Favorite Dog Hikes in and Around Los Angeles is a wonderful trail guide providing accurate and detailed trail descriptions, mileages, estimated round-trip completion times, a pattern for making custom canine hiking boots, essential hiking equipment, trail courtesy and hazards, as well as historic details for some of the most beautiful areas in the Santa Monica and San Gabriel Mountains - all tailored for canine hiking. Dog-friendly hikes include Palo Comado and Cheeseboro Canyons, and Paramount Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains; Arroyo Seco, Haines Canyon, Mt. Lowe, Mt. Lukens, Strawberry Peak, Mt. Williamson, Mt. Lewis and Sunset Peak in the San Gabriel Mountains. Now you and your dog can take to the hills and enjoy the freedom the local mountains have to offer with Favorite Dog Hikes In and Around Los Angeles.

Favorite Dog Hikes In and Around Los Angeles

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Benti, Wynne

Pets & Animal Care

Spotted Dog Press, Inc.

Recommended by the U.S. Forest Service and in print for over 40 years, Climbing Mt. Whitney is the guide to climbing the highest peak in California. Climbing Mt. Whitney describes how to climb Whitney as a dayhike, backpack, rock climb or as an evening hike by moonlight. Technical climbing routes on Whitney's East Face are described with Norman Clyde's own account of the first ascent up the magnificent East Face. 
Many books try to copy the 40 year success of Climbing Mt. Whitney, locally produced in Bishop, California. Don't be fooled by the paid reviewers' comments on the back covers of the other publishers books! Climbing Mt. Whitney is the original guide to the best climbing on Whitney!

Climbing Mt. Whitney

Travel

Wheelock, Walt

Specialty Travel

It was 1943. In Yosemite National Park, the magnificent Ahwahnee Hotel closed its doors to tourists, transformed into a temporary Naval convalescent hospital. Wartime shortages forced the rationing of gasoline, sugar, and film. Living with his wife, Virginia Best Adams and their children in Yosemite Valley, Ansel Adams, sought ways to help with the war effort. Too old to enlist, he volunteered for a number of assignments in which his photographic skills were put to the country's use. Among his contributions, he both escorted and photographed Army troops at Yosemite training for mountain warfare in Europe; he taught photography to the Signal Corps at Fort Ord, and traveled to the Presidio in San Francisco to print classified photographs of Japanese military installations on the Aleutian Islands. Despite his volunteer efforts, he was frustrated that he could not do more to help the war effort.
That summer, friend Ralph Merritt asked Adams if he would be interested in creating a photographic record of a little-known government facility in the Owens Valley, on the east side of the Sierra Nevada. "I cannot pay you a cent," Merritt told Adams, "but I can put you up and feed you." Merritt was director of the Manzanar War Relocation Center, a collection of hundreds of tar-paper barracks hastily built to house more than 10,000 people, behind barbed wire and gun towers. All were of Japanese Ancestry, but most were American citizens, forcibly removed from their homes to ten relocation centers across the country by presidential order. The resulting effort was the book Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans published by U.S. Camera in 1944 under the direction of the War Relocation Authority. 
While at Manzanar, Adams met Toyo Miyatake, the official camp photographer, interned with his wife and children. A student of the great photographer, Edward Weston, Miyatake had established his own respected professional photography studio in Los Angeles before the war. In the introduction to this book, MiyatakeÕs son, Archie, who was then 16-years old, recalls the visit made so long ago.
 In 1965, Adams wrote in a letter to Dr. Edgar Brietenbach at the Library of Congress: " . . . I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document and I trust it can be put to good use. . . " In the autumn of 2000, before the Manzanar photographs of Ansel Adams were available digitally and only available as 8x10 photographic reproductions, editor Wynne Benti spent two weeks in the collections of the Library of Congress and NARA, locating many, but not all of the photographs that appeared in the original book. The book went to press as two jets crashed into the World Trade Center, thus the addition of the American flag behind the cover photograph of Joyce Nakamura Okazaki. Spotted Dog Press republished Adams' work, Born Free and Equal, introducing it to new generations of Americans.

Born Free And Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans

Arts & Photography

ADAMS, Ansel

Photography & Video

Spotted Dog Pr

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