Jane Parnell, first woman to climb the 100 highest peaks of Colorado, will discuss and sign her mountaineering memoir Off Trail: Finding My Way Home in the Colorado Rockies. Parnell's memoir, which spans half a century, dramatizes evolving gender roles from the 1950s to the present and her quest to overcome a family history of mental illness and past trauma. In the tradition of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Tracy Ross's The Source of All Things, Parnell's memoir shows us how, by pushing ourselves to the limits of our physical endurance and by confronting our deepest fears, we can become whole again.

This is Parnell's first book after a 35-year career as a magazine editor and writer. Her articles with her former byline, Jane Koerner, have appeared in High Country News and Mountain Gazette, among other publications.

You can purchase her book after the event for $20 cash or check.

Suggested event donation: $5
Proceeds go toward MRHI programs for mountain conservation and education.