Adventures of a Nature Guide
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164
1920
English
- Dedication and Preface
- Snow-Blinded on the Summit
- Waiting in the Wilderness
- Winter Mountaineering
- Trees at Timberline
- Wind-Rapids on the Heights
- The Artic Zone of High Mountains
- Naturalist Meets Prospector
- The White Cyclone
- Lightening and Thunder
- Landmarks
- Children of My Trail School
- A Day With a Nature Guide
- Play and Pranks of Wild Folk
- Censored Natural History News
- Harriet--Little Mountain Climber
- The Evolution of Nature Guiding
- The Development of a Woman Guide
Enos Mills (1870-1922 ), naturalist and conservationist, was instrumental in the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park. Like his mentor John Muir, Mills was an intrepid solitary high country rambler, as well as an accomplished Colorado mountain guide. There are mountain tales aplenty in "Adventures of a Nature Guide." At one point, Mills climbs Long's Peak alone in a gale with winds topping 170 mph., "carried away with the wild, elemental eloquence of the storm." Near the summit, the wind is so fierce he cannot make headway, so he concludes to "reverse ends." "Putting a shoulder against a rock point, I allowed the wind to push my legs around. This . . . enabled me to brace effectively with my feet, and also to hang on more securely with my hands. . . There was no climbing; the wind sucked, dragged, pushed, and floated me ever upward." Summary by Sue Anderson.
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