It’s been hectic since the book has gone “live’ for sale.  To those of you that have already placed orders: thank you! Hopefully, when you get the book and have a chance to read it, you’ll post comments here. I can’t begin to tell you how much work this has been and if you enjoy reading it and get something out of it, then I’ll feel I’ve accomplished my goals.

The web site has had some improvements. The photos page now has 160 photos. The order of the photos approximately follows the chapters of the book, so if you see something in the book that looks interesting, you can probably find the color version of it on the web site.

The photo quality of a black and white photo in standard book print is very low quality; higher than newspaper, but certainly not like a coffee table photo book. This is one of the trade-offs of trying to keep a book’s costs down and still come up with reasonable quality. Unfortunately, when I was completing the hike, it never dawned on me it would be a book. If there is a life’s lesson there, it would be: always keep good records and take high quality photos. During most of the hike I had the camera set for medium grade photos. I assumed I would be putting them on the web, but didn’t consider that most publishers want at least 300 DPI (Dots Per Inch) photos. In some cases I had to convert the images to achieve 300 DPI, but something gets lost in the translation.

It’s 2 am, time to get some sleep. Once again, thanks.

Dennis, “K1” Blanchard