[at-l] "No Place I'd Rather Be..."

[Mara Factor]

I normally just post my book reviews on my web site but this book seemed 
like a fun book to share with the A.T. crowd:

I just finished perusing "No Place I'd Rather Be, Wit and Wisdom from 
Adirondack Lean-to Journals" by Stuart F. Mesinger c. 2006.

While not compiled from A.T. registers and as Mesinger says, they "don't 
display the quirky mind-set of the long-distance hiker," the register 
entries in the book cover many of the same topics found in A.T. registers.  
For those of us who haven't placed a register in an A.T. lean-to and had it 
returned to us full if wit and wisdom, this book gives us some gems from the 
Adirondacks organized along the lines of many topics familiar to any 
backcountry lean-to user:  Weather; Privies; Tall tales; Bugs; etc.

While many of the entries will seem familiar, there are situations 
documented in this book that generally are not found on the AT such as those 
that paddle into the backcountry, are hunting, or those that claim 
backcountry campsites and/or lean-tos for themselves (frequently possible 
because many Adirondack sites have multiple lean-tos, etc.)

This book was quick, easy, and fun to read.  Or, it would make great privy 
reading.

Mara
Stitches, AT99

P.S.  My other book reviews including eight books related to the A.T. can be 
found at: http://friends.backcountry.net/m_factor/bookreviews.html  -MF
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