Written by SJMA's wonderful Wilderness Ambassador and Educator MK Thompson. 

 “Not every adventure goes according to plan, but if it is not planned, the adventure might never go.”

Be it plans gone wrong—mountain lions, and snow fields, and lightning storms, oh, my—or minor hiccups leading to magical places, this book chronicles just a handful of her misadventures over the years, written with raw honesty and candid humor. Sometime she is lost in the woods or has seriously underestimated the ruggedness of the backcountry terrain. Other times, her optimism leads her to happily drunken cold nights, or an accidental Shangri-La.

Whether you are a hardened adventurer or an armchair enthusiast, everyone can find a little piece of themselves within MK’s real-life stories of optimistic backcountry miscalculations. As she says, “Not every adventure goes according to plan, but if it is not planned, the adventure might never go.”

So what are you waiting for? Read on and enjoy the misadventures.

231 pages