Art Bernstein is the author of 13 nature and hiking guides, including Falcon's Hiking Oregon's Southern Cascades and Siskiyous, and is an avid hiker and naturalist with in M.S. in Natural Resource Management from the University of Michigan. He has lived in Grants Pass, Oregon, since 1970, and he claims that weird things have only happened to him on 13 of his hundreds of hikes over the years.