Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 01:34PM New historical novel unveiled on Mount Fisher at 9,336 feet
It was a incredibly warm, sunny day with a clear blue sky that just kept getting clearer and clearer the higher we climbed enroute to the summit of Mount Fisher. The last 1,000 feet was slow going as we picked our way up and over the jumble of boulders that make up Fisher’s Peak. The 360 degree panorama vista from atop of Mount Fisher was breathtaking!
Mount Fisher was officially named such in 1915 in recognition of John S.(Jack)Fisher, who lead one of two parties of prospectors to the mouth of Wild Horse Creek. This rushing mountain stream proved to be one of the West’s richest single gold-bearing streams.
Since I had spend much of the last year researching and writing the historical novel about Jack Fisher I called Living in the Shadow of Fisher Peak, I felt it only right that I once again tackle the trek to the top of Mount Fisher.
Just after 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon on Saturday, August 29th, 2009; I made the last few steps onto the top of Fisher’s Peak. I reached into my backpack and pulled out the prototype of my new historical novel and posed for the accompanying photo.
For a few hours my new book was definately the highest read book in the Kootenay