Harvey Manning
| Harvey Manning | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 16, 1925 Ballard, Seattle, Washington |
| Died | November 12, 2006 (aged 81) Bellevue, Washington |
| Subject | Hiking/climbing guides |
| Notable works | Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills |
Harvey Manning (July 16, 1925 in Ballard, Seattle, Washington - November 12, 2006 in Bellevue, Washington) was a noted author of hiking guides and climbing textbooks, and a tireless hiking advocate. Manning lived on Cougar Mountain, within the city limits of Bellevue, Washington, calling his home the "200 meter hut". His book Walking the Beach to Bellingham is an autobiography and manifesto fleshing out his journal of a hike along the shore of Puget Sound over a two-year span.
From 1954 to 1956, Harvey Manning managed Seattle radio station KISW.
Harvey Manning died November 12, 2006, in Bellevue.
Manning is most famous for being the editorial committee chair for the first edition of Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, a textbook for climbing and scrambling. The first edition was so successful that it created Mountaineers Books, the publishing outlet of The Mountaineers.
Manning is also noted for writing the "100 Hikes" series of hiking guidebooks, along with Ira Spring:
These guidebooks are the standard books for hiking throughout western Washington.
Manning also wrote many other books on outdoor activities, including:
Manning advocated trail protection and maintenance for much of his life, based on his extensive experience in the Washington outdoors (having backpacked since the 1930s). He was the bane of mountain bikers in the Seattle area. Manning believed foot traffic (both the boots and the horseshoe variety) cannot coexist with the greater speeds of bicycle enthusiasts and disdained local politicians beholden to wheeled-recreation advocates for "spouting pure Lycra". Largely as a result of his efforts, Cougar Mountain is off-limits to bikes and even Tiger Mountain has very limited single-track mileage where bikes are permitted.
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