If you thrill when choosing the road less taken, and you are nostalgic when it comes to times gone by, then you should have enjoyed Volumes 1 and 2 of the Sleeping Moose series. They were such free romps through woods and meadows, who wouldn’t love that? But now we enter a new year, and many of the paradigms have changed. This winter on the mountain seems harder than the years that came before. At times the pioneers’ circumstances take on a desperation that calls to mind the difficulties of the Donner Party. Kate’s journal from the winter of 1979-‘80 gives a realistic account of daily life and bare survival out in the Alaskan Bush.