Smoke Signals: Wayward journeys through the old heart of the New West

M. John Fayhee's wayward wanderings have seen him illegally backpacking through the world's deepest gorge in China, paddling across crocodile-infested waters in a leaky Zodiac in the Dominican Republic, rafting the Chattooga River with the banjo-playing boy from "Deliverance" and coming face-to-face with a giant statue of Christ in Colorado's San Juan Mountains. Fayhee has recounted many of these off-the-social-grid mis-adventures in his monthly "Smoke Signals" column for the Mountain Gazette, of which he is the editor. Fayhee has distilled his favorite "Smoke Signals" tales into his latest book: "Smoke Signals: Wayward Journeys Though the Old Heart of the New West."