Climbing With Sasha

By Warren Guntheroth

Book by Guntheroth, Warren This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963692127
• ISBN13: 9780963692122
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Pack & Paddle Publishing, Inco
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A wonderful book!

I came across this book completely by accident (while searching for "Climbing Mt. Shasta") and I found it to be a valuable book on at least two counts. Guntheroth spends the first couple of chapters talking about the nature of huskies. We recently completed dog-sitting a young husky, and it's uncanny how closely his description of Sasha matches the dog (also a female) we dog-sat. Though affectionate, they dislike having their head petted, they are very strong-willed, they need lots of exercise (a husky is NOT a trophy dog to install in your family room, and walk around the block on weekends!) One thing he doesn't mention, since he evidently didn't experience it, but we did, is that huskies strongly dislike sharing their homes with small dogs. Mr. Guntheroth lives in Seattle, and so the climbing he does with Sasha is in the Cascades, where I have spent a good deal hiking, with and without dogs, and so it was quite fun to read of his accounts of hikes that they went on, which I've taken dogs up. The descriptions of the terrain and the experiences -- Fred Beckey's "imperfect" route descriptions, missing trails, descending in failing light battling cliff-outs, the dog being much more aware of her limitations than the people -- all ring perfectly true. Some of these outings could have been accounts of my experiences! The biggest problem is that, at 127 pages, the book is rather short. It's truely a book I didn't want to end so quickly. Thanks, Mr. Guntheroth, for a loving and inspiring book.