RICHARD VACHA — The Heart of Tracking
Tracking as a way of paying attention, from a tracker working in Point Reyes.
RODERICK NASH — Wilderness and the American Mind
How wilderness was invented as an idea, and by whom. Necessary before using the word.
REBECCA SOLNIT — Wanderlust: A History of Walking
The intellectual history of the thing Thoreau started. Solnit writes from the Bay Area, which is not incidental.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU — Walking
The founding text of walking as distinct from getting somewhere.
NAN SHEPHERD — The Living Mountain
Written in the 1940s about being in a mountain rather than conquering it. The finest argument against summit-thinking ever made.
GARY SNYDER — The Practice of the Wild
The book behind most of what this project believes. Attention as a discipline, place as an obligation.
STETSON — Open Road Felt Hat
Fur felt, shaped to the head, better every year it's worn. Buy the hats.
WHITE'S BOOTS — Smokejumper Boot
The lineage boot of the American West. Resoleable, rebuildable, and worth the wait.
NICK'S BOOTS — Ridgeline Packer Boot
Built by hand in Spokane and rebuildable for decades. A synthetic sole is no compromise when you can replace it.
STORMY KROMER — Original Wool Cap
A railroad engineer's cap from 1903 with a pull-down band for wind. One size, no sizing problem.
BARBOUR — Bedale Waxed Jacket
The plain one. Rewaxable indefinitely, and the only Barbour that has never been a fashion object.
STEINER — Loden Cape
Austrian loden, boiled and fulled until it turns weather. Nobody in American outdoor retail is drawing on this tradition.
SWANNDRI — Ranger Bush Shirt
New Zealand bush wool, cut long, worn by people who work outside in weather.
PENDLETON — Plaid Trail Shirt
Their own wool, their own mill. The shirt that has been in the back of American trucks for eighty years.
FILSON — Tin Cloth Field Jacket
Oil-finish cotton stiff as board when new and shaped to you within a season.
FILSON — Mackinaw Wool Cruiser
Designed for Pacific Northwest timber work in 1914 and still cut the same. Heavy virgin wool, four pockets, no apology.
LAKSEN — Tweed Shooting Jacket
The European field tradition done properly. Laksen anchors this side of the store the way White's anchors the other.
FJALLRAVEN — Varmland Wool Jacket
Dense wool that stays warm wet and stays quiet in cover. The best thing Fjallraven makes.
FJALLRAVEN — Lappland Hybrid Trousers
Cotton-led G-1000 that waxes and softens with use. Cut for long days moving quietly.