22 - Wednesday, July 29, 1992 - North Shore News

B.C. backwoods bibles

» A Guide to Climbing and Hiking in Southwestern British Col-
umbia, by Bruce Fairley, Gordon Soules Ltd., $24.95. » Best of
B.C. Lake Fishing, by Karl Bruhn, Whitecap Books, $14.95. » Ty-
ing Flies For Trophy Trout, by Jack Shaw, Heritage House, $14.95

F YOU haven't already been out pursuing your favorite
outdoor activity for months, shame on you.

But if you've been tramping
familiar local trails for months (or
years), and you're feeling that
atavistic urge to go beyond the
blazes, to venture into the austere
Neverland of ice and rock that
begins where the trai! ends, go out
and get a copy of this welcome
re-issue of Bruce Fairley’s instant
classic before you take another
step.

Twenty-fi ve bucks may seem a
stiff ticket for a paperback, how-
ever well bound, but the most
cursory flip through the hefty 376
pages of A Guide to Climbing and
Hiking in Southwestern British
Colunbia makes it look tike a -
bargain. - ’

The descriptions of approaches
and routes ta practically every -
climbabie peak in southwestern __
8.C. are miracles of precision and

compression, and when you think -

of the uncountable hours of

esearch, not to mention the col-
lective physical effort represented
by this book, it’s enough to make
you collapse in your tracks.

Don’t be intimidated.

Yes, many of the routes are for
hardcore climbers with topgun
skills and more hardware than a
Schwarzenegger flick, but Fairley
always presents the full range of
possible approaches and there’s
many a mountain that seems an
impenetrable fortress from one
side but littie more than a stiff
scramble from another.

What Fairley does for the moun-
tains of southwest B.C., Karl Bruhn
does for more than 500 of the
finest fishing lakes from all over
the province in his book Best of
B.C. Lake Fishing.

Bruhn is a match for Fairley in
conciseness when describing lakes
and access routes, but there’s
something that brings out the
lyricist in the most taciturn angler.

The combination of piscatorial

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passion and the love of words has
produced some of the finest writ-
ing in the world; not just Hem-
ingway’s The Old Man and The
Sea, but the fishing sequences of
The Sun Also Rises, and the short
stories, the journalism and fiction
of Roderick Haig-Brown, Bret
Harte, Thomas McGuane, the in-
cidenta! fishing stories of Col. Jim
Corbett, who hunted man-eating
tigers professionally in the Hima-
layan ravines when he wasn’t fish-
ing, the articles in battered
barbershop copies of Field &
Stream, the columns of resident
Province outdoorsman, Tony
Eberts.

Bruhn is a veteran outdoors
writer, so this is more than just an
excellent, well-organized
guidebook; it’s peppered with
anecdotes, fishing tips and excur-
sions into the little-known waters
of B.C. bass and carp fishing as a
respite from the pursuit of the Wily
Trout.

Bruhn is voluble on the subject
of the intimate lives of certain in-

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