Climbing Out of Bed Chapter List

Hey ya'll here's a chapter list for Climbing Out of Bed:

 photo by Braden Gunem www.bradengunem.com 

1.     Climbing After Kerouac

2.     Untitled Poem, Inspired by Hartman Rocks

3.     Wide Eyes, High Times and Hard Times, a Story of Climbing with Mark Grundon

4.     The Way of the Couch Surfer

5.     Weird and Wheeled Encounters in Hitchhiker’s Space

6.     This is Buildering

7.     A Climber in the Winter of his Discontent

8.     Somewhere in Between Dreams and Smog is Love

9.     The Underwear Model Story

10.   Wild Mountain Honey

11.   Hammer’s Time

12.   Wild Tom Mally

13.   Real Mountain People

14.   Naked Disco Dance Party in J-Tree

15.   Home is Where the Climbing is

16.   Climbing Out of Bed

17.   A Year in the Heart of a Climber

18.   Mary Jane, a Climber’s Thoughts on the Legalization of Marijuana

19.   Trying to Hang with Ben Johnson

20.   The Black Canyon, a Poem

21.   Zen Dishwashing

22.   The Freedom Mobile

23.   Last Thoughts on Adam Lawton

24.   Indian Creek Reflection, Before it All Slips Away

25.   Dumpster Diving Rap

Climbing Out of Bed, July 4th Release

Climbing Out of Bed, the first book from Luke Mehall, will be released on Wednesday, July 4th. It will be initially released as an e-book on Kindle, followed by the printed version. Climbing Out of Bed is a collection of rock climbing and mountain town stories, written over the last 13 years.

The muses of Mehall’s pieces are the people who make up the rock climbing and mountain town culture. Originally hailing from Illinois, Mehall moved to Colorado in 1999 to attend Western State College, in Gunnison. He describes the experience as being a lost soul who floated to the mountains, and then discovered his true self. Many of the stories in Climbing Out of Bed are coming of age tales, especially when the author embarks into the unknown of the rock climbing world.

There are 25 pieces in Climbing Out of Bed, and topics for essays include: friendship, hitchhiking, couch surfing, buildering (climbing buildings), road tripping, dumpster diving, extended camping experiences, dirtbag living, love, loss, wanderlust, and Zen dishwashing

 Mehall lived in the Gunnison Valley, Colorado for 11 years, and now resides in Durango, Colorado, where he is a freelance writer. He is also the publisher of The Climbing Zine, an independent rock climbing publication. His work has been published in Crested Butte Magazine, Rock and Ice, Climbing, Mountain Gazette, foxsports.com, and Patagonia’s blog, The Cleanest Line. He also worked at his alma mater, Western State College of Colorado, for three years, as the assistant director of public relations and communications.

George Sibley, author of Dragons in Paradise and senior correspondent to the Mountain Gazette, says that Mehall’s writing makes him think of Jack Kerouac, on a good day. “I don’t know anyone who writes with more enthusiasm, joy and honest about a life that ranges from pearl diving in restaurant kitchen sinks all winter, to climbing the big walls and spires of North America all summer and fall,” Sibley said.

More information about Climbing Out of Bed can be found at www.climbingzine.com. It will be available on Amazon’s Kindle on Wed., July 4th. The author can be contacted at lukemehall@gmail.com.