Mike White

Born and raised in Portland, Ore., Mike White received a bachelors of art in Political Science from Seattle Pacific University. Cutting his outdoor teeth in the Cascades, he discovered the Sierra Nevada after moving to Reno, Nev.. Upon leaving his last real job, he began his second career in outdoor writing with an update to a guidebook to the Trinity Alps. Since then he has written or contributed to 17 additional hiking, backpacking and snowshoeing guides, as well as writing articles for Sunset and Backpacker magazines, and the Reno Gazette Journal newspaper. His latest book is “50 of the Best Snowshoe Trails around Lake Tahoe.”