Exploring the Southwest's Grand Circle
Mark Schlenz has written a number of interpretive books for Companion Press, including Walk the Sky: Following the John Muir Trail, A Day in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, Exploring the Eastern Sierra, Death Valley National Park, and Mono Lake: Mirror of Imagination. He first explored the Southwest s Grand Circle in the 1980s and plans many more hikes in its remote slickrock country.Tom Bean is one of Arizona s pre-eminent landscape photographers. He began taking picutres to illustrate his presentations as a seasonal park ranger in Alaska and the West, and has worked extensively on interpretation of Southwest parks and wildlands as well as with Native tribes. He is a frequent contributor to Arizona Highways and is widely published in other magazines, picture books, and textbooks.