Brief Biography of The Author

 

Mike Hiler graduated from the University of Missouri in 1966 and taught junior high school mathematics in Kansas City for two years.  In 1968 he enrolled in the Institute of Allende in San Miguel, Allende, MEXICO and received an art degree from San Francisco State College in 1970.  Since that time he has worked in the Pacific Northwest as a fire lookout, a Wilderness Ranger and trails manager, and an administrative technician for the U. S. Forest Service, retiring in 2005.  

 

Since 2005 Mike and his wife Kristin have camped extensively throughout the Pacific Northwest.  Mike has pursued the Ceramic arts at their home in Yakima. They are actively rehabilitating the old Jumpoff Lookout station in theTieton Basin, west of Yakima. 

 

Mike has written and published numerous articles on the history of Central Washington, trails maintenance, and Wilderness issues.  In 1987 he published a "Study Guide to the Naches Pass Historic Trail", describing a forgotten remnant of the Oregon Trail that stretches from Walla Walla to Steilacoom, through central Washington.  The Biles/Longmire wagon train crossed the Cascade Mountains, near Yakima in the fall of 1853 heading for Pudget Sound.

 

Mike joined with Missouri Poet, Mike Cochran (The Springfield Troubadour), in 1977 for his release of a poetry collection titled "Sticks" and in 1988 he published "Logbook, Dreams of a Secret Aviator" under the Eyecon label.   In 1990 he published a small collection of poems titled "Journey -Backpack Edition" (Journey North for Summer and Kamikazi), in association with the TAPJoE poetry journal.  He released "Graphs of Para, a Poets Notebook" in 1998 in a limited format.  “Push - 1.1 (Breakwater’s Edge, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, and Stone’s Source)” was originally published by TAPJoE press, unsuccessfully in CD format in 2004.  The Cave Moon releases “Buckskin Larch and Bedrock (Two books)” and “Listos” (Campfire Smoke, Praise, Stone, and Listos) were published in 2011 and 2017 and are available on Amazon.   Mike has published poetry in a number of western publications, including TAPJoE, Talapus, Guallala Equinox Edition, Signpost, and Pack and Paddle Magazine.  Mike and his son nominated the largest Mountain Hemlock to the National Register of Big trees in 2011.  Mike is an established ceramics artist living in Yakima, WA.   

 

 

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