Weltzien Returns to Open Book Club with "Exceptional Mountains: A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes"

SEELEY LAKE - O. Alan Weltzien will be reading from and discussing his newly published book, "Exceptional Mountains: a Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes" Saturday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Grizzly Claw Trading Company. The event is sponsored by Alpine Artisans' Open Book Club and is free. All are welcome.

In "Exceptional Mountains," Weltzien provides a comprehensive and well-indexed history of mountaineering among the volcanoes of the northwest: Rainier, Hood, Baker and others. He explores the evolving interest in climbing, noting earliest assaults on these celebrated volcano...