The Colorado Mountain Companion: A Potpourri of Useful Miscellany from the Highest Parts of the Highest State, Paperback

A treasure trove of useful (and just plain fun) information about Colorado's mountain country. A handy-dandy, comprehensive, wide-ranging reference guide to settling (good-naturedly) any arguments about Colorado's high country. We're not just talking about population figures, elevation stats, or lists of Fourteeners and rivers, although these are included. You will learn far more including mountain lexicons (so that you'll know what a gutter bunny, potato chip, and prune really mean), Colorado as a movie set, Colorado songs, skiing, fishing, avalanches, geology, historic districts, hiking and biking, snakes, Superfund sites, strange festivals, weather miserability index, and much more.

M. John Fayhee is the editor of the "Mountain Gazette." A one-time contributing editor at "Backpacke"r magazine, Fayhee's work has also appeared in "Forbes"-"Life""Mountain-Time," "High Country News," "Aspen Sojourner Magazine," "Outside," "Sierra," "Sports Illustrated," "USA Today," "Men's Fitness," "New Mexico Magazine," "America West Airlines Magazine," "Horizon Air," and many other local, regional, and national magazines and newspapers. He is the author of many books, including "Along the Colorado Trail," "A Colorado Winter, "and "Bottoms Up." Fayhee has also hiked the Colorado Trail and the Colorado section of the Continental Divide Trail.