Walk the Farm with Tom DeMund

Author Tom DeMund will guide a hike from his book "Walking the Farm". Participants will get an insider's perspective on the history of iconic Stanford building and monuments. Breakfast and other refreshments will be provided.

About the book:

Written by Tom DeMund, "Walking the Farm" is rooted in the Bill Lane Center for the American WEst's annual tradition of hiking the Stanford campus and its environs to trace the links between the University, its founders Leland and Jane Stanford, and the dynamic region it helped shape. From the transcontinental railroad to postwar atomic research, and onward to the rise of Silicon Valley, walk in the footsteps of generations past.

18 themed walks through the Stanford campus, guiding you past notable architecture, sculptural works, and historic features; plus another 20 hikes on University lands, nearby parks, and nature preserves, as well as more distant hikes in the surrounding hills along the bay

About Tom DeMund

Tom DeMund is a graduate of Stanford (albeit not recently). He is a lifetime member of the Stanford Historical Society, the Block S Society, and the Stanford Founding Grant Society. He and his wife have been football season ticket holders for many years and have been on six international Stanford Alumni Travel trips. 

The author is also a member of many environmentally orientated organizations including: Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship, Pacific Crest Trail Association, California State Parks Foundation, Bay Ridge Trail Council, American Hiking Society, Save the Redwoods League, Northern Sierra Partnership and the The Trust for Public Land.

Tom's first venture in writing a hiking book resulted in his 2001 publication of "Feather River County Adventure Trails," which described 101 hikes in California's Plumas and Sierra Counties. In 2015, he published a fully updated sixth edition which followed on the heels of his very successful prior editions. His book has sold over 15,000 copies (certainly not Harry Potter numbers, but not bad for a hiking book) and is considered by many to be the "hiker's bible" for hiker-friendly trails in the region of the Sierra. The author is now retired from a career in commercial/industrial investment real state. He and his wife live in Graeagle, California (the bulls-eye of the Feather River country located 48 miles northwest of Truckee) during the summer and the rest of the year in Sausalito, California.

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