Good writing

[Irrelevant]

I suppose it could be outdoor related. Or not. Much like @Nameless Range link to "The Ledge", just a running list of good essays or stories.

If you're browsing the innerwebs and find something cool, that strikes your, that connects, link it below.

Unlocking Secrets: Finding Unexpected Discoveries on My Father’s Favorite Trail

Randy Udall was most at peace in the wilderness. After he died on a solo backpacking trip, his daughter took up his tradition of hiking to a secret place in Wyoming’s Wind River Range, where she was surprised by what she found.

www.outsideonline.com

 

[Irrelevant]

So I thought about this a bit more during the 8 hrs of my life recently spent on a plane.

Here are my top short stories:
1. Short Happy Life of Francis McComber - Hemingway https://faculty.washington.edu/jdb/303/Hemingway/The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.pdf
2. A River Runs Through It - Maclean https://sembawangtutor.files.wordpr...rough-it-and-other-stories-maclean-norman.pdf
2b. if RRTI is too long, then I'd swap in Logging and Pimping and "Your Pal, Jim".
3. Legends of the Fall - Harrison
4. Cowboy - McGuane https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/09/19/cowboy-2
5. Big Two Hearted River - Hemingway https://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/hem_river.html

What else you guys got? I feel like there's at least one great one in Peterson's collection A Hunter's Heart, but I'm drawing a blank.

 

[2rocky]

Jack London. To Build a Fire.... as well as dozens other....

To Build A Fire by Jack London

learningenglish.voanews.com

 

[Irrelevant]

Only cool if you're into homesteads and apples.

On the Hunt for America’s Forgotten Apples

Apples no one has ever tasted are still out in the wild. Dave Benscoter, a retired FBI agent, has spent a decade searching for these 100-year-old heirlooms.

www.outsideonline.com

 

[Salmonchaser]

Jack London. To Build a Fire.... as well as dozens other....

To Build A Fire by Jack London

learningenglish.voanews.com

I’ve enjoyed most of Hemingway, Norman Maclean. I was six when Dad and I worked our way through Londons epic saga. There were lessons there in the late 50’s early 60s for a kid given to wandering into the woods near Fairbanks.
It was well below zero the night we finished the book. In the morning we grabbed our snowshoes and headed into the woods along the Chena river to build a fire.
Every year while elk hunting I still build a fire, mostly just for practice.

 

[noharleyyet]

I need to read John Treadwell Nichols indelible New Mexico Trilogy again and confirm, but, The milagro Beanfield War, The Magic Journey, and The Nirvana Blues.

 

[Irrelevant]

I need to read John Treadwell Nichols indelible New Mexico Trilogy again and confirm, but, The milagro Beanfield War, The Magic Journey, and The Nirvana Blues.

interesting, never heard of them, but the wiki page makes it sound intriguing.

 

[noharleyyet]

interesting, never heard of them, but the wiki page makes it sound intriguing.

neffa, it could be that I've spent a lot of time in the Taos area since the early 70's...prolly skewed my objectivity. Could be that it's not as much masterful prose as relateable 'yea, I can see totally see that happening'. A simple story about cultural, societal, and poltical collision.

Another, profound to me, is Updike's 'Rabbit, Run'

 

[Irrelevant]

Another, profound to me, is Updike's 'Rabbit, Run'

That was a series correct? and they all (or at least several) won Pulitzers? They're on my list.

 

[BackofBeyond]

The milagro Beanfield War

There's a copy of this on my shelf that has been passed around my family for years. Great story.

 

[noharleyyet]

That was a series correct? and they all (or at least several) won Pulitzers? They're on my list.

Yes, Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is the protagonist.

 

[longbow51]

Nichols is another who tends toward the depressed side. The Sterile Cuckoo is excellent nevertheless, as is the New Mexico Trilogy. And, in the movie adaptation, Liza Minelli was a great Pookie Adams.

 

[Irrelevant]

I'd looked for the origins of Ed Abbey famous speech, where he concludes that "you'll outlive the bastards." WIKI erroneously claims it to be published in this issue of HCN.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/hcn-media/archive-pdf/1976_09_24.pdf

Though it is still a stellar read itself. Anyone have a link to "it"?

 

[noharleyyet]

Prolly doesn't answer your query neff...but it is a cool quote. I will confess as a younger man roaming Northern New Mexico I was intrigued by the possibility of meeting a Bonnie Abbzug...maybe got close a few times.

Outlive the Bastards - Alastair Humphreys

I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators.

alastairhumphreys.com

 

[Irrelevant]

Prolly doesn't answer your query neff...but it is a cool quote. I will confess as a younger man roaming Northern New Mexico I was intrigued by the possibility of meeting a Bonnie Abbzug...maybe got close a few times.

Outlive the Bastards - Alastair Humphreys

I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators.

alastairhumphreys.com

it is a good quote, which is why I'm interested in reading the rest of it. I swear I have somewhere in the past, I just can't find it anymore.

 

[Elky Welky]

@neffa3 based on your reading list above, I think we have similar tastes. If you've never read the short story "Her First Elk" by Rick Bass, I highly recommend it.

 

[BrentD]

interesting, never heard of them, but the wiki page makes it sound intriguing.

The first is, by far, the best. Avoid, at all costs, the film that Robert Redford made from it.

 

[Irrelevant]

@neffa3 based on your reading list above, I think we have similar tastes. If you've never read the short story "Her First Elk" by Rick Bass, I highly recommend it.

Her First Elk

The noonday sun was mild, almost warm now. The scavenger birds—magpies, ravens, Steller’s jays and gray jays— danced and hopped nearby, swarming and fluttering, and from time to time as Ralph or Bruce took a rest, one of the men would toss a scrap of gristle or fascia into the...

www.theparisreview.org

 

[Irrelevant]

» Director’s Cut: ‘The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,’ by Hunter S. Thompson

grantland.com

 

[noharleyyet]

» Director’s Cut: ‘The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,’ by Hunter S. Thompson

grantland.com

Have read....will again later this evening. One of my favorite batchit crazy bastages HST