Best Tent Camping: Northern California: Your Car-Camping Guide to Scenic Beauty, the Sounds of Nature, and an Escape from Civilization

About Wendy Speicher

Wendy Speichers love affair with the outdoors started in childhood as she was growing up on her parents 10-acre farm in rural Northern Michigan. Memories of nights spent in the popup camper in the states sandy campgrounds and of campfire-cooked dinners of baked potatoes corn on the cob and sirloin steaks are still some of her fondest. Wanderlust runs deep in the family gene pool and it drew Wendy to Northern Californias Yosemite Valley on a summer break between college semesters. After that there was no turning back. Wendy studied journalism at beautiful Humboldt State University and cut her teeth in the business covering sports recreation food and entertainment at a variety of newspapers magazines and websites in the Lake TahoeTruckee and Sacramento areas. Her first book Day & Section Hikes: Pacific Crest Trail: Northern California was published by Wilderness Press in 2010. As a young mother Wendy has temporarily retired her long-distance hiking shoes in favor of the car-camping experience which allows her the convenience of introducing her son Archer to outdoor living without the burden of a fully loaded pack. Spending time outside with Archer and her husband Greg is the joy of her life. As a true jack-of-all-trades when she isnt writing Wendy is a professional massage therapist and yoga and fitness instructor and enjoys helping people attain new levels of health and well-being. Learn more at wendyspeicher.com