Cold Splinters

For those of you who know Jeff you know that he's as modest as they come so don't expect him to share this with you.

"Cold Splinters is a perspective, a worldview, a looking glass to the outdoors that’s filtered with Kodachrome, cigarette smoke, and old leather moccasins. Am I not making sense? Okay, to be more literal, Jeff Thrope uses Cold Splinters to write about the outdoors, but he writes about days gone by, even when he’s writing about stuff happening now.
Cold Splinters is filled with wonderful archival images (the 1930s, ’50s, and ’70s are well-represented), old folk music, pioneering mountaineers, bearded poets, and so much more it’s ridiculous. It’s like he’s the curator of a culture that meets at the intersection of the Whole Earth Catalog and a Ford Fairlane station wagon. He makes you want to grow your moustache out, strap on an external frame backpack, and tie a blue bandana around your forehead."