"Are bears dangerous?"  This was the question that started the quest for the author, which ended with her being a guide at a bear viewing lodge in Alaska for four summer seasons. Her first book, Lonesome for Bears, is the story of facing fears and diviing into learning about bears, including how to track them.  The book describes a population of brown/grizzly and black bears who frequent a salmon stream in summer year after year. Bears, moose, wolves, eagles, foxes and every other Alaskan animal also live where the salmon thrive.  The question that started the quest is answered, along with some startling new ways to think about all bears and their interactions and behaviors.  

Her second book, Lonesome for Wilderness,  was born out of a discovery that the real valuable things in life can be gained by being comfortable and engaged in the wild. The author dared to "step out alone" and find the natural world. After years in Search and Rescue and traveling the backcountry on her own, she wants to share a way of learning, enjoying and being comfortable in the wild.