Here are Colorado-based mountaineer Cameron M. Burns's funniest, finest, freshest takes on the people, places, and pursuits of the average American climber. Postcards From The Trailer Park is written in the grand tradition of climber-writers like Krakauer, Gillman, and Bonington. Burns mixes stories about climbing with straightforward reporting and witty, sometimes dark, personal commentary on what he calls "the most expensive and dangerous way to tear rotator cuffs and waste valuable time." Burns's mountain "oddventures" take the reader from an attempt on Aconcagua using a cheap Wal-Mart tent, to the invention of new equipment and the subsidiary sport of "hoopsticking" for the extremely soft rock of the New Mexico desert, to the fine art of spray-painting pitons for identification purposes. His profiles of fellow climbers describe Fred Beckey, David Brower, Galen Rowell, John Middendorf, Warren Hollinger, Pete Athans, Eric Weihenmayer, the Banditos climbing gang, and many others at their best, worst, and weirdest, both in the mountains and under Burns's own "screwily focused" spotlight. Read, laugh, and be entertained by one of the best mountaineering writers around.
- ISBN10 1592285406
- ISBN13 9781592285402
- Publish Date 1 September 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
- Imprint The Lyons Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 280
- Language English