Newly released book

[Maria]

Sounds like a variation on Walk in the Woods, but the interview (link below) is thoughtful.

May 25, 2009 | Some midlife crises involve a fast car, others an affair. Facing middle age, writer Mark Obmascik decided to hike, climb and scramble up all the Colorado mountain peaks over 14,000 feet that he hadn't already summited as a much younger man.

When he embarked on this high-altitude escapade, Obmascik was hardly a bionic exercise bunny in search of his next adrenaline rush. Out-of-shape and a junk-food junkie, he had traded working at the Denver Post, where he won a Pulitzer Prize, for the life of a write-at-home dad. His typical daily workout routine consisted of wrestling his 3-year-old son into a car seat.

In his new book "Halfway to Heaven: My White-Knuckled -- and Knuckleheaded -- Quest for the Rocky Mountain High," Obmascik relays his misadventures training for and scaling Colorado's "14ers." He hit the trails in earnest one Memorial Day, and summited 45 peaks in a single summer.
Interview here:
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/05/25/halfway_heaven/

 

[jniehof]

Sounds like a variation on Walk in the Woods

Except he actually did it
He's a 14ers.com member and there's been a lot of talk over there, mostly positive. Several 14ers.com folks wound up in the book, too.

 

[dentonfabrics]

Except he actually did it

Ha! Good call! Sounds like an interesting read.

 

[una_dogger]

Thanks for the recommendation. Now that's what I call a productive summer! Envious!