A Portal Survival Thriller
Lost in
Colorado
Two worlds. One impossible journey. No way back.
Some trails don't lead home.
by Thomas Seidel
Two worlds. One impossible journey. No way back.
Some trails don't lead home.
Every trail has a story.
This one has a door.
Walk through it, if you dare.
Deep in Colorado's San Juan Mountains, two lifelong friends follow an elk trail into the unknown, and step into something that doesn't belong to this world. What follows is a fight for survival in a savage, prehistoric land, and a desperate search to find a way back home.
Some trails don't lead home.
Deep in Colorado's San Juan Mountains, two lifelong friends follow an elk trail into the unknown, and step into something that doesn't belong to this world. While they fight to survive in a savage, prehistoric land ruled by ancient predators and a brutal natural order, a desperate search ignites back home. In the mountains, weather turns deadly. Every clue leads nowhere. And something is hunting them.
Follow the path that became the book, from a kid chasing elk trails to an author who never stopped following them.
Raised on the ranch trails of the West, where a boy learned to read weather and track elk long before he learned to write a sentence.
Years of elk camps in the San Juans with the same handful of friends, the same cold mornings, and the same trails that would one day become fiction.
He met the woman who'd share every mountain and every river with him. Together they've chased sunsets from Colorado to Alaska ever since.
These days the best trips are the ones with a grandson beside him, knee-deep in a river, learning the same patience the mountains once taught him.
Float planes into backcountry lakes and Alaskan rivers, always in search of the next wild place few people ever see.
When he's off the mountain, he's usually got a guitar in hand. Music taught him rhythm; the trail gave him the stories to put to it.
On one more elk trail, deep in the San Juans, a simple question took hold: what if the trail didn't lead where it was supposed to? Lost in Colorado began right there.
Debut novel in hand, Thomas is still out there most weeks, on a river or a ridge, already tracking the next story.
The mountains don't care where you meant to go. They only care whether you find your way back.
Thomas is glad to speak with book clubs, libraries, hunting and fishing groups, and outdoor festivals about wild country, survival, and where his stories come from.
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