About This Web Site!
Questions you might have:
What is the purpose of this Web Site?
- Provide useful hiking, backpacking and wilderness camping information;
you may use the XpertSite/AskMe click on buttons to ask questions
anonymously, or E-Mail me using the link or HikingwithMike@aol.com.
- Provide emergency and survival information to hikers and campers
- Provide useful links to government agencies such as National Park
Services, Forest Services, State Parks, etc. Also, provide links to
commercial businesses exclusively serving the hiking, backpacking, camping and outdoor
enthusiast.
What is my background?
- 30+ years of backpacking, hiking and wilderness camping experience
- Military and civilian survival training and interest
- CPR & First Aid Certified
- Completed Earth Skill's 34 hour Wilderness Skills (primitive skills)
and Plant Uses course in July of 2000.
- Former Park Docent - performed trail maintenance, manned Visitor Center,
and conducted wilderness
hikes for groups up to 30 youths (with additional adults).
- I am based in Central California.
To
obtain HikingwithMike's book, The Complete Hiking, Backpacking &
Wilderness Survival Manual, just send a check or money order for $14.95 to
HikingwithMike, 396 Vester Sted, Solvang, CA 93463. Allow
two to three weeks for delivery. Outside the USA, please add $3.00 to
your order.
Where have I hiked or backpacked?
- Mount Whitney 14,495' elevation
- Death Valley National Park
- California's Lost Coast - northern California
- Sinkyone Wilderness
- Big Sur - Ventana Wilderness
- Los Padres National Forest - Sierra Madre Mountains & San Rafael
Wilderness
- Henry W. Coe State Park
- Ansel Adams Wilderness / Mammoth Back Country
- Yosemite backcountry
- Yosemite - Vernal & Nevada Falls and Glacier Point
- Emigrant Wilderness
- Sequoia National Park
- Sierra National Forest - Dinkey Lakes Wilderness
- Sierra National Forest - Kaiser Wilderness
- Pinnacles National Monument
- Point Lobos
- Garland Regional Park - Monterey
- Big Bear Mountains - Lake Arrowhead
- San Gorgonio Wilderness- San Bernardino
- Grand Canyon National Park - Arizona
- Cleveland National Forest
- Many and various smaller parks and locations throughout California.
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