About the Author
The author, ca. 1971David 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.
Recent Clips:
Paradise and Safe Haven: The Brutocos on Hawaii(NY Times, International Herald Tribune, SF Chronicle)
Rituals: The Last Run(NY Times)
Bond of Brothers in a California Wilderness(NY Times)
Wild Ice(NY Times)
"Damn Cute Menace" (pdf)(Los Angeles Times Magazine)
"First Place Magazine Feature, 2007," Outdoor Writers Association of California
Book Excerpts:
Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada (Countryman Press/W.W. Norton)