Sandy Scott

Author Sandy Scott with a statue of Henry David Thoreau. Scott author of will give a reading of "Critical Hours: Search and Rescue in the White Mountains" at Ragged Mountain Equipment in Intervale on May 9 at 5 p.m. (COURTESY PHOTO)

Among the new books coming out on the White Mountains, one of the best is “Critical Hours: Search and Rescue in the White Mountains” by Sandy Stott.

Stott was an English teacher in Concord, Mass., and now lives in Brunswick, Maine. He brings an intimate and multi-generational knowledge of the mountains to his writing. He has hiked and run the trails in the White Mountains most of his life. His father was Fred “Mac” Stott, who worked for the Appalachian Mountain Club Hut System and Joe Dodge in the 1930s.

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"Critical Hours: Search and Rescue in the White Mountains" is written by Sandy Scott. (COURTESY PHOTO)

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