Rocky Mountain National Park: Peril on Longs Peak

Rocky Mountain National Park: Peril on Longs Peak
Author: Mike Graf
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2012-03-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0762784121

Each book in the Adventures with the Parkers series for kids 8-13 takes the Parker family to a popular national park and is packed with adventure as well as interesting facts about park activities, natural history, outdoor safety, and much more. All books have been vetted and approved by park officials and park associations. Each book includes color illustrations and photographs.

Rocky Mountain National Park

Rocky Mountain National Park
Author: Mike Graf
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2010-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1458782859

In the seventh book in the Adventures with the Parkers series' join the Parkers as they head to Colorado to visit the stunning high peaks and tundra of Rocky Mountain National Park. When the snow clears midsummer' the park's many famous sites are on display; Trail Ridge Road - the highest - elevation highway in the United States' spectacular wildflowers' elk and raptors' streams and waterfalls' and the unique alpine tundra of the high meadows. The family's big adventure? A hike up Longs Peak' a Colorado fourteener at 14'255 feet. But frequent afternoon thundershowers and hailstorms pelt the family during their training hikes' and the Parkers start to question the wisdom of a nighttime ascent of the summit. Will injuries' exhaustion' and dangerous weather take their toll on the family?

Yellowstone National Park: Eye of the Grizzly

Yellowstone National Park: Eye of the Grizzly
Author: Mike Graf
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2012-03-20
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0762784083

Dear Diary, Guess what? We’re sitting with hundreds of people waiting for the world’s most famous geyser, Old Faithful, to erupt. I can’t wait to see it . . . Join the Parkers, an intrepid family of four, as they explore the wonders of America’s first national park, Yellowstone. Twins Morgan and James marvel over the geysers, thermal pools, and vast array of wildlife. But when they come face to face with a grizzly, what will they do? Each book in the exciting Adventures with the Parkers series for kids 8–13 explores a popular national park and is packed with adventure as well as engaging and educational facts about nature, outdoor safety, and much more. Vacation has never been this fun! Books in the Adventures with the Parkers Series: Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks: Danger in the Narrows Glacier National Park: Going to the Sun Grand Canyon National Park: Tail of the Scorpion Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Ridge Runner Rescue Mount Rushmore, Badlands, Wind Cave: Going Underground Olympic National Park: Touch of the Tide Pool, Crack of the Glacier Rocky Mountain National Park: Peril on Longs Peak Yellowstone National Park: Eye of the Grizzly Yosemite National Park: Harrowing Ascent of Half Dome

Death in Rocky Mountain National Park

Death in Rocky Mountain National Park
Author: Randi Minetor
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2020-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1493038796

Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park welcomes more than 4 million visitors every year, but this jewel of America’s parks has seen more than its fair share of deaths among its tourists. More than 70 people have perished attempting to climb Longs Peak, the park’s tallest mountain—some of whom vanished into the wilderness, never to be found. Thousand-foot falls from high rock ledges, hypothermia, avalanches that bury climbers, lightning strikes, a historic flood, and even plane crashes are among the ways that park visitors have met a bad end. Author Randi Minetor also provides tips for staying alive and safe in the Rocky Mountains.

Climb/h

Climb/h
Author: Bob Godfrey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2019-04-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429726945

This book is a collection of rock climbing experiences which captures the essence, the challenge, and the spirit of the sport at its best. It describes the historical interplay between events and personalities in Colorado rock climbing, and shows how the concept of the impossible was redefined.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Ridge Runner Rescue

Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Ridge Runner Rescue
Author: Mike Graf
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2012-03-20
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0762784105

This is Max Davis reporting from the Great Smoky Mountains. It’s the summer of 1940 . . . The Parkers, an intrepid family of four, are back for another exciting adventure, this time at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. With their great-grandfather’s journal as their guide, ten-year-old twins James and Morgan and their parents backpack twenty-six miles along the Appalachian Trail, spotting synchronized fireflies and North America’s largest salamander species. But will the adventure end when Morgan comes down with a mysterious illness? Each book in the exciting Adventures with the Parkers series for kids 8–13 explores a popular national park and is packed with adventure as well as engaging and educational facts about nature, outdoor safety, and much more. Vacation has never been this fun! Books in the Adventures with the Parkers Series: Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks: Danger in the Narrows Glacier National Park: Going to the Sun Grand Canyon National Park: Tail of the Scorpion Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Ridge Runner Rescue Mount Rushmore, Badlands, Wind Cave: Going Underground Olympic National Park: Touch of the Tide Pool, Crack of the Glacier Rocky Mountain National Park: Peril on Longs Peak Yellowstone National Park: Eye of the Grizzly Yosemite National Park: Harrowing Ascent of Half Dome

Mount Rushmore, Badlands, Wind Cave: Going Underground

Mount Rushmore, Badlands, Wind Cave: Going Underground
Author: Mike Graf
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2012-03-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0762784148

Each book in the Adventures with the Parkers series for kids 8-13 takes the Parker family to a popular national park and is packed with adventure as well as interesting facts about park activities, natural history, outdoor safety, and much more.

Democracy's Mountain

Democracy's Mountain
Author: Ruth M. Alexander
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2023-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 080619331X

At 14,259 feet, Longs Peak towers over Colorado’s northern Front Range. A prized location for mountaineering since the 1870s, Longs has been a place of astonishing climbing feats—and, unsurprisingly, of significant risk and harm. Careless and unlucky climbers have experienced serious injury and death on the peak, while their activities, equipment, and trash have damaged fragile alpine resources. As a site of outdoor adventure attracting mostly white people, Longs has mirrored the United States’ tenacious racial divides, even into the twenty-first century. In telling the history of Longs Peak and its climbers, Ruth M. Alexander shows how Rocky Mountain National Park, like the National Park Service (NPS), has struggled to contend with three fundamental obligations—to facilitate visitor enjoyment, protect natural resources, and manage the park as a site of democracy. Too often, it has treated these obligations as competing rather than complementary commitments, reflecting national discord over their meaning and value. Yet the history of Longs also shows us how, over time, climbers, the park, and the NPS have attempted to align these obligations in policy and practice. By putting mountain climbers and their relationship to Longs Peak and its rangers at the center of the story of Rocky Mountain National Park, Alexander exposes the significant role outdoor recreationists have had—as both citizens and privileged adventurers—in shaping the peak’s meaning, use, and management. Since 2000, the park has promoted climber enjoyment and safety, helped preserve the environment, facilitated tribal connections to the park, and attracted a more diverse group of visitors and climbers. Yet, Alexander argues, more work needs to be done. Alexander’s nuanced account of Longs Peak reveals the dangers of undermining national parks’ fundamental obligations and presents a powerful appeal to meet them fairly and fully.