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    Rendezvous at Jumbo Pass: A Twisting Tale of Wilderness Survival
    Rendezvous at Jumbo Pass: A Twisting Tale of Wilderness Survival
    Rendezvous at Jumbo Pass: A Twisting Tale of Wilderness Survival
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    Rendezvous at Jumbo Pass: A Twisting Tale of Wilderness Survival

    By Nowick Gray

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    A wilderness cabin becomes a dream-box of catastrophe and survival, in this true adventure with a paranormal twist. Will, a treeplanter, hikes with a companion to meet his wife and 3-year-old daughter in BC's remote Jumbo Pass. An overnight storm pushes Will to the brink of deadly choices, at fate's mercy.

    Their idyll darkens with Will's hellish predicament, as the seventh dream door crashes shut. He must act under agonizing pressure, and the disorientation of clashing realities. Will he find the strength and wisdom to overcome the odds and avoid disaster?

    Rendezvous at Jumbo Pass breaks the mold of linear narrative by splitting its ending into multiple, coexisting plot threads, or timelines, twisting away from a nightmare hallway of seven doors. The story plays out a mystery of magic realism against the backdrop of vast natural beauty in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia (think Groundhog Day in the heart of the Canadian wilderness).

    Caught in the strands of a deadly time-loop, Will must face the choosing of a successful adventure, time after time until he gets it right.

    Novella, 106 pp.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNowick Gray
    Release dateSep 20, 2015
    ISBN9781311919083
    Rendezvous at Jumbo Pass: A Twisting Tale of Wilderness Survival

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      Reader Reviews of Rendezvous (1st edition)

      Exciting and honest writing that awakens us to our humanity and interconnectedness with nature. The gripping story technique creates a transparency in even the simplest activities of the characters, holed up in their remote cabin on the crest of a mountain, and that makes every choice, every moment verge on the miraculous.

      —Frank Burnaby, author of Island Born

      "Rendezvous took me by surprise in its utter seamlessness. Though the narrative thread twists, loops and even knots, its captivating forward momentum never skips a beat." —Sally Ross, author of The Selfward Facing Way

      Suspense-filled details culminating in twists of possibilities... a slide show of white-knuckle catastrophe. —Raye Rabbitfoot, author of Ley Lines

      Nowick Gray artfully weaves us through a harrowing journey of ‘what ifs,’ forcing us to reflect upon those times we desired something badly and pursued it perhaps recklessly. This was an easy and enjoyable read that left me contemplating my own reasons for hiking in the wild. —Kim Maddin

      Rendezvous at Jumbo Pass

      A Twisting Tale of Wilderness Survival

      by

      Nowick Gray

      ––––––––

      Cougar WebWorks

      Salt Spring Island, BC

      Rendezvous at Jumbo Pass is a true tale of wilderness survival in the Kootenay mountains of British Columbia, Canada. The romantic hiking adventure takes a paranormal twist when a rustic cabin becomes a dream-box of deadly choices.

      Genre categories: action and adventure, creative nonfiction, literary fiction, magic realism, metafiction,  experimental

      Cover design: SelfPubBookCovers.com/RLSather

      Copyright © 2015 by Nowick Gray

      ––––––––

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication 

      Gray, Nowick, 1950-

      [Rendezvous] 

      Rendezvous at Jumbo Pass: a twisting tale of wilderness survival / Nowick 

      Gray. 

      Previously published under title: Rendezvous. 

      Issued in print and electronic formats. 

      ISBN 978-1-5174-0839-8 (paperback).—ISBN 978-1-311-91908-3 (epub) 

      I. Title.  II. Title: Rendezvous. 

      PS8613.R3882R45 2015                         C813'.6                         C2015-906691-3 

      C2015-906692-1 

      Chapter One

      The cabin appears in the distance, nestled beside a half-frozen pond. It’s a scene from an old-fashioned Christmas card—except the cabin’s chimney pipe shows no smoke.

      Looks like we’re the first ones here, I say to Matt. I check my watch again.

      My companion bends forward with the weight of his pack. He rests his hands on his knees, catching his breath. Yeah—what time is it?

      Twenty past three.

      Well, we’re behind schedule from losing our trail. They could have had the same trouble on the other side.

      Yeah; or maybe they got a late start.

      Matt turns his eyes from me toward the cabin. Sweat generated from our last steep climb up the scree slope drips from his limp, wet mustache.

      I start to shiver. It’s the end of June, but at six thousand feet, a sweating body cools quickly. Maybe they’re already in the cabin and there’s no wood; or they just got there and haven’t lit a fire yet.

      We trudge on through wet, foot-deep snow to the cabin. A couple of wooden steps at the entrance are falling apart; otherwise, the rustic structure appears stoutly built, with walls of rough planks supported by a stone foundation.

      I push open the creaking door; wind whips into the single room. The cabin is well equipped, for all its remoteness. A neat pile of split firewood sits stacked beside a little stove. I notice plenty of blankets, sleeping bags, and spare shoes on a drying rack overhead, and four built-in bunks complete with foam mattresses. In the kitchen cupboards we find matches, toilet paper, tea, cocoa, soup packets, and a bag of rice, along with a portable camp stove and fuel, cookware, and dishes.

      Matt unlaces his wet boots and suggests we start a fire to dry our clothes and heat water for tea. Anxious for the arrival of the other party, I tell him to go ahead; I’ll scout around to see if I can see or hear a sign of their approach. He tries to reassure me that they’re probably just running late. I leave him to the stove and take off, with map in hand, for the end of the ridge, calling out and peering down into the dim vastness of the Glacier Creek drainage.

      There is no response to my shouts in the empty wind. Far down the mountainside, the creek streams out from its source ice fields and winds away beyond my sight. Somewhere in the labyrinth of trees and ridges, a trail runs along the slope, veering up for a final ascent to the pass. My wife Faron and three-year-old daughter Suze are now over half an hour late for our long-planned rendezvous at Jumbo Pass. There I stand, hearing the echo of my shouts and gazing at the wilderness, its beauty so desolate and incomplete.

      Chapter Two

      Morning light drew our eyelids slowly open. I pulled Faron closer while we still had the chance.

      Nine weeks, she said in a forlorn whisper. Nine weeks too long.

      As soon as our lips touched, Suze awoke from her bed beside us, right on cue. No turning the clock back now.

      Never had I been away from Faron for longer than a week in our four years together. Now we would have to last four or five weeks at a stretch, until I could arrange a quick trip back home for a couple of days between shifts. The tree planting camp would be a full day’s drive away, in the next valley.

      But when John Harris had called me with a job offer, I told him sure thing. Who wouldn’t, with a half-finished house and a three-year-old to raise? The house was a full forty feet long, but so far, only fourteen feet wide, like an overgrown trailer, or a glorified railway shed. The exposed hallway served as a temporary outer wall,

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