Malcolm Margolin
I got this book with a different thing in mind, thinking it would be about growing/harvesting on a smaller scale. It’s more maintenance, preventing erosion, trimming trees in a natural way. Good nonetheless. My family has a little cabin on a nice big parcel in central minnesota, I’ve always wanted to try my hand living up there for a time: this makes it seem all the more worthwhile.
Colin Fletcher & Chip Rawlins
A tome of backpacking knowledge, from what equipment is light enough yet functional enough to take with you on long trips living out of a backpack, to what to do when your living in the wild out of your pack.
Richard A. Coffey
A couple’s memoir from the first year they lived in a cabin in rural central Minnesota. The two lived in Minneapolis and pulled up their roots to move up to their weekend cabin. I was reading this looking for some insight in to how I might be able to pull the same thing off, and didn’t find much. Interesting read though – I couldn’t have finished it if it wasn’t.
I was just going to bunch this into the last link – but it deserves its own. A great look at Walden, easily my favorite book, with all the juicy quotes and analysis and paralells from Ken’s own life, I haven’t read it all yet but sure intend to.
I have to be sure to see the first episode of this NBC/Jeep Adventure Sports special – backcountry skiing and boarding at Jackson Hole!
Join Teton Gravity Research as they venture out of the boundary gates of Jackson Hole mountain resort with local pro skiers and snowboarders. Experience one of the greatest continuous vertical drops in North America, deep powder, amazing lines and backcountry kickers all under high avalanche danger.