"Moon Spotlight Washington's Columbia River Gorge Camping & Hiking" is a 140-page compact guide covering the region s best camping and hiking sightsincluding Battle Ground State Park, Castle Rock, and Glacier View Wildernessperfect for campers or hikers looking for a back-country campsite or a place to pitch a tent. Each camp listing has at-a-glance icons that indicate nearby hiking or biking trails, swimming, fishing, boating, canoeing, kayaking and hot springs. You'll also learn what campsites and trails allow dogs. Hiking descriptions include distance, estimated hiking time, and a rating for difficulty. Outdoors writers Tom Stienstra and Scott Leonard provide easy-to-follow maps, and clear driving directions lead campers and hikers to the best of the Olympic Peninsula s wilderness spots. This Spotlight guidebook is excerpted from "Moon Washington Camping" and "Moon Washington Hiking.""

Author Biography

For 30 years, Tom Stienstra s full-time job has been to capture and communicate the outdoor experience. This has led him across Californiahiking, boating, fishing, camping, biking, and flying searching for the best of the outdoors and then writing about it. Tom is the nation s top-selling author of outdoors guidebooks. He has been inducted into the California Outdoor Hall of Fame and has twice been awarded National Outdoor Writer of the Year, newspaper division, by the Outdoor Writers Association of America. He has also been named California Outdoor Writer of the Year five times, most recently in 2007. Tom is the outdoors columnist for the "San Francisco Chronicle;" his articles also appear in newspapers around the country. He broadcasts a weekly radio show on KCBS-San Francisco and hosts an outdoor television show on CBS/CW San Francisco. Tom lives with his wife and sons in Northern California. Scott Leonard spent his childhood summers and falls fishing, skiing, and hunting in the Oregon outdoors. He began hiking and backpacking when he started college at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. He fell in love with the wilderness areas of Washingtonand has never grown tired of pounding out miles of trail. After college, Scott spent several years building and maintaining trails, and teaching others to do the same. He spent a year researching and hiking for "Moon Washington Hiking, " and yet another summer on "Moon Take a Hike Seattle"never has a job been so easy to get up for each morning. In addition to writing, Scott works as an attorney in Portland, Oregon, where he has a successful criminal defense practice."