Tom DeMund

Founder, KDF Publishing

Tom DeMund is a graduate of Stanford (albeit not recently). He is a lifetime member of the Stanford Alumni Association as well as a 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 oriented 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 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 this region of the Sierra. The author is now retired from a career in commercial/industrial investment real estate. 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.