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100 Hikes in Northwest Oregon & Southwest Washington, 3rd Edition (1-minute video)

Updated every year, the Portland / Vancouver area's favorite guidebook keeps getting better, with a dozen new or dramatically changed hiking trails in the Mt. St. Helens, Columbia Gorge, and Mt. Hood areas. The book also now includes campground and cabin rental info and a full-color wildflower identification guide!

256 pages, 5-1/2"x8-1/2", 107 maps, 216 b/w photos, 80 color photos. ISBN 978-0967783070

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100 Hikes in the Central Oregon Cascades: Third Edition (1-minute video)

Updated with a dozen new hikes, this classic guide to Oregon's recreational heartland now includes 16 pages of color photos, campground & cabin rental information, a wildflower identification guide, and a guide to hot springs. Revised every year.

256 pages, 5-1/2"x8-1/2", 108 maps, 216 b/w photos, 90 color photos, ISBN 978-0967783062

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Cabin Fever: Notes From a Part-Time Pioneer (1-minute video)

Rich with humor and natural history, this memoir of building a log cabin in the wilds of Oregon's Coast Range takes readers to a warm world of kerosene lamplight, wood stoves, and ghost stories. Written by a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in creative nonfiction, Cabin Fever recounts 25 summers of back-to-the-earth adventure -- and also solves a murder mystery that had haunted the author's roadless homestead. Includes 38 pen-and-ink illustrations by Janell Sorensen.

280 pages, 6"x9", 1 map, 35 b/w illustrations, ISBN 978-09677830584

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Oregon Trips & Trails (1-minute video)

Lavishly illustrated with more than 800 full-color photographs and maps, this is the easiest to use and most visually compelling Oregon guide ever, featuring 100 star attractions worth a journey, the state's 65 most beautiful trails, and 250 places to stay -- campgrounds, bed & breakfasts, and quaint hotels.

288 pages, 5-1/4"x8-1/2", 100 maps, 700 color photos, ISBN 978-0967783038

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100 Hikes/Travel Guide: Eastern Oregon, 2nd Edition (1-minute video)

A complete guide to the trails within a two-hour drive of the spectacular Crater Lake, Rogue River, and Mt. Shasta areas, this book includes paths for kids, backpackers, equestrians, and mountain bikers.

240 pages, 5-1/2"x8-1/2", 107 maps, 216 b/w photos, ISBN 978-0967783046

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100 Hikes/Travel Guide: Oregon Coast & Coast Range, 2nd Edition

This complete coastal guide describes hiking trails, campgrounds, museums, towns, and lighthouses from Washington's Long Beach south to California's Redwoods. The second edition went out of print in November 2008, but a completely revised third edition with a dozen new hikes will be available in March 2009.

256 pages, 5-1/2"x8-1/2", 122 maps, 188 b/w photos, 80 color photos, ISBN 978-096778302X

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Hiking Oregon's History (1-minute video)

Hang on for a rollicking tour of Oregon's grandest museum -- the great outdoors! Recounted in a fresh style that's fun for armchair travelers and hikers alike, this guidebook tells the stories behind 56 of the state's most scenic historic sites, including Indian battlegrounds, gold mining ghost towns, wagon train routes, and haunted lighthouses. If you get caught up in the stories, boxed inserts tell how you can drive to the site and take a short, easy hike to see the place for yourself.

320 pages, 6"x9", 116 b/w photos, 58 maps, ISBN 978-0961815272

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The Case of Einstein's Violin (1-minute video)

William L. Sullivan's light-hearted mystery novel is just the book to take on vacation. In the story, an Oregon woman inherits Albert Einstein's violin case, sells it on eBay, and suddenly finds herself dodging international spies. A tip that her long-dead father may be alive sends her racing through Europe to discover her family's past -- and a lost formula for quantum gravity. You'll learn a bit about Einstein along the way because the physics concepts in the book have been vetted by Sullivan's son, an astrophysicist at CalTech, You'll also follow the characters on a travel adventure from the Greek islands and the Italian Alps to the small town in Germany where Einstein was born. To learn more about the settings used in "The Case of Einstein's Violin," you can check out the author's favorite places to go hiking in Europe.

322 pages, 5-1/2"x8-1/2", ISBN 978-0967783089

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A Deeper Wild (1-minute video)

William L. Sullivan's historical novel tracks down one of the frontier West's most controversial characters -- Joaquin Miller, the swashbuckling pony express rider who won international fame as the "Poet of the Sierras." Sullivan tells the tale in a Louis L'Amour style that suits the wild, Western subject, although notes at the back of book reveal that the story is 95 percent true. Miller really did shoot a sheriff, have two wives at once, and rise to fame as the bestselling American poet of the age.

464 pages, 6"x9", 26 illustrations, 1 map, ISBN 978-0967783003

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Oregon Map & Travel Guide, 2nd Edition (1-minute video)

Awarded the nation's highest honor for cartography, master mapmaker David Imus has prepared a completely updated edition of his popular Oregon Map, complete with a full-color travel guide by William L. Sullivan on the flip side featuring 250 of the state's top destinations. Now printed on water-resistant, rip-resistant paper.

27"x39.5" flat size, 6.6"x9.3" folded. Shipped folded. 50 color photos, ISBN 978-0966534535

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Exploring Oregon's Wild Areas, 3rd Edition

The adventurer's guide to Oregon's backwoods, this book by William L. Sullivan covers 68 wilderness and wild areas, describing 670 hikes, more than 100 backpack trips, and 170 ski/snowshoe routes, as well as routes for rock climbers, whitewater rafters, kayakers, and canoeists. Currently unavailable from the previous publisher, The Mountaineers, the book will be released in a completely updated, expanded form as the Atlas of Oregon Wilderness by the Navillus Press in April 2009.

368 pages, 5-1/2"x8-1/2", 72 maps, 119 b/w photos, ISBN 978-0898867932

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Listening for Coyote (1-minute video)

This classic Oregon adventure is the true story of William L. Sullivan's 1,361-mile solo backpacking trek across Oregon in 1985. Along the way, Sullivan confronts blizzards, a marijuana grower, and the meaning of wilderness. Chosen one of Oregon's "100 Books" by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission, the book has been reprinted by the Oregon State University Press.

256 pages, 6"x9", paperback, 1 map, 28 b/w photos, ISBN 978-0870715267

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A Deeper Wild

Joaquin Miller in about 1872.

Table of Contents - A Deeper Wild

Introduction 9

PART ONE: PAQUITA 11

Illustrations 187

PART TWO: MINNIE 197

Epilogue 453

Notes 455

Acknowledgments 461

Works by Joaquin Miller 462

Biographies of Joaquin Miller 463

About the Author 464

Introduction - A Deeper Wild

Joaquin Miller, the American West's first world-renowned writer, galloped to fame in the England of 1872 as the swashbuckling 'Poet of the Sierras.'

Miller set the London literary scene on its ear by appearing for poetry readings outfitted with a sombrero and spurs, howling like a coyote. He amazed Browning and Tennyson with tales of dusky Indian maidens and lassoed bears. He was introduced to Queen Victoria as the frontier's greatest writer of all time. His success set the stage for Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and others to try their literary luck abroad -- and inspired Buffalo Bill Cody to capitalize on the public's hunger for flamboyant frontiersmen.

The most astonishing thing about Miller is that he was not lying. He had in fact been an outlaw, pony express rider, gold miner, county judge, Indian fighter, Civil War pacifist, newspaper editor, and horse thief in the frontier West. And while this resume bedazzled audiences in Europe, the West itself was in an uproar over a more serious scandal: Miller had married a popular Oregon poet without admitting he already had an Indian wife and daughter in the California wilderness. When his white wife found out, she joined forces with legendary woman's rights activist Susan B. Anthony and denounced him from the stage -- becoming the first pioneer Oregon woman to lecture in public outside a church.

In writing this historical novel, I have followed the record as closely as possible. Where facts exist, the book is an accurate history. Where gaps in the record cry out for speculation, the book is a novel. The newspaper articles, legal documents, and poems quoted within the book are sometimes shortened, but are otherwise verbatim. Chapter-by-chapter notes in the appendix identify sources and separate historical fact from fiction.

My intent has been neither to write a vilification, as has been done by Miller's more vindictive biographers, nor to compose a glorification, as has been attempted by Miller's apologists. I offer instead the story of a fascinating man and the courageous women who molded his life.

Hiking Oregon's History

The Watchman fire lookout at Crater Lake National Park.

Table of Contents - Hiking Oregon's History

Chapter I: THE FIRST TRACKS

Chapter II: ANGRY SPIRITS

Chapter III: THE EXPLORERS

Chapter IV: THE SETTLERS

Chapter V: WAGON WHEELS

Chapter VI: GOLD!

Chapter VII: TRAILS OF TEARS

Chapter VIII: THE IRON HORSE

Chapter IX: BEACONS TO SEA

Chapter X: BOOM YEARS

Chapter XI: THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE

Chapter XII: THE FIRE LINE

Chapter XIII: RAGS AND RICHES

Chapter XIV: WAR!

Chapter XV: THE LEGACY

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Hike #10: Cape Disappointment

Far from being disappointed, Lewis and Clark celebrated when they first sighted the Pacific Ocean from Cape Disappointment, a dramatic headland on the Washington side of the Columbia River. Those stalwart explorers had trekked nearly 4000 miles across the continent. Today the trail up Cape Disappointment is still inspiring, but the hike is much shorter. It also features a number of additional historic attractions, including a lighthouse, an artillery bunker, and a museum.

Considering that the Columbia River is seven miles wide at its mouth, explorers to the Oregon Coast had failed to discover this "Great River of the West" for a surprisingly long time. Neither Drake nor Juan de Fuca noticed it on their voyages in the late 1500s. The second flurry of sea explorations in the late 1700s also had bad luck. Juan Perez piloted Spanish ships along the coast here in both 1774 and 1775. The second time, steering Bruno de Heceta's vessel, he reported a bay here that he thought might be a river. But the crew was sick with scurvy and there was no time to investigate. Three years later Cook sailed by without even reporting a bay.

By 1788, freelance fur trading ships were routinely plying the coast. British captain John Meares, sailing under a Portuguese flag of convenience, stumbled into a storm here and desperately sought a harbor. He fled toward the Columbia River opening "with every encouraging expectation" that it would be the great river of legend. But breakers on the river's shallow bar convinced him he must be mistaken. Angrily, he named the river mouth Deception Bay, and the nearby headland Cape Disappointment....

100 Hikes in the Central Oregon Cascades

South Sister from the Green Lakes.

Table of Contents - 100 Hikes in the Central Oregon Cascades

SANTIAM FOOTHILLS

MOUNT JEFFERSON

BEND AREA

THE THREE SISTERS

MCKENZIE FOOTHILLS

WILLAMETTE FOOTHILLS

WILLAMETTE PASS

All-Accessible Hikes in the Area

100 More Hikes in the Area

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Hike #4: Opal Creek

Opal Creek's ancient forest, on the edge of the Bull of the Woods Wilderness, was thrust to fame in the 1980s by controversy over Forest Service logging proposals. National television crews and thousands of visitors hiked to Jawbone Flats' rustic mining camp and scrambled over a rugged "bear trail" to view the endangered old-growth groves towering above this creek's green pools. By the time Opal Creek finally won Wilderness protection in 1996 an improved path had been built to make the area more hiker-friendly. The new trail shortcuts from the Little North Santiam River to Opal Creek, bypassing Jawbone Flats.

Start by driving east from Salem on North Santiam Highway 22 for 23 miles to Mehama's second flashing yellow light....

100 Hikes / Travel Guide

Eastern Oregon

The Wallowa Mountains from downtown Joseph.

Table of Contents - 100 Hikes/Travel Guide: Eastern Oregon

COLUMBIA PLATEAU

CENTRAL OREGON

OCHOCO MOUNTAINS

STRAWBERRY MOUNTAIN

BLUE MOUNTAINS - SOUTH

BLUE MOUNTAINS - NORTH

HELLS CANYON

WALLOWA MOUNTAINS

HIGH DESERT

STEENS MOUNTAIN

OWYHEE RIVER

Barrier-Free Trails

100 More Hikes in Eastern Oregon

Index

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Hike #8: Badlands

The badlands just east of Bend are a lonely desert labyrinth of jumbled rock and sandy openings. Among the surprises in this maze are passageways atop fortress-shaped Flatiron Rock and a cave in the dry channel of a prehistoric river.

The fresh-looking lava here erupted 10,000 years ago, puddled up in a prairie, and then buckled into thousands of ten-foot-tall pressure ridges -- in much the same way that paint can wrinkle when it dries. The low spots filled with volcanic ash after Mt. Mazama's cataclysmic eruption powdered the area 7700 years ago.

Start by driving 16 miles east of Bend...

100 Hikes in Southern Oregon

Lemolo Falls on the North Umpqua River.

Table of Contents - 100 Hikes in Southern Oregon

UPPER UMPQUA RIVER

DIAMOND AND CRATER LAKES

UPPER ROGUE RIVER

SOUTHERN CASCADES

EASTERN SISKIYOUS

WESTERN SISKIYOUS

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

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100 More Hikes in S Oregon

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Hike #80: Illinois River Falls

After crossing a spectacular suspension footbridge 100 feet above the green-pooled Illinois River, this hike follows a bedrock riverbank to a roaring waterfall. Although this area was near the center of the massive Biscuit Fire of 2002, nearly all of the large trees here survived -- with their lower limbs neatly pruned as if by a maintenance crew. The flames mostly crept along the forest floor, cleaning out brush, poison oak, small trees, and moss.

To find the trailhead from Grants Pass...

100 Hikes/Travel Guide

Oregon Coast & Coast Range

Neahkahnie Mountain from Os West State Park.

Table of Contents - 100 Hikes/Travel Guide: Oregon Coast & Coast Range

NORTH COAST & Coast Range

Long Beach, Astoria, Seaside, Tillamook, Neskowin

CENTRAL COAST & Coast Range

Lincoln City, Newport, Waldport, Yachats, Florence, Reedsport

SOUTH COAST & Klamaths

Coos Bay, Bandon, Port Orford, Gold Beach, Brookings, Crescent City, Redwoods

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Hike #7: Tillamook Head

Tillamook Head rises 1000 feet from the ocean, with jagged capes and rocky islands. The Lewis and Clark expedition crossed this formidable headland in 1806 to buy the blubber of a stranded whale from Indians at Cannon Beach. At a viewpoint along the way Clark marveled, "I behold the grandest and most pleasing prospect which my eyes ever surveyed."

The headland itself is a tilted remnant of a massive, 15-million-year-old Columbia River basalt flow. Incredibly, the lava welled up near Idaho, flooded down the Columbia Gorge, and spread along the seashore to this point. A mile to sea is Tillamook Rock, a bleak island with a lighthouse that operated from 1881 to 1957. Nicknamed "Terrible Tilly," the light was repeatedly overswept by winter storms that dashed water, rocks, and fish into the lantern room 150 feet above normal sea level. The island was finally bought by funereal entrepreneurs who bring in urns of cremated remains by helicopter.

From Highway 101, take the north exit for Cannon Beach and....

100 Hikes in Northwest Oregon

Mt. Hood from the Timberline Trail at Elk Cove.

Table of Contents - 100 Hikes in Northwest Oregon

PORTLAND AREA

SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON

COLUMBIA GORGE

MOUNT HOOD -- WEST

MOUNT HOOD -- EAST

CLACKAMAS FOOTHILLS

Barrier-Free Trails in NW Oregon

107 More Hikes in NW Oregon

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Hike #67: Mazama Trail

A diamond in the rough, this spectacular new trail loops around Cape Horn, a landmark bluff towering above the Columbia River on the Washington side of the Gorge. The path visits waterfalls, woodland wildflowers, clifftop viewpoints, and even a train tunnel. The Columbia Land Trust, a local non-profit group, bought land and secured rights-of-way to make this public trail possible. Volunteers built the tread, so forgive them if it's a little narrow in spots. Wear boots and long pants.

To drive here from Vancouver take Highway 14 east...