Winter Watch

2003 High School Battle of the Books. Through detailed journal entries, author James Ramsey recounts the 266 days he spent living in a small log cabin above the Arctic Circle, in the remote Schwatka Mountains of Alaska’s Brooks Range. Ramsey, who spends his summers guiding in Denali National Park, describes the book as “a somewhat bemused account of that sometimes mystifying, occasionally frightening and, in retrospect, altogether glorious time.” Interesting addenda are Ramsey’s Arctic shopping list and a record of his winter reading.