.  Although this book takes place in Texas and Mexico in 1948, it captures the beauty, paucity, and unforgiving nature of life at the hands of wildness and almost eerily applies to any time when you feel a horse under you.  Don’t be surprised if you can’t put this book down, as McCarthy gasps imagination and harshness into a vivid landscape and cast of characters.  Available here.

Music We Love

New Music: Feathership

The music that comes out of Montreal rarely disappoints, including: Arcade Fire, the Dears, Sam Roberts, the Stills or Wolf Parade.  With the debut of the EP, new band Feathership joins this impressive group.  Whilst this quintet is decisively closer to alternative-folk than the aforementioned indie-rock bands, Feathership’s music blends in enough colour to its fundamentally folksy sound to soon move from off the radar to the charts. The band which started as a casual project between members of already well established Montreal-based groups has since taken a sharp turn as the release ...

Tunes from Dave Steward

The first time I heard Dave Steward sing I was overlooking the miles of endless canyon country in the heart of Canyonlands National Park.  As the Green River pushed on to its deeper destiny and convergence with the Colorado River below, Dave crooned the sweetest, saddest, loveliest Western tune I had ever heard.   Finally, Dave has released a CD: Wild West Heart.  Gary Cox, who has been the ranger in the incredibly remote Maze district of Canyonlands for the past 21 years, partnered with Dave on the lyrics to create a ...

Stuff We Love

Sheet Dreams

This was originally posted by our friends at Gracefuledge.com, and is re-posted here with their permission. How does one get upgraded to first class for free? Will I get lucky by kissing the Blarney Stone? Who else has slept here? Just some of a globetrotter’s mysteries. And while sometimes it pays to seek out the truth, other times…oblivion is blissful. Like when you rest your travel-weary body in your personal set of travel sheets. Made from soothing fabrics like silk, Egyptian cotton, or SeaCell, a super ...

More Poetry for the Adventurer….

Wander-thirst by Gerard Gould Beyond the east the sunrise; Beyond the west the sea And East and West the Wander-Thirst that will not let me be; It works in me like madness to bid me say goodbye, For the seas call, and the stars call, and oh! The call of the sky! I know not where the white road runs, nor what the blue hills are, But a man can have the sun for friend, and for his guide, a star; And there's no end to voyaging when once the voice is heard, For the rivers call, and the road calls, ...