About the Author

For over 30 years, Tom Stienstra's full-time job has been to capture and communicate the outdoor experience. This has led him across California , fishing, hiking, camping, boating, 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 appear on sfgate.com and in newspapers around the country. He also broadcasts a weekly radio show on KCBS-San Francisco.Tom lives in Northern California. You can contact him directly via the website tomstienstra.com. His guidebooks include:Moon California Hiking (with Ann Marie Brown)Moon California FishingMoon California Recreational Lakes & RiversCalifornia WildlifeMoon Northern California Cabins & CottagesMoon Northern California CampingMoon Northern California Hiking (with Ann Marie Brown)Moon Oregon CampingMoon Pacific Northwest CampingMoon Washington CampingMoon West Coast RV CampingTom Stienstra's Bay Area Recreation