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My New Book on Dispersed Camping and Boondocking Now Available!

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Camp for Free: Dispersed Camping & Boondocking on America's Public Lands book cover. Free camping in the United States.Do you love camping in solitude out in the beauty of nature? Then check out my latest book Camp for Free: Dispersed Camping & Boondocking on America’s Public Lands.

For now, it’s only for sale on Amazon, as both a 155-page paperback and as a Kindle ebook.

Click the button, or click here to order on Amazon.

There’s plenty of details on the Amazon book page, and you can find out even more here at Northern California Hiking Trails at the Camp for Free: Dispersed Camping & Boondocking on America’s Public Lands page.

I’ve been doing dispersed camping for over 30 years, always combined with hiking, and I absolutely love it.

Hikers Not Social Distancing During the Coronavirus Pandemic: My Unsettling Experience

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Bad social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic: two hikers walk too close to another hiker on the Lower Table Rock Trail in Southern Oregon.

I hiked the Lower Table Rock Trail in Southern Oregon on Friday, March 20. Sadly, most hikers were NOT doing the social distancing necessary to slow the spread of the coronavirus.Note: by Friday, March 20, 2020, all Americans should have known … [Continue reading]

Interested in Lassen Volcanic National Park Geology? New Book Has All the Details…

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Geology of the Lassen Country book cover. Written by geologists R. Forrest Hopson and Michael A. Clynne, and published by Backcountry Press.

If you're like me, when you're hiking the trails or driving the roads of Lassen Volcanic National Park, you often wonder about the geology of what you see: types of volcanoes, types of lava -- and just exactly how did glaciers affect the … [Continue reading]

Hiking Redwood National & State Parks

Hike peaceful redwood groves and rugged coastline: more info.

Day Hiking: Mount Shasta, Lassen & Trinity Alps

Day Hiking Mount Shasta, Lassen & Trinity Alps Regions. Includes trails in other regions of Northern California: Castle Crags, Russian Wilderness, Marble Mountain Wilderness, Lava Beds National Monument, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Lassen National Forest, and the Redding area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All my favorite hikes in my home territory! Details here.

100 Classic Hikes: Northern California

Check out the new fourth edition of 100 Classic Hikes in Northern California. Completely updated!