Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication iv
3. Epigraph vi
4. Contents viii
5. I. The Same Mountain Twice
6. The Same Mountain Twice 1
7. Gray Wolf Pass 5
8. Glacial Suite 6
9. Appleton Pass: Watershed Nocturne 10
10. Song of the Notch 11
11. Song of the Wind-Loaded Ledges 12
12. Larches on the Continental Divide 13
13. Whiteout in May 14
14. Some Goats 15
15. Fat Salmon in the Clearwater River 16
16. Sea to Sky 17
17. Port Angeles 18
18. Quadrilateral 19
19. Fall Classic 20
20. II: Thisness
21. Thisness 23
22. Ecosystem 27
23. Square 28
24. Schist 29
25. First, Failure 30
26. Failure Revisited 31
27. Eclipse 32
28. A Premise in Kamloops 33
29. Spell for the Museum of the Canadian Rockies 34
30. To Gordon Burles 35
31. Sunplay on Mountains 36
32. In the Spirit World, on a Rock 37
33. High Meadows, September 38
34. Salmon Reconsidered: Goldstream River 39
35. In Winter’s Nick 40
36. Seasonal 41
37. For the Millionth Time 42
38. Maundy Thursday 43
39. Invocation 44
40. III: Instructions for Travel
41. Instructions for Travel 45
42. Teachers and Pupils 48
43. A Lesson on Mount Rexford 49
44. Late August, Nesakwatch Spires 50
45. Snow Dome 52
46. On Reading Conquistadors of the Useless, by Lionel Terray 54
47. Mountain Failure 55
48. Mount Rundle: Second Attempt: 18 September 56
49. Avalanche Bulletin 57
50. At Bozeman International, in Hugo Country 59
51. Contra Naturam 61
52. In Midair 63
53. Transcontinental 66
54. Cancer magister 68
55. Cycling 70
56. The Earthquake 71
57. On Corporeal Existence 73
58. IV: Metamorphoses
59. Metamorphoses 75
60. The Beasts 78
61. New England Aquarium 80
62. Photosynthesis 82
63. Horses off the Kitsap Shore 83
64. Hot Spell in Wet Country 84
65. Spell for the Elwha River 86
66. In Praise of the Mountain Pine Beetle 87
67. Pastoral 88
68. Auspex Maximus 89
69. Sightings 90
70. Several Birds 91
71. Guillemots et guillemets 92
72. Auks Redux 93
73. Migration to the Antipodes 94
74. Biography 95
75. The Emperor of Ice 96
76. Grizzly 98
77. The Bear and the Wind 100
78. Acknowledgements 103
79. About the Author 105