"A man to ride the river with."
                -Louis L'Amour

"Slim's writing would make Hemingway proud and
Jack London envious."
                -Max Evans

Welcome To SlimRandles.com

It's hard to tell where the outdoors leaves off and the writing begins in the life of
Slim Randles, because they both have been entwined and inseparable for decades.  
When Slim wasn't in the Newsroom of a newspaper- either as an editor, reporter,
or columnist- he was in the open, getting cold, wet,  burned by the sun, starving and
otherwise having a great time.  He has been a hunting guide in New Mexico and
Alaska, made the first solo dogsled trip across Alaska's Arctic Slope, Paddled a
canoe down the Yukon River, built a log cabin 12 miles to the nearest road, and
drove a dog team in the first Iditarod Race.  He has also packed mules and roped
calves in a rodeo.  And he has written about it in newspaper stories, magazine
articles, and books, both fiction and non-fiction. He was a popular columnist for the
Anchorage Daily News and The Albuquerque Journal, and now writes a
syndicated newspaper column, "Home Country".  He is also  columnist for New
Mexico Magazine  and lives both in Albuquerque, and in a small cabin with a huge
porch in very nearly the geographical center of the state.  He's still young enough to
start his own colts,  and old enough to know better.  His coonhound thinks he's
wonderful!