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To Greg Speicher, without whose love and support writing this book would not have been possible

Acknowledgments

I MUST BEGIN BY ACKNOWLEDGING my first editor at Menasha Ridge Press, Russell Helms, who offered me the amazing opportunity to spend the better part of the past year hiking around Northern California and call it work. Russell, I can’t thank you enough for offering me such an incredible “job.” I must also thank my second editor at Menasha Ridge, Molly Merkle, whose editing expertise, thoughtful questions, and perspective greatly improved the content of my hike descriptions. Her friendliness and positive attitude helped ease the stress associated with finishing a book. I am deeply grateful as well to author Jeffrey Schaffer, whose books on the Pacific Crest Trail helped me immensely with my research.

While hiking and writing are second nature to me, mapping is not (despite that geography degree from Humboldt State University). I owe the accuracy and detail of these maps to Menasha Ridge cartography guru Scott McGrew and also to my father, Ben Lautner, who spent one very long day with me at the computer working out the bugs of my GPS unit and mapping software. My dad’s curiosity about and interest in all that I do have been a driving force in helping me complete this book, and to him I am forever grateful. My mom, Carol Lautner, has also been an enormous fountain of inspiration; without her creative license on life and the dreams she instilled in me as a child (while we took long walks on the beaches of Lake Michigan), I may never have realized this dream.