RORY SCHWINN – Patron Saint of Backpackers / BI Staff

• Where were you born?
  A: Trailer Park
• Favorite Food?
  A: Spam
• What's on your iPod?
  A: Huh?
• Favorite Books?
  A: Anything by: Aldo Leopold, Rudolfo Anaya, Jack Kerouac, Don DeLillo, Jim Thompson, Richard Feynman, John Muir, Ian Frazier, Kinky Friedman, Edward Abbey, Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, Sherman Alexie, William Burroughs, Alan Lightman
• Favorite Movies?
  A: To Have and Have Not, Five Easy Pieces, In A Lonely Place, MASH, Leaving Las Vegas, Jerimiah Johnson, King of Hearts, Stand By Me, Reservoir Dogs, El Bruto, Los Olvidados, Crossfire, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Wings of Desire, Harold and Maude, Out Of The Past, The Wizard of OZ, His Kind of Woman, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, The Missouri Breaks, Casablanca, When Strangers Marry
• I can eat a lot of...
  A: Mountain House freeze dry
• Pet
  A: Ice Axe, Himalaya Pickle / Modell Kuno Rainer
• Favorite trail/climb?
  A: The one I have yet to do.
• What is your dream vacation/trip?
  A: Northwest Yunnan, China
• Who's one of your hero's and why?
  A: Howard Hawkes; His women...
• I can't live without...
  A: I love the smell of deet in the morning. The smell, you know that deet smell, the whole mountain. Smelled like... victory.
• Favorite adult beverage?
  A: Mescal