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This blog is the website for Ronald S. Dart, university professor, mountaineer and mentor. You'll find many of his articles at the Clarion Journal website and can order his book, The Beatitudes: When Mountain Meets Valley by clicking here. Welcome to the journey.

Mountaineering Articles by Ron Dart

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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

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

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

‘Thar Peak’, Avalanche Echoes (June 2007).
‘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).

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

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

‘Chinook Days’, Book Review, Cloudburst (Spring/Summer 2007).
‘Wapta Icefield Traverse: July 14-21’, The Tripper (July 2007).
‘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).
‘Volcano Tour’, Avalanche Echoes (September 2007).
‘Soul Searching Along the Mountainside’ (article by Sarah Fawcett on my summer mountaineering), The Cascade (September 13 2007).
‘Lake Louise Tour’, The Tripper (September 2007)
‘Mount Outram’, The Tripper (September 2007).
‘Coast Mountain Men: Mountaineering Stories from the West Coast’, Book Review, B.C. Mountaineering Club Newsletter (October 2007).

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

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

’Baby Munday/Knight Peak Col’, Avalanche Echoes (January 2008).
‘Elk/Thurston’, The Tripper (January 2008).
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).
‘Goetz Peak’ and ‘Elfin Lakes Hut’, The Tripper (April 2008).
‘Tahr Summit’ and ‘Zupjok, Llama and Alpaca Peaks’, The Tripper (June 2008).
‘Mount Harvey’, ‘Knight Peak’ and ‘Garibaldi-Whistler Trek’, The Tripper (July 2008).
‘Elk/Thurston’, Avalanche Echoes (February 2008).
‘Hollyburn Ridge/Peak’, The Tripper (February 2008).
‘Mountains and the Soul: Contemplation, Ecology and Politics’, Topic (May 2008).
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).

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

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

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

Article: “Canadian Alpinism”, Cloudburst 2008).
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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

“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).

Published Books by Ron Dart

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PUBLISHED BOOKS
I. George Grant: Spiders and Bees (Freshwind Press, 2008).
II. Thomas Merton and the Beats of the North Cascades, 2nd edition (Serratus Press, 2008).
III. Mountaineering and the Humanities (Serratus Press, 2007).
IV. The Eagle and the Ox: Contemplation, the Church and Politics (Freshwind Press, 2006).
V. Christianity and the Symphony of Living Faiths (Synaxis Press, 2006).
VI. Athens and Jerusalem: George Grant’s Theology, Philosophy, and Politics, co-edited, (University of Toronto Press, 2006).
VII. Stephen Leacock: Canada’s Red Tory Prophet (Synaxis Press, 2006).
VIII. The Beatitudes: When Mountain Meets Valley (Freshwind Press, 2005).
IX. The Spirituality of John Cassian (Synaxis Press, 2005).
X. Erasmus and Merton: Soul Friends (Chelsea Press, 2005).
XI. Thomas Merton and the Beats of the North Cascades, 1st edition (Serratus Press, 2005).
XII. The Canadian High Tory Tradition: Raids on the Unspeakable (Synaxis Press, 2004).
XIII. Busking (Synaxis Press, 2003).
XIV. Robin Mathews: Crown Prince of Canadian Political Poets (Synaxis Press, 2002).
XV. St. Matthew’s Parish: A People’s History (2001).
XVI. Crosshairs: Being Poetic, Being Political, Being Canadian (Synaxis Press, 2000).
XVII. The Red Tory Tradition: Ancient Routes, New Routes (Synaxis Press, 1999).
XVIII. In A Pluralist Age (Regent College Publishing, 1998).
XIX. The Marks of the Church and Renewal (Chelsea Press, 1994).
XX. Lizard in the Palace (Chelsea Press, 1992).
XXI. The Lute and the Anvil (Chelsea Press, 1988).
XXII. Contemplation and the Polis (Chelsea Press, 1987).
XXIII. Adam: Romantics, Rationalists, Prophets: A Dialogue (Chelsea Press, 1985).

Ronald Samuel Dart

Mountaineering Articles by Ron Dart

Published Books by Ron Dart