"This is the definitive (as well as wonderfully eccentric) guide to the immensity of the southern Sierra... John Muir would be pleased."

– Mike Davis
author of City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear and Planet of Slums


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David has run sled dogs into the Maroon Bells Wilderness, seined for salmon off the Kenai Peninsula, and traveled from the Algerian Sahara to Paris in the back of a Belgian floral delivery van. He has guided cycling tours in France and Spain and a multinational dinosaur-egg hunt in Argentine Patagonia. A graduate of the Writing Program at U.C. Irvine, recipient of the Outdoor Writers Association of California's awards for Best Magazine Feature and Best Freelance Journalism, he has written for the Discovery Channel, the Los Angeles Times Magazine and The New York Times. He lives on the side of a volcano in Mammoth Lakes, California, with his wife, his two young sons, and their illegal migrant canine.

Hawaii:
Paradise & Safe Haven
(NY Times, SF Chronicle)


Rituals: The Last Run
(NY Times)


Bond of Brothers
(NY Times)


Wild Ice
(NY Times)


Squirrels:Damn Cute Menace (pdf)
LA Times Magazine
"First Place Magazine Feature, 2007," Outdoor Writers Association of California

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