The High Sierra a love story

"Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encounter a changed man, awed by a landscape that made him feel as if he were simultaneously strolling through an art museum and scrambling on a jungle gym like an energized child....

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Main Author: Robinson, Kim Stanley (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • My Sierra life (1): Not to touch the earth
  • Geology (1): Batholith and Pluton
  • My Sierra life (2): Break on through
  • Sierra people (1): The first people
  • My Sierra life (3): Artists in the back country
  • Geology (2): Basins
  • My Sierra life (4): How we met
  • Sierra people (2): John Muir
  • My Sierra life (5): the Pinball years
  • Geology (3): Crests and divides; also Psychogeology (1): Outside and inside
  • Snow camping (1): Freezing our butts
  • Sierra people (3): Clarence King
  • Names (1): the Good
  • Snow camping (2): Close to the edge
  • Moments of being (1): A Sierra day: Morning in camp
  • My Sierra life (6): Crossing Mather Pass
  • Sierra people (4): Mary Austin
  • Psychogeology (2): Altitude and foreshortening
  • Sierra people (5): Mapping the territory
  • Geology (4): Fellfields
  • Sierra people (6): Common neighbors
  • Moments of being (2): A Sierra day: Rambling and scrambling
  • My Sierra life (7): Owls in the blue
  • Sierra people (7): The Sierra Club's women
  • Sierra people (8): the Fresno crowd
  • Routes (1): the Four bad passes
  • Moments of being (3): A Sierra day: Sunset and twilight
  • My Sierra life (8): Robbie you're wasting your precious youth
  • The Swiss Alps (1): Kistenpass
  • Snow Camping (3): the Transantarctics
  • Sierra people (9): Norman Clyde
  • Names (2): the Bad
  • Routes (2): the Six good passes
  • Geology (5): Canyons and massifs
  • Moments of being (4): A Sierra day: Night in camp
  • Routes (3) Some West-side entries
  • My Sierra life (9) Gear talk
  • The Swiss Alps (2): My ascent of the Matterhorn
  • My Sierra Life (10): Return to the Sierra
  • Moments of being (5): Close calls
  • Routes (4): Desolation
  • Moments of being (6): A Sierra day: Under the tarp
  • My Sierra life (11): Heart trouble
  • Names (3): the Ugly
  • Sierra people (10): Tree line artists
  • Geology (6): Roof pendants
  • Sierra people (11): Fish and frogs
  • My Sierra life (12): This is the end
  • Sierra people (12): Reclusive neighbors
  • Sierra people (13): the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep
  • Sierra people (14): What didn't get built; and Trail phantoms
  • Routes (5) Basins have characters
  • Snow camping (4): Extreme housekeeping
  • Sierra people (15): Gary Snyder
  • Names (4): Naming Mount Thoreau
  • Sierra people (16): Michael Blumlein
  • Moments of being (7): Late desolation
  • The Swiss Alps (3): Seeing Meru
  • Routes (6): the High route
  • Moments of being (8): the Monsoon gets stronger
  • Moments of being (9): Hetch Hetchy restored
  • Sierra people (17): Young people in love
  • My Sierra life (13): Still getting lost
  • Names (5): corrections and additions
  • Sierra people (18): We had a good shaman
  • Moments of being (10): How big the world becomes in a wind
  • Moments of being (11): Have I mentioned how much I like the Fall colors up here?
  • My Sierra life (14): For wilderness
  • Moments of being (12): the Thicket.