Just a reminder to AZ hikers that I'll be presenting another slide show on Grand Obsession this coming Tuesday, April 8 at 7pm at the burton barr library in downtown phoenix. It's free and from what I hear, the burton barr is a great space. Hope you can make it! Crzy4AZ - thanks for coming to the ph...

Thanks! It was a lucky meeting, what can I say? If interested, I'll be giving free photography lectures and book slideshows in phoenix soon. Please come and introduce yourself. Here's the schedule: Book slideshows: Tuesday, April 1, 2008 AZ Outdoor and Travel Club Hotel Scottsdale, 5101 North Scotts...

Hi CrAZy4AZ - Thanks, I really appreciate that. My mom has a good story about the doctor visit.

Nice to meet you too.

AZBackpackr - gracias and yes on the book. Thanks for attending the slide show.

- EB

Joe - thanks!! That's quite a recommendation you wrote on Amazon! Glad to hear you enjoyed it enough to give the thumbs-up.

If you happen to make it to REI on the 25th (Phx) or 26th (Tempe), be sure to say hi.

Hoffmaster, Glad to hear you are a Butchart fan! I think you'll be into Grand Obsession - it's pretty much for the die-hard canyon junkies out there. We wrote it to fill in the gap created by all those river running books and comparatively few hiking books, and we consequently found a gold mine of s...

Hi Joe,

Thanks much for your kind words. I appreciate the link posting! Hope to see you at REI next month.

- Elias

Grand Obsession: Harvey Butchart and the Exploration of Grand Canyon . It's available in Phx at REI, also online at pumapress.org or amazon. It's taken a combined total of 17 years between Elias Butler and Tom Myers (who co-wrote the book Death in Grand Canyon ) to produce the history of Harvey But...