Hotoven wrote:

spiritualspatula wrote:Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey.

I hate this book, sorry spiritualspatula!

All Abbey does is bitch about humans who aren't just like him. He talks about getting out and being alone and different then people, but hates on those who do the drive threw of National parks instead of trekking 20 miles into the hills to really get the experience. To me he obviously has some pride issues and doesn't like most people. He writes them off before he knows them.

Quite true, and he admits just as much of himself. Whoever said you have to agree with something to read it? There's something to be said, reading about a crazy old man bitching about living in a little hut in the middle of the desert when I'm bunkered down in the mountains solo waiting for the weather to break.
I'd also wholeheartedly recommend Beyond The Hundredth Meridian by Wallace Stegner. It's about Powell's trip down the Colorado and his later influence (or attempt to influence) western policy. It's pertinent reading for anybody living in the west, and Powell is a grade A badass. It's about adventure into the unknown and the consequences of opening up the unknown to the nation.

welle wrote:

zodis wrote:Weight is no longer a factor if you can bear an extra 10.2 oz., the weight of a Kindle 2 Wireless Reading Device. It can hold about 1,500 books. Wireless connectivity is only necessary for downloading books, not for reading books you have already downloaded.

the battery will be dead within 1st hour in freezing temps!

I've had my Kindle outside for 2 days in single digit to teens temperatures and the batteries were fine.