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For 30 years, Tom Stienstra's full-time job has been to capture and communicate the outdoor experience. This has led him across California--hiking, 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. Zusammenfassung "Moon Spotlight Oregon's Southern Cascades Camping & Hiking" is a 150-page compact guide covering the region's best camping and hiking sights--including John Dellenback Dunes and Oaks Bottom--perfect 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 Sean Patrick Hill provide easy-to-follow maps! and clear driving directions lead campers and hikers to the best wilderness spots in Oregon's Southern Cascades. This Spotlight guidebook is excerpted from "Moon Oregon Camping" and "Moon Oregon Hiking." ...