Dale "Bear" Brown is a native of western Oregon, born in Springfield, nurtured on the Willamette river and finished on the McKenzie. A lover of wilderness and wild places, hundreds of miles of backpacking, hiking and climbing, decades of boy scouting and youth activities have made life fun and memorable. Classic fantasy novels fuel his imagination: Tolkien, Rowling, Sanderson, Homer, Lewis and Mull among others. Husband, father, grandfather, uncle to a vast and rapidly growing tribe, devout disciple of Jesus Christ and all around nice guy, I hope you enjoy these excursions into my own fantasy world which I have created, informed by many of my own wilderness experiences.