ASIN: B0053NZDRY
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 189
In this collection of essays, stories, and tall tales, Mac Griffith relays the news from the Colorado high country, news of local lives lived out over many years, sometimes with hilarity and sometimes with grievous loss. In the title story, he climbs a high peak with his sister as she continues to hike in the fresh shadow of her son’s death. In other news, a retired woman named Etta runs the trails and fires rocks at slob campers to help them learn better behavior. In these mountain stories, there are devils in machines, a grouse family trying to stay together, and a cat with a sensible life. Stories full of wonder at life lived in thin air. Griffith tunes his ear to the land’s own song.Griffith also finds humor in some odd places, including hummingbirds that have lost interest in flowers, the theory of deep cleaning, and scientific advances in getting undressed. On his first mountain ...
