Mountaineering Articles by Ron Dart

MOUNTAINEERING BOOKS/ ARTICLES: 2006-2008

BOOKS
Thomas Merton and the Beats of the North Cascades (2006)

Mountaineering and the Humanities: The Ascent of Mount Ventoux (2006)

The Beatitudes: When Mountain Meets Valley (2006)

Mountaineering and the Humanities (2007)

Thomas Merton and the Beats of the North Cascades (2^nd edition: expanded and updated: 2008)

ARTICLES

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1. “Elk-Thurston”, The Tripper (January 2006).
2. “Dam Mountain-Munday Cabin”, The Tripper (February 2006).
3. “Hollyburn Mountain/Mount Waddington-Plummer Hut”, The Tripper (March 2006).
4. “Exploring the Ruins of the Munday Cabin on the North Shore’s Dam Mountain”, Avalanche Echoes March (2006).
5. “Jack Kerouac and Desolation Peak”, Beat Scene (Spring 2006: No. 50).
6. “Stawamus Chief (Centre/North Peaks)” The Tripper (April 2006).
7. “Skagit Valley: A Poem” and “Marion/Loon Lakes”, Cloudburst (Spring-Summer 2006).
8. “A BC Mountain Legend: Phyllis Munday”, Avalanche Echoes (May 2006).
9. “Dam Mountain: Munday Cabin” & “Clayoquot Sound/Hot Springs Cove/Meares Island”, B.C. Mountaineering Club Newsletter (May 2006).
10. “Mount McGuire”, The Tripper (June 2006).
11. “Hollyburn Mountain” & ‘Marion/Loon Lakes”, B.C. Mountaineering Club Newsletter (June-July 2006).
12. “Spirituality and Mountaineering”, BC Christian News (July 2006)
13. “Cokely & Lady Peaks”, The Tripper (July 2006).
14. “”Elizabeth Parker and the Alpine Club of Canada”, www.vivelecanada.ca (July 6 2006).
15. “Mountains of the Mind: Book Review”, B.C. Mountaineering Club Newsletter (August-September 2006).
16. “Spirituality and Mountaineering”, The Abbotsford News (August 31 2006).
17. “Mount Arrowsmith”, The Tripper (September 2006)
18. “Russet Hut & Afghanistan: A Father and Son in Conversation”, www.clarion-journal.ca (September 6 2006)
19. “Russet Hut & Afghanistan: A Father and Son in Conversation”, www.vivelecanada.ca (September 11 2006)
20. “Alpine Club of Canada Centennial Camp: Tantalus Range”, Avalanche Echoes (September 2006).
21. “A Passion for Mountains: The Lives of Don and Phyllis Munday.” Book Review: B.C. Mountaineering Club Newsletter (October 2006).
22. ‘Russet Hut & Afghanistan: A Father and Son in Conversation’, Words and Visions (Autumn 2006).

23. “Mount Slesse”, Avalanche Echoes (October 2006).
24. “Mount Outram”, The Tripper (October 2006).
25. ‘The Ascent of Mount Ventoux’, The B.C. Mountaineer 2006.
26. ‘Lake District Peaks, England’, The B.C. Mountaineer 2006.
27. ‘Mount Waddington: Queen of the Coast Range’, The B. C. Mountaineer 2006.
28. ‘Cokely/Arrowsmith-Lady Peak’, B.C. Mountaineering Club Newsletter (November 2006).
29. ‘A Weekend with Don and Phyllis Munday: Cokely/Arrowsmith and Lady Peak, 7-8 July 2006’, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2006).
30. ‘A Waddington/Munday Reading List’, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2006).
31. ‘ACC Vancouver Centennial Camp: Tantalus Hut’, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2006).
32. ‘Needle Peak’, Avalanche Echoes (January 2007).
33. ‘Russet Hut and Afghanistan’, The B.C. Mountaineering Club Newsletter (January 2007).
34. ‘Wedgemount Lake’, The B.C. Mountaineering Club Newsletter (February 2007).
35. ‘Rocky Mountain Poems: 1960.’ Book Review: Avalanche Echoes (February 2007).
36. ‘Climber’: Queen’s Quarterly 1964, Short Story Review: B.C. Mountaineering Club Newsletter (March 2007)
37. ‘One Muddy Hand: Selected Poems’ (Earle Birney: 2006): Book Review, Avalanche Echoes (March 2007).
38. ‘Lower Zopkios Traverse/Mt. Zoa’, The Tripper (March 2007).
39. ‘Zum and Zoa’, The Tripper (April 2007).
40. ‘Tahr Peak’, Avalanche Echoes (May 2007).
41. ‘Monument 83 Lookout Cabin’, Avalanche Echoes (May 2007).
42. ‘Thar Peak’, The Tripper (May 2007).
43. ‘A Passion for Mountains: The Lives of Don and Phyllis Munday’, Book Review, Island Bushwacker (May 2007).
    

44. ‘Thar Peak’, Avalanche Echoes (June 2007).
45. ‘A Passion for Mountains: The Lives of Don and Phyllis Munday’,Book Review, The Alpine Club of Canada: Gazette (Vol. 22, No. 2 Summer 2007).
    

46. ‘West Coast members christen Centennial with Lovely Water’, The Alpine Club of Canada: Gazette (Vol. 22, No. 2 Summer 2007).
    

47. ‘The Mountain Project: A Memorial’, Book Review, Cloudburst, (Spring/Summer 2007).
    

48. ‘Chinook Days’, Book Review, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2007).
49. ‘Wapta Icefield Traverse: July 14-21’, The Tripper (July 2007).
50. ‘Guardians of the Peaks: Mountain Rescue in the Canadian Rockies and Columbia Mountains’, ‘Don Forest: Quest for the Summits’, ‘11,000ers of the Canadian Rockies’, Book Reviews: The Tripper (August 2007).
51. ‘Volcano Tour’, Avalanche Echoes (September 2007).
52. ‘Soul Searching Along the Mountainside’ (article by Sarah Fawcett on my summer mountaineering), The Cascade (September 13 2007).
53. ‘Lake Louise Tour’, The Tripper (September 2007)
54. ‘Mount Outram’, The Tripper (September 2007).
55. ‘Coast Mountain Men: Mountaineering Stories from the West Coast’, Book Review, B.C. Mountaineering Club Newsletter (October 2007).
    

56. ‘Mountaineering and the Humanities’, Reviewed by Gil Parker for B.C. Mountaineering Club Newsletter (October 2007).
    
57. ‘Blackcomb Peak/Wedge/Cheakamus Lake’, The Tripper (October 2007).
    
58. ‘Lake Louise at its Best’ & ‘The Canadian Rockies’, Book Reviews, The Tripper (October 2007).
    
59. ‘Blackcomb Peak, Wedge Mountain and Cheakamus Lake’, Avalanche Echoes (November 2007).
    
60. ‘Mountaineering and the Humanities’, Reviewed by Gil Parker for Avalanche Echoes (November 2007).
    
61. ‘Tahr Summit’, The Tripper (November 2007).
    
62. ‘Thomas Merton and Mountains’, The Merton Journal: Journal of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Advent 2007).
    
63. ‘Thomas Merton and the Beats of the North Cascades’, Reviewed by Angus Stuart for The Merton Journal (Advent 2007).
    
64. ‘Baby Munday/knight Peaks Col’, The Tripper (December 2007).
    
65. ‘Mountaineering and the Humanities’, Reviewed by Gil Parker for Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2007).
    

66. ‘Coast Mountain Men: Mountaineering Stories from the West Coast’, Book Review, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2007).
    

67. ’Baby Munday/Knight Peak Col’, Avalanche Echoes (January 2008).
68. ‘Elk/Thurston’, The Tripper (January 2008).
69. Book Reviews: Lake Lousie at its Best, The Canadian Rockies, A Hiker's Guide to the Rocky Mountain Art of Laureen Harris, B.C. Mountaineering Club Newsletter (February 2008).
70. ‘Goetz Peak’ and ‘Elfin Lakes Hut’, The Tripper (April 2008).
71. ‘Tahr Summit’ and ‘Zupjok, Llama and Alpaca Peaks’, The Tripper (June 2008).
72. ‘Mount Harvey’, ‘Knight Peak’ and ‘Garibaldi-Whistler Trek’, The Tripper (July 2008).
73. ‘Elk/Thurston’, Avalanche Echoes (February 2008).
74. ‘Hollyburn Ridge/Peak’, The Tripper (February 2008).
75. ‘Mountains and the Soul: Contemplation, Ecology and Politics’, Topic (May 2008).
76. Book Reviews: A Passion for Mountains: The Lives of Don and Phyllis Munday (Kathryn Bridge) and One Muddy Hand: Selected Poems of Earle Birney (edited by Sam Solecki) Canadian Alpine Journal (Volume 91: 2008).
    

77. Book Review: The Spirituality of Nature, Topic (September 2008).
    

78. ‘A Mountain Marriage: 30 Years of Mountaineering’, Avalanche Echoes (November 2008).
    

79. ‘Canadian Alpinism: Beginnings’, B.C. Mountaineering Club Newsletter (November 2008).
80. Poem/Short Story: “ Déjà vu David” and “A Woman and Her Hawk”, Cloudburst (2008).

81. Article: “Canadian Alpinism”, Cloudburst 2008).
82. Book Reviews: 1) Disaster on Mount Slesse: The Story of Western Canada’s Worst Air Disaster, 2) Guardians of the Peaks: Mountain Rescue in the Canadian Rockies and Columbia Mountains, 3) Don Forest: Quest for the Summits, 4) One Muddy Hand: Selected Poems of Earle Birney, 5) The 11,000ers of the Canadian Rockies, 6) Climber, 7) Mountains of the Mind, 8) Rocky Mountain Poems, 9) Lake Louise at its Best: An Affectionate Look at Life at Lake Louise by One who knew it well, 10) The Canadian Rockies: Pioneers, Legends and True Tales, Cloudburst (2008).
    

83. ‘Callaghan Valley Olympic Nordic Ski Trail: A Day on the Slopes’, The Tripper (January 2009).
    

84. Book Review: ‘The Coast Mountains Trilogy: Mountain Poems,1957-1971’, B.C. Mountaineering Club Newsletter (February 2009: Vol. 87, No. 2).
    

85. Book Reviews: ‘The Coast Mountains Trilogy: Mountain Poems,1957-1971’ & ‘’Expedition to the Edge’, Avalanche Echoes (March 2009).
    

86. Book Review: ‘The Coast Mountains Trilogy: Mountain Poems, 1957-1971’, Gazette (Spring 2009: Vol. 24, No. 1).
    

87. ‘Callaghan Valley Lodge Touring Trek’, The Tripper (March 2009).
    

88. ‘Black Mountain/Eagle Bluff’ and ‘Callaghan Lodge: Ring/Solitude Loops’, The Tripper (April 2009).
    

89. ‘Conrad Kain: A BC Mountaineering Icon’, Outdoor Recreation of British Columbia (Spring 2009: Vol. 21 No. 1).

90. ‘Conrad Kain: BC Mountaineering Icon’, Avalanche Echoes (May 2009).
    

91. ‘Conrad Kain: BC Mountaineering Icon’, The North Call (May 2009).
    

92. Book Review: ‘The Mountain Knows No Expert: George Evanoff: Outdoorsman and Contemporary Hero’, The North Call (May 2009).
    

93. Book Reviews: “Expeditions to the Edge: Stories of Wildlife Adventure”, “The Coast Mountain Trilogy: Mountain Poems 1957-1971” & “The Mountain Knows No Expert: George Evanoff: Outdoorsman and Contemporary Hero”, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2009).

94. “Conrad Kain: BC Mountaineering Icon”, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2009).
    

95. Book Review: “The Mountain Knows No Expert: George Evanoff: Outdoorsman and Contemporary Hero”, Canadian Alpine Journal (Volume 92, 2009).
    

96. “Hiking in the Mundays’ Footsteps”, Peter Rothermel (article on Peter and my trekking journey to discover the origins of the Waddington climb by the Mundays) Canadian Alpine Journal (Volume 92, 2009).
97. ‘Musical Bumps: Whistler’, The Tripper (July 2009).
98. ‘Mount Outram’, ‘Mount Seymour/Mystery Lake’ & ‘Grouse-Goat-Crown Mountains’, The Tripper (September 2009).
99. Book Review: ‘The B.C. Mountaineer: 100 Years of Mountaineering’, The North Call (September 2009).
100. ‘The Canadian Alpine Tradition: Swiss Guides and Conrad Kain’, The North Call (September 2009).
101. ‘Conrad Kain’, The Canadian Encyclopedia (October 2009).
102. ‘Mountaineering’, The Canadian Encyclopedia (October 2009).
103. Book Review: ‘Deep Powder and Steep Rock: The Life of Mountain Guide Hans Gmoser’, Avalanche Echoes October 2009).
104. ‘Wheeler Hut-Hermit Range’, The Tripper (October 2009).
105. Book Review: ‘The B.C Mountaineer: 100 Years of Mountaineering 1907-2007’, B.C. Mountaineering Club Newsletter (Volume 87, No. 11: November 2009).
106. ‘The Canadian Alpine Tradition: Swiss Guides and Conrad Kain’, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2009).
107. ‘Autumn’ and ‘Conrad and the Goat’, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2009).
108. ‘Little Yoho Valley Glacier Climbs’, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2009).
109. Book Reviews: ‘The B.C. Mountaineer: 100 Years of Mountaineering 1907-2007’ and ‘Deep Powder and Steep Rock: The Life of Mountain Guide Hans Gmoser’, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2009).
110. Book Review: ‘The B.C. Mountaineer: 100 Years of Mountaineering 1907-2007’, Gazette (Vol. 24, No. 3, Winter 2009).
111. ‘Falls Lake Bowl’ and ‘Mount Baker/Table Mountain’, The Tripper (December 2009).
112. ‘Canadian Mountaineering’, The Canadian Encyclopedia (Autumn 2009).
113. ‘Conrad Kain’, The Canadian Encyclopedia (Autumn 2009).
114. Book Review: ‘The Mountain Knows No Expert: George Evanoff: Outdoorsman and Contemporary Hero, The Outdoor Recreation Report (Fall 2009 Vol. 21 No. 2).
115. Book Reviews: ‘The B.C. Mountaineer: 100 Years of Mountaineering 1907-2007’ & ‘Deep Powder and Steep Rock: The Life of Mountain Guide Hans Gmoser’, The Bushwhacker Newsletter (December 2009).
116. ‘Memories of Whistler: From Alta Lake to Whistler/Blackcomb and the 2010 Olympics’, Appalachia (Volume LXI No. 1, Magazine No. 229, Winter/Spring 2010).
117. ‘Mountain Affinities’, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2010)
118. ‘AST I Plus Course’, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2010).
119. ‘Birney’s Conrad Kain’: A Review Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2010)
120. ‘Exploring the Coast Mountains on Skis: A Guide to Ski Mountaineering’: Book Review, Cloudburst (Spring-Summer 2010).
121. Book Review: ‘The Mountain Project’, The Outdoor Recreation Report (Spring/Summer 2010).
122. ‘A Death in Canada (1896): How It Transformed Mountaineering’, Appalachia (Summer/Fall 2010).
123. ‘Kokanee Glacier Trip’, The Tripper (August 2010).
124. ‘The Bugaboo Glacier and Nakimu Caves’, The Tripper (September 2010).
125. ‘Mountain Mentors’, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2010).
126. ‘Bugaboos/Nakimu Caves’, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2010).
127. ‘Conrad Kain & Phyllis Munday: Mount Robson’, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2010).
128. ‘Swiss Guides: Shaping Mountain Culture in Western Canada’ Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2010).
129. ‘The Wildest Dream: George Mallory Revisited’, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2010).
130. ‘In the Path of an Avalanche: A True Story’, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2010).
131. ‘The Purcell Suite: Upholding the Wild’, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2010).
132. ‘Bruno Engler: Renaissance Mountain Man (1915-2001), Mountain Matters (November 2010).
133. ‘Mount Waddington: Queen of the BC Coastal Range’, Mountain Matters (December 2010).
134. ‘Déjà vu David’, The B.C. Mountaineer (2010).
135. ‘Conrad Kain and Phyllis Munday: Mt. Robson, 1924’, The B.C. Mountaineer (2010).
136. ‘Skiing/Snowshoeing in the Callaghan Valley’, The Tripper (December 2010).
137. ‘Leo Grillmair (1930…), Mountain Matters (January 2011).
138. ‘Elk Mountain’, The Tripper (January 2011).
139. ‘Kulshan Ridge’, Avalanche Echoes (January-February 2011).
140. ‘Climber’, Mountain Matters (February 2011).
141. ‘Don Munday: Mountain Memoirs’, Mountain Matters (March 2011).
142. ‘The Appalachian Mountain Club/Alpine Club of Canada: Origins of Mountaineering in North America, Mountain Matters (April 2011).
143. ‘Hans Gmoser: Mountain Vagabond, Mountain Patriarch’, Mountain Matters (May 2011).
144. ‘A BC Mountain Legend: Phyllis Munday’, Mountain Matters (June 2011).
145. ‘Skoki Lodge’, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2001).
146. ‘Birney’s David’, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2011).
147. ‘Rocky Mountain Guide Books’, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2011).
148. ‘Bruno Engler: Renaissance Mountain Man’, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2011).
149. ‘The Beats of the North Cascades’, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2011).
150. ‘Mountains of the Mind’ (Book Review), Mountain Matters (July 2011).
151. ‘Garibaldi Park Tour: July 24-29’, The Tripper (July 2011).
152. ‘In the Western Mountains: Early Mountaineering in BC’ (Book Review): Mountain Matters (August 2011).
153. “Backcountry Skiing and Olympic Alpine/Slalom Skiing: Twins in the Mountaineering Womb”, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2012)
154. “Tackling Everest at Whistler”, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2012)
155. “Witches Finger”, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2012)
156. Book Review: “ Should I Not Return: The Most Controversial tragedy in the history of North American mountaineering”, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2012)
157. Book Review: Earle Birney’s “David and Other Poems”, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2012)
158. Book Review: “Mountains of the Coast: Photographs of remote corners of the Coast Mountains, Cloudburst(Spring/Summer 2012)
159. Book Review: “ Raising Kain: The adventurous life of Conrad Kain, Canada’s greatest mountaineer”, Cloudburst(Spring/Summer 2012)
160. “The Beat Generation in the Mountains”, Appalachia (Winter/Spring 2012)
161. “Lake O’Hara, Abbot Hut and a Rescue on Lefroy”, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2012)
162. “Sir Arnold Lunn and Modern Skiing: The Murren Heritage: 90^th Anniversary”, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2012)
163. Book Review: “Outdoor Safety and Survival”, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2012)
164. Book Review: “The Alpine Anatomy of Arnold Shives”, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2012)      
165. “Mount Assiniboine”, The Tripper (August 2013)
166. “The Colorado 14,000ers”, The Tripper (August 2013)
167. “Conrad Kain and Lake O’Hara”, O’Hara 2013
168. “Conrad Kain and the 1909 ACC Camp at O’Hara”, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2013)
169. “Ruthie Oltmann: Baroness of Kananaskis Country”, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2013)
170. Book Review: “John Clarke: Explorer of the Coast Mountains”, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2013)
171. DVD Review: “A Life Ascending”, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2013)
172. "Mountain Legends in Assiniboine" Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2013)
173. "Karl Ricker: Renaissance Mountain Man" Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2013)
174. "Mount Assiniboine: August 18-31" Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2013)
175. Book Review: Finding Jim (2013) by Sue Oakley-Baker, Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2013)
176. Eulogy: "Ferdinand (Ferdl) Taxbock (1942-2013), Cloudburst (Fall/Winter 2013)
177. "Roderick Haig-Brown: Conservation-Preservation," (Spring/Summer 2014)
178. Book Review: Base Camp: 40 Days on Everest (2014) by Diane Whelan, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2014)
179. Book Review: Rocky Mountain Poems (1960) by Ralph Gustafson, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2014)
180. Book Review: Burke and Widgeon: A Hiker's Guide (2014) by Lyle Litzenberger, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2014)
181. Book Review: Finding Jim (2013) by Sue Oakley-Baker, Canadian Alpine Journal (Vol. 97, 2014)
182. Book Review: Rain Music: Travel Narratives (2013) by Doug Beardsly, Imago (Summer 2014)