The Mountains Know Arizona
Text by Rose Houk, photographs by Michael Collier 272 pages, hardcover $49.95. Arizona Highways Books, 2003.

If you can tear yourself away from the spectacular photos — including some mind-numbing aerial shots (see page 14) — to read the accompanying words, you will be rewarded. In this chunky coffee-table book, Houk and Collier divide the state into its mountain ranges, dissect the landscape and tell its stories. The photos of the Chuska and Lukachukai Mountains on the Navajo reservation — where tourists and Anglo hikers aren’t allowed — will make desert lovers drool.

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The Mountains Know Arizona

by Staff, High Country News
May 2, 2005

<h1>The Mountains Know Arizona</h1> <p class="byline">by Staff, High Country News <br />May 2, 2005</p> <p><b>The Mountains Know<br /> Arizona</b><br /> Text by Rose Houk, photographs by<br /> Michael Collier 272 pages, hardcover $49.95. Arizona Highways<br /> Books, 2003. </p> <p> If you can tear yourself away from the<br /> spectacular photos — including some mind-numbing aerial shots<br /> (<i>see page 14</i>) — to read the accompanying<br /> words, you will be rewarded. In this chunky coffee-table book, Houk<br /> and Collier divide the state into its mountain ranges, dissect the<br /> landscape and tell its stories. The photos of the Chuska and<br /> Lukachukai Mountains on the Navajo reservation — where<br /> tourists and Anglo hikers aren’t allowed — will make desert<br /> lovers drool. </p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=188962">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">The Mountains Know Arizona</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-297/the-mountains-know-arizona/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=111045&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-297/the-mountains-know-arizona/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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