Fishin' Trails: 25 Short Hikes for Eastern Sierra Wild Trout

In Fishin' Trails, Jared Smith blazes the trail to some of the most exceptional backcountry trout fishing lakes in the region. Jared provides photographs, hiking info and angling advice for twenty five different wild trout destinations, even lakes that hold the elusive Golden Trout! Jared will show you that getting a taste of the Sierra backcountry isn't nearly as difficult as you might think. $24.99

 

Escape to the Mountain: Mid-Life Redemption on the John Muir Trail

Parchers Resort owner Dr. Stephen Wade Smith takes the reader on five fascinating journeys of unexcelled natural beauty, soul searching and wild encounters with man and beast in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. We tag along on hiking and backpacking adventures with Smith's chiropractic buddies, another time with his sixteen-year-old son Jared, with friends, professional guides and with his beloved wife Judy. Looking for bear stories? Escape to the Mountains delivers them in abundance along with marmots and mosquitoes, the injured horse that had to be put down along the trail and other surprising misfits and benefactors along the John Muir Trail. $18.99

 

Music

Seldon Pass & Sierra Dreams - Audio CD

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This is Stephen's first collection of songs, recorded and released in 1997. While hiking the John Muir Trail in 1994, he collected a series of tidbits that later became the songs on this CD. The theme of the collection is the High Sierra and the deep contemplations that arise from the wilderness experience. We hope you enjoy the music!!!!

 

Every Day is a Good Day - Audio CD

Released in April 1999, this is an optimistic work built on the expression that “Every day’s a good day; just try missing one.” While it may seem trite or Pollyanna-ish, it is a great philosophy to live by. In my work I have seen the amazing correlation between attitude and health, attitude and aging, attitude and happiness.

 

Every Life is a Book - Audio CD

Released in 2005, this collaboration of Stephen Wade Smith and wife Judy Gylling, is the most recent collection of songs. Both deeply personal and at times playful, Steve and Judy show exquisite musicianship and solid songwriting on this album.