Doug Hiser is a multi-talented professional visual artist, author, poet, athlete,lover of nature, conservationist,and fantastical storyteller of myth and legend. Karate, weightlifting, soccer, football, swimming in wild rivers, climbing dangerous cliffs, catching snakes and running from mad wasps, the man experiences the outdoors world and has, so far, lived to bring us amazing stories of exaggeration and beautiful emotion. He is the surprise hidden inside a giant birthday cake!