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Don holds a BSEE degree from California State University,
Pomona, and a Masters in Business Economics from Claremont
Graduate University. He is the author of Exploring Vancouver
Island's West Coast and, with his wife, Réanne,
co-authored the acclaimed Exploring the Inside Passage
to Alaska, Exploring the South Coast of British Columbia,
Exploring the North Coast of British Columbia and Exploring
the San Juan and Gulf Islands. Don holds honorary membership
in the International Association of Cape Horners. He
has written several skiing and mountainbiking guidebooks
and, as a father of the sport, was elected to the Mountain
Biking Hall of Fame in Crested Butte, Colorado.
Réanne Hemingway-Douglass holds
a BA degree in French from Pomona College. She attended
Claremont Graduate University and the University of
Grenoble, France. Sailor, writer, cyclist and language
teacher, Réanne's articles have appeared in numerous
outdoor magazines. Her best-selling book, Cape Horn:
One Man's Dream, One Woman's Nightmare, describes pitchpoling
in the Great Southern Ocean and has been published in
French and Italian.
In the 1980s, Réanne led the
first women's bicycling team to cross Tierra del Fuego
at the tip of South America. She is also the principal
author of Mountain Biking the Eastern Sierra's Best
100 Trails. Her articles have appeared in numerous outdoor
magazines, including Pacific Yachting and Cruising World.
Réanne is the chief editor of FineEdge Productions.
Delaine Fragnoli, contributing editor
to Bicycling Magazine, is the co-author of Mountain
Biking Southern California's Best 100 Trails and Mountain
Biking Northern California's Best 100 Trails. She is
past editor of Mountain Biking and Southwest Cycling
magazines. Her free-lance work has appeared in Women's
Sports & Fitness, BIKE, and VeloNews.
Jamie Griffis, a professional bicycle
mechanic, is the author of Terragraphics' Touring the
Los Angeles Area by Bicycle and a co-founder of the
Los Angeles Female Off Road Cycling Enthusiasts (L.A.
FORCE). She is a co-author of Mountainbiking California's
Central Coast Best 100 Trails.
Jim Hasenauer, professor of Speech
Communication at California State University, Northridge,
has been hiking and riding the Santa Monicas for over
20 years. Jim is a co-founder of CORBA (Concerned Off-Road
Bicyclists Association) which represents the interests
of mountain bicyclists in the Santa Monica Mountains.
He is also a member of the Sierra Club and has servee
as the president of IMBA (International Mountain Bicyucling
Association). In his co-authored book, the Santa Monica
Mountains, Jim provides expert trail descriptions, tips
and notes of interest that will enhance your appreciation
of this unique environment. He is co-author of Mountainbiking
the Coast Range: The Santa Monica Mountains.
Mark Langton has been a mountain bike
journalist and advocate for more than 13 years. He has
also been a mountain bike instructor since 1988, teaching
literally thousands of riders the importance of proper
technique and backcountry etiquette. He began riding
mountain bikes in 1983 in the Santa Monica Mountains
of Southern California. In 1985 he began racing and
attained the rank of Expert, garnering a factory sponsorship
from Yeti Cycles and numerous top 10 finishes in national-level
competitions, including fourth overall in the nation
in 1988.
Mark was the editor of "Mountain
Biking Magazine," one of the country’s most
successful mountain bike publications, for over seven
years during the mountain biking boom of the late ‘80s
and early to mid ‘90s. He is also the author of
Golden Books’ "Mountain Biking" and
co-author of Fine Edge.com’s "Mountain Biking
the Santa Monica Mountain’s Best Trails."
As a mountain biking advocate, Mark
has helped shape mountain bike use policy in the largest
urban parkland in the country. He currently sits on
the boards of the Concerned Off-Road Bicyclists Association
(CORBA) and the City of Thousand Oaks’ Conejo
Open Space Trails Advisory Committee (COSTAC). Mark
helped establish and grow the Mountain Bike Unit (MBU)
the nation’s largest volunteer mountain bike backcountry
patrol with more than 100 members which is sponsored
by the National Park Service. He is currently a monthly
cycling columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News and
the Gear Editor at Weider Publications’ Men’s
Fitness Magazine.
Mickey McTigue has been a backcountry
cyclist since 1958. Active in trail building and maintenance,
he leads cycling expeditions in Los Padres National
Forest. He is a co-author of Mountainbiking California's
Central Coast.
R.W. Miskimins is a clinical psychologist
with a consulting practice for adolescents and adults,
as well as a bicycle shop owner in Reno. He, his wife,
and dedicated staff, operate Great Basin Bicycles, a
full-service bicycle business geared to the entire family—recreationists
to racers. Over the past three decades, Miskimins has
published over 60 books and articles on various subjects
ranging from residential treatment for emotionally disturbed
youth to whitewater rafting. Ray has documented his
off-road exploring experiences in the Lake Tahoe Basin
for everyone to enjoy in Lake Tahoe's Top 20 Bike Rides.
Bob Shipley co-authored Guide 10,
Mountain Biking the San Bernardino Mountains with Allen
Thibault. Bob has been an ardent cyclist for more than
40 years starting with his first derailleur bike: a
four-speed Gerindingo built in an Italian prison. After
15 years of working as an engineer, his cycling passion
culminated in ownership and operation of a high-end
bicycle shop on the University of California-Riverside
campus.
Bob currently teaches business Engligh
and computer applications at UCR in the English as a
Foreign Language Department. He still rides his custom
David Hunt titanium mountain bike in the Riverside area.
Robin Stuart, co-author of Northern
California's 100 Best Rides, is a free-lance writer
whose work has appeared in numerous bicycling magazines.
She lives and rides in the San Francisco area.
Mike Troy, co-author of Mountainbiking
California's Central Coast Best 100 Trails is a co-founder
of the Grapevine Mountain Bike Association, and he regularly
performs trail building and maintenance in the Angeles
National Forest.
Kevin Woten pioneered many popular
routes in the Saugus District of the Angeles National
Forest and in the Los Padres National Forest in eastern
Ventura County. He was also a co-founder of the Grapevine
Mountain Bike Association and a member of IMBA's southern
region board of directors. Kevin is a co-author of Mountainbiking
California's Central Coast.
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