This simple to use trail guide gives you 52 awesome hikes around the Olympic National Park and the Olympic Peninsula. With detailed trail descriptions, color images (yes, they are in color ) and tips for hiking each trail, this is your ultimate guide to perfect weekend getaways. From family hikes to full-day leg burners, there are trails for all levels of hikers. With directions to the trailhead, even the most novice of hikers can explore the beauty and wilderness of the Olympic Peninsula Not a hiker? This book also gives you some of the most memorable images from around the rainforests,...
This simple to use trail guide gives you 52 awesome hikes around the Olympic National Park and the Olympic Peninsula. With detailed trail descriptions...
Our annual guide to the extraordinary outdoors of the Pacific Northwest. The Summit Book 2016 serves as our mile marker. Our annual celebration of the one of the greatest places on this planet.The Outdoor Society strives to help define and explain outdoor culture in the Pacific Northwest through our experiences in and around the wilderness areas we call home. We love this place and we know you do too. We know that for nearly everyone that lives here, there is no greater place on earth and nowhere else we would rather be. This is the land of mountains, glaciers, rivers and salmon. This is the...
Our annual guide to the extraordinary outdoors of the Pacific Northwest. The Summit Book 2016 serves as our mile marker. Our annual celebration of the...
An unexpectedly raucous and illuminating memoir set in a Southern California public library. For most of us, librarians are the quiet people behind the desk, who, apart from the occasional "shush," vanish into the background. But in Quiet, Please, McSweeney's contributor Scott Douglas puts the quirky caretakers of our literature front and center. With a keen eye for the absurd and a Kesey-esque cast of characters (witness the librarian who is sure Thomas Pynchon is Julia Roberts's latest flame), Douglas takes us where few readers have gone before. Punctuated by his own highly subjective...
An unexpectedly raucous and illuminating memoir set in a Southern California public library. For most of us, librarians are the quiet people behind...
A blog started the forever war--a global war set in the not so distant future between two groups (the Rebels and the Coco's).
Dylan Austin has grown up with the war being a constant background to his life; his dad has just returned from war missing a leg; his older sister is missing and presumed dead from the war; and all through school war has been embedded into everything they teach. Teens have been raised on educational war video games, and their minds are polluted with the idea that war is just a game.
Unlike most kids Dylan's age, he does not eagerly await...
A blog started the forever war--a global war set in the not so distant future between two groups (the Rebels and the Coco's).