One Winter in the Wilderness

Book excerpt: Through a blend of personal experience, historical fiction, and natural history of the Big Creek River area, Pat Pat Cary Peek describes the humorous, frustrating, and sometimes dangerous daily adventures of a winter spent with her husband, a wildlife biologist, in Idaho's remote back country. During the colors of fall, the cold and dark of winter, and the welcome greening of spring, she insightfully details the tensions of cabin isolation in a surrounding of spectacular natural beauty. Peek shares a moving tribute to Taylor Ranch Field Station centered in the Frank Church River of No Return Wildnerness with language of one who loves the Idaho land.