When Boulder resident and environmental writer Catherine Dold’s nieces came to visit in 2008, she thought it would be fun to teach the inexperienced flatlanders some hiking tips.
The lofty—320 oversized pages and weighing the same as a small climbing rack—Stone Mountains: North America’s Best Crags (2011, Potlicker Press) by Jim Thornburg is the result of one man’s 20-year obsession with climbing and photography.