A great adventure painted vividly & honestly...........

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	• Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness Pete Fromm Picador, 2003 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 36 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I hope you like snow

Hard to find many faults with this book. It had about everything a guy could want. Life in the Bitterroot mountains, a good dog, a little hunting and trapping and fishing, and lots of snow. This is a well told story of the romantic and somewhat serendipitous transition of a Midwest college kid from the life of a dorm rat to the life of a mountain goat. He has a friend, Rader, who pops in from time to time, and his faithful dog Boone, but otherwise is pretty much a hermit. The author does a great job of describing both the beauty and hardship of solitary mountain life without over dramatizing either. It is an easy read, but not without some depth, but mostly it is just good "escapist non-fiction". Even though he admits the book came from an expansion of a series he had written for an outdoor magazine, it never has the feel of being "padded".

Just as an aside, even though there is a bit of hunting and trapping, it's hardly a blood fest. Outside of his grouse hunting he took it pretty easy on the wildlife population of Idaho. That aside, I think you'll enjoy the read.

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A great adventure painted vividly & honestly...........

Started this absorbing adventure when I arrived home from my work day (in the office) & finished 3 hours later. What a thrilling few hours it was too!.

The story starts as a young, immature college guy rather niavely (& foolishly) takes on a 7 month job in the wilds with no experience, knowledge, or realistic idea of how he will cope out of his comfort zone & what it takes to survive on his own during the harsh winter weather living in a tent.

It's surprisingly honest & revealing - most adventurers only recount the highlights & thrills (without exposing their fears & weaknesses).

Pete Fromm writes vividly & from the heart - it takes a courageous man to expose his inner thoughts & anxieties to his readers.

I found some of his descriptions of hunting/killing the wildlife a little graphic (so vegetarians beware), but towards the end of the book his growing maturity & awareness of nature & the lives of creatures in the wild, give me reason to believe he learnt to love & respect the wildlife (even if he still needed to hunt & trap to survive).

By the end of the book, his words come across as skillful as any seasoned writer & it was not surprising that he now has several books published.

I hope all who read this book enjoy it as much as I did....................

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Nice read

This was a great book..... read it over a trip to Hawaii....

If you are into camping or wilderness this is a great read... A great Escape!

Enjoyable reading...

I really enjoyed the tale of living it out in the wilds for a newbie outdoorsman. Very well written and really takes you into the backcountry to see how he adapted and strived to enjoy the atmosphere. Great job.

Good Stuff!!!

What outdoorsman has not dreamed of walking into the woods and living off the land? Fromm does a nice job in explaining what needs to be done to make my dream a reality...he also does a GREAT job in detailing the fact that I belong at home (in the city).

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Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm?s account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of adventure and a modern-day Walden, this contemporary classic established Fromm as one of the West?s premier voices.

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