In April of 2025, longtime local Bill Gardner decided to write a book he had long been thinking about. Less than a year later, in November of 2025, Gardner self-published his book Moon Over McKinley, which chronicles a mountaineering expedition that a group of Silverton people did in April and May of 1978.
Gardner was the expedition leader of a local group of 7 to start, but ultimately 5 Silverton …
