Outdoors writer and award-winning author of more than 25 Pacific Northwest guidebooks. Avid hiker, runner, Northwest trails expert and dedicated conservationist.
I love wilderness areas—especially wilderness areas with a large W. In those federally protected areas I am assured that the land I will be hiking or camping in is protected from incompatible uses such as resource extraction, roads, and developments. It will remain untrammeled. No bikes, motorcycles, motorized equipment, drones and other modern day intrusions, too. Federally esta