If you've had the pleasure of reading the 40th anniversary edition of Mountain Gazette, I'm sure you noticed the advertisement on the inside cover. It's one of the best I've seen in a long while (who makes custom ads like this anymore?), so hats off to you, Patagonia. Well done.Excuse the Instagram photo (cold_splinters) but the pages of MG are too big to fit on the scanner. Scorpion paperweight courtesy of El Cosmico.
MG Turns 40
One of our favorites around these parts, The Mountain Gazette, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, they put out a special edition that includes some of the best quotes from years past and a drawing of one of its most famous contributors, Ed Abbey, on the cover. Also included in the 40th Anniversary Edition is an article by the magazine's Editor-In-Chief, M. John Fayhee, who describes a speaking engagement in Durango, CO where he was unknowingly the keynote speaker at an Ed Abbey tribute that he had originally tried to decline appearing at. He then goes on to compare Abbey and Hunter S. Thompson and, well, read it yourself...Even if you're not a Mountain Gazette or Abbey fan, the Patagonia ad on the inside cover is worth your time.