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Author Talk:
Michael Engelhard

Date:	May 25, 1:00 pm-2:00pm
Continues Until:
Location:	1 Quartz Street
Details:	Join us for a collaboration with the Crested Butte Center for the Arts’ Mountain Words Festival with a free author talk at the Gunnison Library on Sunday, May 25th at 1pm. Author Michael Engelhard will discuss his memoir, Arctic Traverse: A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range. About the book: A lyrical memoir that interweaves wilderness, homeland, cultural connections, historical figures, humor, and gritty experiences across northern Alaska, Arctic Traverse: A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range takes readers along on a once-in-a-lifetime journey. From the award-winning author of Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon comes an intimate exploration of Alaska’s northernmost mountain range with observations on Indigenous cultures, conservation, and intense cross-country travel, all shaped by respect for the land. Follow author Michael Engelhard through tussock-studded tundra for a remarkable tale of bear encounters and white-knuckled river moments, as well as poetic reflections on a vast, untamed landscape. A trained anthropologist, Engelhard evokes classic writers like Edward Abbey, Barry Lopez, and Ellen Meloy with profound dives into human and natural history and vivid meditations on Alaskan wildlife, flora, and geology. When he embarked on this thru-hike, fewer people had completed it solo in a single push than had dived to the floor of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of Earth’s oceans. Much more than a captivating account of a human-powered solo thru-hike and float, Arctic Traverse illuminates the spirit of Alaska, drawing on encounters with Indigenous elders, guided clients, scientists, and others as well as on Engelhard’s long-held dream and his experiences of the land itself. About the author: Trained as an anthropologist with a degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Michael Engelhard worked for twenty-five years as a wilderness guide and outdoor instructor in Alaska and on the Colorado Plateau. The editor of four anthologies and author of Ice Bear, a cultural history of the polar bear, he has won three Alaska Press Club Awards, and a Rasmuson Individual Artist Award. Recent books include the National Outdoor Book Award-winning memoir Arctic Traverse as well as What the River Knows: Essays from the Heart of Alaska, and the Grand Canyon essay collection No Walk in the Park. His writing has also appeared in publications like Outside, Sierra, Backpacker, National Parks, Audubon, Utne Reader, and Times Literary Supplement, with more than a hundred articles in Alaska magazine. Engelhard currently lives in Moab again, working on a book about Nome, where he also has been a resident. Click here for the event website

Upcoming Events

TIME	EVENT	LOCATION
Sunday, May 25
10:00am-2:00pm	Bingo Brunch Buffet	The Almont Resort; 10209 CO-135, Almont, CO 81210
1:00pm-2:00pm	Author Talk:	1 Quartz Street
Monday, May 26
9:00am-12:00pm	Memorial Day Parade	132 Elk Ave
6:00pm-9:00pm	Calling All Magic: The Gathering Players!	Storyweaver Games, 901 W Tomichi Unit 2, Gunnison, CO 81230
Wednesday, May 28
5:30pm-7:30pm	Women's Networking Night	Three Rivers Resort - 130 County Road 742, Almont
6:00pm-7:30pm	Wednesday Night Meditation and Dharma Talk	115 S Colorado Street, Optional
Thursday, May 29
12:30pm-1:30pm	Lunchtime Still Life 16+	102 S Main St, Gunnison, CO. 81230
Friday, May 30
5:00pm-7:00pm	Preservation Month Open House	331 Elk Ave
6:00pm-9:00pm	Calling All Magic: The Gathering Players!	Storyweaver Games, 901 W Tomichi Unit 2, Gunnison, CO 81230
Saturday, May 31
10:00am-2:00pm	Outdoor Expo & Fishing Derby	501 East Tomichi Ave
10:00am-1:00pm	MTCB Annual Town Clean Up	Matterhorn Parking Lot (corner of Treasury & Gothic)
7:00pm-9:00pm	An Immersive Solo Acoustic Piano Experience	102 S Main St, Gunnison, CO. 81230
Sunday, Jun 1
6:00pm-8:00pm	GVC3 2nd Annual Film Festival	Majestic Theater, 507 Red Lady
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