Sierraclub.typepad.com Website Review

manning is a hiking guru. at the university of vermont, he researches and teaches park managment i think it’s quite a cross-section, but the ordinary people part of the book is something that martha and i feel strongly about. that’s the main purpose of the book, really: to get people walking more. compared with people in a lot of the countries we’ve visited, not a lot of americans are out there walking. with this book, we’re trying to do something about that, to get people to explore and create. have a strong connection to the john muir trail in particular, which you call one of your top 10 walks in the world. i have a long and de*p relationship with the john muir trail. when i graduated from college, it was 1968, and the vietnam war was raging, and so i joined the coast guard. i enjoyed living in the city, but even more i enjoyed getting out to yosemite. it really convinced me that’s also how i became aware of john muir and the sierra club.  i always get a kick out of hiking above the tree line, of visiting places that i’d been seeing in sierra club calendars for years, thinking, i really want to go there. hiking over john muir pas* and then on to gifford pinchot pas* -- the legacy of american conservation is just written into the landscape. to me, there’s no mountain range that’s more beautiful and friendly and engaging than the sierras. that, combined with the muir legacy, makes the trail my favorite hike. it has been around for a long time, so it’s well marked and well managed. one area where it excels is the permit system.. what makes a good permit system? the only innovation i’m aware of is the grand canyon's rafting permit system, which switched to a. weighted lottery. i should also mention that you profile a hike along the colorado river in your book. that cuts through two national parks and two u.s. forest service areas. it would be daunting if one had to get a permit from those four entities and then had to coordinate the dates. at yosemite in general, they allocate things in a way thats easy for the user, even when its