Title: Rocky Mountain National Park Dining Room Girl
Summary:
Rocky Mountain National Park was just over 10 years old that rainy summer when a young woman from Fayette, Iowa, newly graduated from college with a degree in speech and English and a thirst for adventure, traveled across the country by train to work as a dining room girl at the Horseshoe Inn.
This was the heyday of the romantic and majestic Horseshoe Inn, a rustic but genteel lodge situated in a grand meadow framed by towering peaks. Five years later, in 1931, the Horseshoe Inn was the first of the park’s lodges to disappear in the effort to bring the park back to its natural state.
Eleanor Parker wrote home almost every day, and her mother carefully transcribed her daughter’s letters into a school composition book that was passed down through her family and recently discovered. Her letters are the basis of this lively account of the young adventurer’s first summer away from home, a summer filled with hikes, moonlight horseback rides, dancing in the casinos, and sight-seeing automobile drives.
Includes historic photographs and maps of her hikes and rides, many to the long-gone historic park lodges and all to landmarks and sights familiar to today’s park visitors.
Title: Ski Touring Routes
Summary:
- 95+ routes ranging from easy to challenging
- Full-color photos and topo maps
- Introduction to gear and avalanche safety
