The author of dozens of great hiking guides is gone. Rest in peace.
Harvey Manning, an icon of the mountaineering community who helped shape and preserve much of this region’s wilderness, died Sunday at age 81. Manning also wrote dozens of mountaineering and hiking guides, many of which have become classics. Most area outdoors enthusiasts, armchair or otherwise, grew up on one of his “100 Hikes” series of books.
“I feel like one of the great cedars of the North Cascades has fallen,” said Rick McGuire, former president of the Alpine Lakes Protection Society and longtime friend. “It’s hard to sum up a man like Harvey. He was a force of nature.”
Manning, known and beloved for his fearsome directness, was a tireless voice for conserving the forests as well as making them accessible to citizens of the Northwest. …
Harvey Manning, 1925-2006: Author of hiking guides ‘was a force of nature’
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My father was an amazing man and more complex then an old growth forest, which he sometimes resembled after a week in the mountains. He showed me that being p.c. was the quickest way to end up lost in a crowd. I loved my father and will miss him greatly.
Claudia
daughter number 3