Congratulations to Alaskan author Erin McKittrick! Her book, Small Feet, Big Land: Adventure, Home, and Family on the Edge of Alaska won the 2014 National Outdoor Book Award in the category of Outdoor Literature. Judges for the National Outdoor Book Awards come from all over the country. They grant awards in the categories of Outdoor …
While some of us boast about an arduous 7-mile hike along a well-traveled trail, Erin McKittrick and her husband, Hig, have trekked more than 7,000 miles of Alaska’s wilderness. By foot and by packraft, they travel around Alaska, both for their love of adventuring, but also on behalf of their nonprofit, Ground Truth Trekking. The …
I write in the dark. I write with a pencil on a stack of Rite-In-The-Rain paper, awkwardly bound by wire. I write in an ugly printed scrawl. Huddled in my sleeping bag, I write to the accompaniment of my husband’s snores, and my childrens’ gentle sleeping breaths. I write to the hiss of blowing snow …
