River Hippies & Mountain Men chronicles the author’s two-year apprenticeship as a stockman and backcountry packer in the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho.

Working with land and river outfitters, Patrick Taylor tapped into a collective consciousness – a way of thinking that valued a curious and adventurous spirit above all things material and mundane. It is the second book in a 3-part series on ‘the 21st Century Mountain Man’.