Below is the News Release for Eric's upcoming slideshow and talk. Eric is an old friend of Hiking Michigan and an extremely talented writer. As you will see when reading the News release below. I am personally heading to Ann Arbor for this gathering and I hope to see many of you there as well. The Botanical Gardens are a wonderful setting for this gethering.
Rob Golda
Ann Arbor November 17 7:30pm
Join us for a slide show presentation with award-winning environmental writer and noted hiker Eric Hansen. His theme will be:
The Poetry and Practicalities of Hiking Michigans Upper Peninsula
Hansen is the author of Hiking Michigans Upper Peninsula A Guide to the Greatest Hiking Adventures in the U.P. Nine hundred miles of memorable hiking research went into that project. He found miles of quiet Lake Superior shoreline, thumping waterfalls and sparkling cascades, and high rock balconies with knock-your-socks off views that stretch 50 miles and more
Also a well-known advocate for U.P. conservation causes, he has highlighted the U.P.s rich natural heritage in adventure features for Backpacker Magazine, the op-ed pages of our regions leading journals, and in numerous public radio interviews.
In 2006 the Outdoor Writers Association of America awarded him first prize for conservation newspaper writing for his Chicago Tribune op-ed essay (available at www.eric-hansen.com)highlighting the U.P.s iconic coaster brook trout and the threat of metallic sulfide mining there. His slide shows are popular twice drawing overflow crowds of more than 300 people.
Widely traveled, he is a veteran of 28 treks to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, successful ascents of most of the high peaks in Glacier National Park and a mellow and memorable telemark-style ski descent of Colorados highest peak, Mount Elbert.
This event is part of the monthly gathering of the Huron Valley Group of the Sierra Club.
Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N. Dixboro Road, Ann Arbor
http://michigan.sierraclub.org/huron/index.asp
Further information on Eric Hansen, U.P. essays, public radio audio clips below:
http://www.eric-hansen.com
http://wilderness.org/content/omnibus-tour-beaver-basin
Haunting Beauty of Beaver Basin Has Drawn Midwesterners for Years Wilderness Society essay highlighting Pictured Rocks National Lakeshores Beaver Basin Wilderness Proposal during the successful Congressional campaign to pass the Omnibus Public Lands Bill of 2009
http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/29549204.html
Headwaters No Place for Toxic New Mining Milwaukee Journal Sentinel op-ed addressing metallic sulfide mining threat to the pristine waters of the U.P. and all downstream.
http://www.wuwm.com/programs/lake_effect/view_at10.php?articleid=57
In a January 20, 2006 audio file WUWMs Jane Hampden interviews Eric Hansen on his then brand new U.P. guidebook. This interview is a broad, reflective look at the iconic landscape we know as the Upper Peninsula. About 14 minutes long.
(drag the audio bar to the 17 minute, 50 second mark to begin Eric Hansens segment)