Adventure Book Club

We are returning again to a recommendation from a reliable source: Outside magazine. This should get us all excited for our own 2026 adventures!

Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
Author: Conor Knighton
336 pages
Rating: 4.2 Goodreads

Summary: In Leave Only Footprints, Knighton shares informative and entertaining dispatches from what turned out to be the road trip of a lifetime. Whether he's waking up early for a naked scrub in a historic bathhouse in Arkansas or staying up late to stargaze along our loneliest highway in Nevada, Knighton weaves together the type of stories you're not likely to find in any guidebook. Through his unique lens, America the Beautiful becomes America the Captivating, the Hilarious, and the Inspiring.

We will meet at 7pm on Tuesday, January 20 at:
TBD

I will be there early- I have short brown hair and glasses, and will be carrying a copy of the book.

There's such a thing as the Mongol Derby? It's long, it's hard, it was created by Genghis Khan. Therefore, we must read about it!

Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
Author: Laura Prior-Palmer
288 pages
Rating: 3.7 Goodreads

Summary: Riders often spend years preparing to compete in the Mongol Derby, a course that re–creates the horse messenger system developed by Genghis Khan. Many fail to finish. Prior–Palmer had no formal training. She was driven by her own restlessness, stubbornness, and a lifelong love of horses. She raced for ten days through extreme heat and terrifying storms, catching a few hours of sleep where she could at the homes of nomadic families. Battling bouts of illness and dehydration, exhaustion and bruising falls, she decided she had nothing to lose. Each dawn she rode out again on a fresh horse, scrambling up mountains, swimming through rivers, crossing woodlands and wetlands, arid dunes and open steppe, as American television crews chased her in their jeeps.

We will meet at 7pm on Thursday, March 5 at:
TBD

I will be there early- I have short brown hair and glasses, and will be carrying a copy of the book.