The Publisher
Wynne Benti
Wynne Benti started Spotted Dog Press in 1995, writing and publishing her first book Favorite Dog Hikes In and Around Los Angeles. She coauthored Climbing Mt. Whitney (with Peter Croft), Favorite Dog Hikes In and Around Las Vegas (with Megan Lawlor) and edited Close Ups of the High Sierra (Norman Clyde); Death Valley to Yosemite: Frontier Mining Camps and Ghost Towns (Mary DeDecker and L. Burr Belden), and Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans (Ansel Adams).
Benti started climbing desert mountains in 1985 and has climbed over 600 peaks in the American Southwest, Mexico, Alaska, Canada and Japan. She has canoed the Yukon River from Whitehorse to Dawson City and has ridden her BMW 650 GS motorcycle to Alaska and back.