Fellow ETS'ers,

I have been writing some book reviews on some of my favorite outdoor books. I, of course, think these are quite excellent <img src="images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> and hope that they can serve as an introduction to some excellent reading. All are over at the Outdoors-Magazine and I will shamelessly add the links here. There are many other articles of review there and I will plug them also. I am a moderator there, it is not a commercial enterprise, just a good place.

Calvin Rutstrum, an outdoorsman and one of my favorite authors. 15+ incredible wilderness operations and essay type books. This is a very long review but has some good quotes etc that can give a real flavor of the man and his ideas. Old style wilderness operations but timeless.

Calvin Rutstrum, His Published Works
http://outdoors-magazine.com/s_article.php?id_article=128

Contemporaries of Rutstrum's winter style are Garrett and Alexandra Conover. There more recent winter operations manual is a perfect companion to Rutstrum's earlier works.

Winter Wilderness Companion
http://outdoors-magazine.com/s_article.php?id_article=129

RM Patterson wrote Dangerous River a book about 2 seasons in the Nahanni river area (Canada). This is my favorite book combining wilderness operations of the time (1929) with great story telling. Highly recommended and again timeless.

Dangerous River
http://outdoors-magazine.com/s_article.php?id_article=131

He also wrote 4 other books about northern British Columbia and Alberta that are also worth reading, not as much for wilderness operations but just pleasure.

RM Patterson's Life Works
http://outdoors-magazine.com/s_article.php?id_article=135

Cache Lake Country by John Rowlands is another excellent read combining wilderness living with wilderness projects. I had this one in the rotating library until I decided to gift it. I highly recommend this one.

Cache Lake Country
http://outdoors-magazine.com/s_article.php?id_article=133

Elliott Merrick's True North is another excellent read with some skill building attributes.

True North
http://outdoors-magazine.com/s_article.php?id_article=134

I hope that some of these reviews spark some interest in these authors. While in many ways there works can seem dated in this time of modern stuff, they really have some solid woodsmanship that is applicable to todays times.