Darryl Lloyd Mt. Adams Book

A picture tells a thousand words. Photographer and adventurer Darryl Lloyd has been instrumental in telling our story though his pictures on our website and in print for years. Now he is telling the story of Mt. Adams and his relationship with that peak in his beautiful new book Ever Wild. We’re buying one signed copy to give away. Want to have a chance to win it? Just send a couple of sentences on what you like best about living in Hood River County to info@thrivehoodriver.org to get into the drawing.

Ever Wild is a mix of adventure memoir with enlightening doses of human history, geography, geology, botany, and a call for protection.

What binds a man’s soul to a mountain? Through a personal journey spanning seven decades, Darryl Lloyd cemented his place in the sweeping story of Washington state’s Mount Adams. Lloyd is the foremost authority on this northern Cascades massif, a sometimes overlooked, but never forgotten, hulk of a mountain known as Pahto to its earliest inhabitants. Growing up on a ranch at the mountain’s base Lloyd devoted his life to learning the mountain, observing the ebb and flow of its glaciers, photographing the play of light, wandering lush meadows and old-growth forests, hiking boulder-strewn slopes and scaling icefalls…and showing the way for those who’ve followed.

Ever Wild is a trove of stories and photographs from Lloyd’s seven decades of exploring, pioneering, and sharing the mountain. Ever Wild is available at Waucoma Books or online here.