Download or read book On Top of Spoon Mountain written by John Treadwell Nichols and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Kepler wants to climb Spoon Mountain with his grown son and daughter on his sixty-fifth birthday in three weeks. Ben and Miranda, think he's crazy. For starters, Spoon Mountain is almost the tallest alpine peak in New Mexico. Jonathan's health is terrible. They once shared halcyon days at Spoon Mountain, but can they revisit the past? Does Spoon Mountain offer redemption, or annihilation? And why is getting there so laden with pratfalls?