Ever Wild: A Lifetime on Mount Adams
This is a full interior layout that I put together for my Advanced Book Design Class. This is a nonfiction book that consisted of many elements, so the construction of this layout involved building a complex grid, editing photos, working with captions, an index, among other things.
This is a full interior layout that I put together for my Advanced Book Design Class. This is a nonfiction book that consisted of many elements, so the construction of this layout involved building a complex grid, editing photos, working with captions, an index, among other things.
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4 Ever Wild
Introduction
My love affair with all things Mount Adams in southern Washington began
more than seventy years ago, when my twin brother Darvel and I first
explored the trail around Bird Lake as two-year-olds.
We were raised in a large house at the foot of the mountain in a
meadow near Glenwood. The house was designed by my grandfather
and built by local carpenters, and almost every window framed Mount
Adams. In clear weather, we couldn’t help but watch the constantly
changing light on its rugged southeast face. What a grand and sweeping
view it was, with not a tree in the meadow to interrupt its broad and
completely forested base.
Our family spent many summer days on Mount Adams, and we usually
camped at the Forest Service showpiece campground at Bird Creek
Meadows. One day Darvel and I got lost roaming the area off-trail by
ourselves. We were about six years old at the time, and the area seemed
to us like a maze of many small meadows, vales, low ridges, and streams
that all looked alike. Toward sunset we found the trail and ran into worried
adults out looking for us. The both of us have always remembered
it fondly as an adventure. It would be the beginning of almost seven
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