A true-life account of youth, skiing, ambition, fear, and self-discovery in the mountains of Alaska and beyond.
Running From Ghosts is about a young man chasing speed, meaning, identity, and something just beyond reach. Set against the immense snowfields, resorts, backcountry routes, and personal turning points of a life shaped by mountain culture, the book moves with the force of a journal, memoir, confession, and wilderness meditation all at once.
It is raw, searching, and unguarded. It is about the ghosts people run from, the ones they create, and the ones that wait patiently until the body finally slows down.
Mountain memoirs, ski culture, Alaska adventure, coming-of-age stories, raw personal writing, outdoor risk, and reflective nonfiction with a sharp edge.
An adventurous, reflective collection of stories about Alaska, British Columbia, family, work, mountain sports, danger, and the strange wisdom earned through hard living.
In Secrets of Alaska (and other places), JC Young widens the lens. The book moves through fishing, skiing, biking, chainsaws, house-building, trail work, fatherhood, wilderness labor, and the long pull of Alaska on a life that keeps trying to settle elsewhere.
It is funny, sharp, intense, and unexpectedly tender. Beneath every wild episode is a deeper question: what makes a person stay, leave, return, risk, build, remember, and keep going?
Adventure essays, Alaska stories, outdoor memoirs, family-centered nonfiction, wilderness work, mountain biking, skiing, fishing, blue-collar survival, and honest storytelling with grit and humor.
A dark, mythic, supernatural adventure set against the cold beauty and danger of Alaska.
With StarLight over David, JC Young turns his mountain-born imagination toward fiction. The result is a strange and gripping story where Alaska’s wilderness becomes the stage for old forces, haunted histories, spiritual danger, and one man’s confrontation with fear, power, and the unknown.
The book blends adventure, horror, myth, historical echoes, and survival storytelling into a world that feels both vast and claustrophobic. Under the stars, in the snow, and in the silence between human beings and whatever watches from beyond, Young builds a story that refuses to behave like ordinary fiction.
Supernatural thrillers, Alaska fiction, dark adventure, mythic horror, wilderness suspense, historical echoes, spiritual danger, and stories where the landscape feels alive.
