Eric Hansen Sierra Club Presentation - Feb 8

Eric Hansen is a writer and traveler with a lengthy resume of exploring the inspiring landscapes of the American West and Upper Great Lakes. His writing credits include extensive work for Backpacker magazine, as well as other journals.

He is a veteran of 22 treks to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and successful ascents of most of the high peaks of Glacier National Park. Eric walked a memorable 1,700 miles while researching his northern Michigan and Wisconsin guidebooks. Eric Hansen website

Join him for an evening slide show with Award-Winning Author and Noted Hiker Eric Hansen on February 8, 2007 at 7:00 PM at Bubolz Nature Preserve in apleton. Click [HERE] for directions.

Eric will present a slide tour of the Northcountry’s best hikes and offer his thoughts on the land, its compelling themes and its almost mythic place in the imagination of people throughout the Midwest. The author of Hiking
Wisconsin and Hiking Michigan’s Upper Peninsula – A Guide to the Greatest Hiking Adventures in the U.P., Eric walked 1,700 miles while researching these guidebook projects.

He found miles of quiet Lake Superior shoreline,
thumping waterfalls and sparkling cascades, and rock balconies with knock-your-socks off views that stretch 50 miles and more. Eric will cover hidden gems like Shining Cloud Falls, Lost Creek Falls and the fabled Falls of the Yellow Dog as well as scenic viewpoints like the Trap Hill’s Norwich Bluff and the Tip of the Keweenaw’s Bare Bluff.

He has highlighted the Northcountry’s natural heritage in adventure features in Backpacker Magazine, the op-ed pages of the Chicago Tribune, and in interviews on Wisconsin Public Radio.

His Northland hiking slide shows are popular—twice drawing
overflow crowds of more than 300 people. Widely traveled, Eric is a veteran of 22 treks to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

The Outdoor Writer’s Association of America recently awarded him first prize for 2005 conservation and environment newspaper writing in its annual Excellence in Craft Awards. A widely-acclaimed op-ed essay in the Chicago Tribune highlighting the U.P.’s iconic Coaster Brook Trout, and the threat of sulfide mining, lead to that award. That essay is available at www.eric-hansen.com.