B. Frank's tales of skiing backcountry, walking wilderness, rowing rapids, soaking in hot springs, wandering streets, and eking out a living in the West that makes that life possible are also tours through the collateral damage of clashing American Dreams in the New West. Hold on -- it's a wild ride. But a worthwhile one, as B's boisterous forays 'out there' also unearth versions of the American Dream that don't ignore the tracks we're leaving behind.

Colorado native B. Frank is a backcountry guide and a senior correspondent for Mountain Gazette. "B. Frank has an intimacy with the overall ecology -- social, natural, unnatural -- of his Home Range that runs deep and wide as the root systems of bristlecone pines." - M. John Fayhee, editor, Mountain Gazette