Presentation in Everett, WA for the Everett Mountaineers tomorrow

Quickly wanted to remind everyone that I will be in Everett, WA tomorrow night to give a talk to the Everett Mountaineers. This presenting at the Everett Mountaineers monthly branch meeting (tomorrow night, 7:00PM) will have me giving a talk rich with photography and goofy stories on my experiences doing Day Hiking-Central Cascades. Check out the Everett Mountaineers website HERE for full details, and if you can't make it maybe I'll see you at the Everett Public Library on April 25th or March 7th for my other upcoming talks in your neighborhood. Hope to see you there!

Tacoma event coming up next Tuesday

It's time to start visiting the South Puget Sound areas in a series of presentations coming up and first up is already upon us this coming Tuesday evening! I hope to see a number of you drop by to visit with me at the Tacoma Library main library where I'll be doing a presentation in the Olympic Room on Day Hiking-Central Cascades. I'm sure I'll share some stories of the areas that play "backyard" to the Tacoma area such as the South Cascades and Mount Rainier also! Books will be available after the presentation via a bookseller being represented at the library and I'll have backup books in case they don't bring copies of all of them :) I'll be with Craig at the Tacoma REI in September and also am in the midst of arranging a presentation with the Olympia Library soon.

So break away from the heat and cool off in the library this Tuesday evening, August 4th, in Tacoma! More details at their website http://www.tpl.lib.wa.us/Page.aspx?hid=50.

Spider Meadows and Backpacker Magazine

Many of you know I do mapping work for Backpacker Magazine where I get GPS routes mapped out with data that I then write up details of a full trip. The current August 2009 issue of Backpacker went one step further where they used one of the routes I mapped for them as a special insert segment "Rip and Go" with details you need to go enjoy a special day hiking - and best deal of all was to see a 1/2 page photo used as artwork to accompany the piece. A good day to look in the mail....

Gallery showing June-July 2009 in the Snoqualmie Valley

Hello to many friends and acquaintances in and near the lovely Snoqualmie Valley.

I’m honored to invite you to drop by lovely downtown Fall City at the Fall City Roadhouse & Inn tomorrow June 3rd between 5:00-7:00pm. The wonderful owners of this cozy establishment are kicking off my two-month showing of “Wildlife and Wilderness” with a fun artist reception and viewing of the 30+ framed prints throughout their walls.

http://www.fcroadhouse.com/

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I hope you can come say hello! If not, don’t forget I’ll be there in two weeks on the evening of June 16th for a 7:00pm presentation on the stories behind my latest guidebook project for The Mountaineers Books, “Day Hiking-Central Cascades” that just was released. An hour of images and stories from this latest effort!Thanks again for your time and support!

Revisiting Issaquah - time for another book presentation!

Before I know it Thursday will sneak up on me this week so I had better bring it up now or I'll forget myself! Silly holidays on Mondays - makes me forget what day of the week it is during the rest of the week! But it's true, Thursday I'll be revisiting Issaquah and giving a book presentation about the newly released Day Hiking-Central Cascades guidebook. This one is for the monthly meeting of the Foothills Branch of The Mountaineers, in cooperation with the King County Library at the KCLS Service Center off Newport Way. You can read more information at the website here, or get the info from the "Upcoming Events" listing to the right of this blog for any and all future appearances that I have slated.

If you can't make it, I'll be following up this in just two weeks locally for the Snoqualmie Valley communities in Fall City. Many south Puget Sound area events are slated for June and July as well - hope to see the faces of many excited outdoors people ready to spend a summer hiking our trails!

(photos: View toward Buck Mountain from the Carne Mountain trail; fall visit views at Larch Lake)

Step right up to the Issaquah REI tonight

Say, in case you think about doing something like and evening walk or some time in your garden this evening, don't bother. It'll be raining anyhow! Instead, why not come on in to the REI in Issaquah and join myself and my friend Craig Romano as we'll be presenting a talk on the newly released Day Hiking - Central Cascades title that just came out a couple of weeks ago! I'll attempt to put smiles on faces with many images of our adventures, and I'm sure Craig will have many good stories to amuse you with as well. Hope to see some of you there tonight!

If you can't make it, I'm doing another Issaquah presentation in two weeks for the Mountaineers Foothills branch. See details over to the right column of this blog text.

(photos: autumn view across Minotaur Lake; view from Garland Peak toward Buck Mountain and Glacier Peak)

It's out! Let Day Hiking begin in the Central Cascades!

At last, two years after I started hiking around the regions of Whidbey Island, the Stevens Pass corridor area, Lake Wenatchee/Lake Chelan/Icicle Creek areas, and much more...the last book of the full six-pack of Day Hiking titles is now available and published! Day Hiking-Central Cascades was a wonderful two-year project with my good friend and author Craig Romano. We shared numerous days hiking and talking together and even a full 4-day trip up to Stehekin in spring 2008 together which still is a highlight of this project for me! I hope many others are as pleased with the outcome of this 320 page book as I am. You can order it from the Mountaineers Books, Amazon.com, from booksellers around the area, or even from me if you contact me. I hope to see many of you at upcoming presentations which will continue throughout 2009 and into 2010! And while I'm beaming here today....keep a smile on your face as well :)