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Clouds wash over Mount Katahdin's Tablelands, just a mile or so from the northern terminus of the Appalachian TrailNin the cat on Mount Washington. Illustration by T.B.R. Walsh from Cat in the Clouds







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If All the Animals Came InsideCat in the CloudsLife at the Top: Mount Washington Observatory Tales
Animal tales, weather wisdom and mountain mischief for all ages

Welcome to the website of New Hampshire author Eric Pinder. To find books, interviews, humorous essays, recommended reading, and more, please visit the annotated sitemap.

Come take a literary field trip to the icy outpost where Eric lived and worked for seven years. His experiences on the foggy, windswept summit of Mount Washington inspired several books, including his first children’s book, Cat in the Clouds.

Weather aficionados can debate the merits of Celsius vs Fahrenheit, find out what ice storms and The Electric Company have in common, groan at some bad puns, read about the childhood of legendary meteorologist Don Kent and try to ace a fun but deceptively easy quiz.

Eric PinderNews & Upcoming Events:
Friday, January 20, 2012: Join Eric and a whole herd of New England writers for a book signing at Zorvino Vineyards in Sandown NH from 6-9 pm.

Saturday, January 28: Talk and book signing, 1:30-2:30 pm, Derry Public Library in Derry NH. Learn about bears and blizzards!

Wednesday, February 22, 2012: Presentation and book signing at Nevins Memorial Library in Methuen, Mass., starting at 7 pm.

North to Katahdin
Katahdin’s Knife Edge
Author Gary Nahban calls nature writing “going out into the boonies and interviewing plants” in the excellent (and sadly out of print) anthology Words from the Land. See this annotated list of the top ten nature writing books, and find out why you shouldn’t read Walden until you’re 30. Eric Pinder’s own book of nature writing, North to Katahdin, follows Thoreau’s footsteps to ask the question, “Why do we like to hike?”

Mount Washington Observatory tales and humorNorth to KatahdinSoul of the Sky








Nature writing about mountains & weather, from New England to Antarctica
Speaking of nature writing, J.R.R. Tolkien spent so much time describing trees and mushrooms that he could have called his epic A Hiker’s Guide to the Shire. Click here for

Cycling's Greatest Misadventures
Cycling’s Greatest Misadventures and other anthologies
Eric Pinder’s reviews and musings about books that inspired or intrigued him. It’s an eccentric list ranging from Tolkien to Ken Grimwood’s fascinating novel Replay to The Winds of War.

Volcanoes, geysers and glaciers await travelers to Iceland (and don’t forget to try the rotten shark). For icy adventures closer to home, read Into Deep Slush, an excerpt from Tying Down the Wind. Discover what happens when you make high-altitude pizza right before an alpine search-and-rescue operation. Climb above timberline into the realm of Pamola, who once terrified Henry David Thoreau, and revisit the “forever wild” setting of Donn Fendler’s classic children’s book Lost on a Mountain in Maine.

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