[Dave Workman]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/292252_manning14.html 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. Read the rest in the P-I --------------------------------- http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003425376_manningobit14m.html Harvey Manning was a man of incongruities. He was the Northwest's most prolific and influential author of books on hiking. Yet he had the physique of Santa Claus. He was a dedicated and caring conservationist who may have done more than any other single person to preserve wilderness in the Cascades. Yet he could verbally savage anyone who impeded his causes, from developers to politicians and newspaper editors. Read the rest in the Seattle Times