Ethan Gallogly

Ethan Gallogly, PhD (“Panda Po”) has been an outdoors leader in the Sierra Club, the Cal Hiking and Outdoors Society, the Outdoors Club of Southern California, and the Davis Hiking & Backpacking Group. His boots have covered countless miles, including the John Muir Trail, High Sierra Trail, Theodore Solomons Trail, and over half of the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail.

He was a reviewer for the Wilderness Press guides: Sierra North, Sierra South, and Yosemite National Park and has read nearly every book on the history of the Sierra Nevada.

He has also hiked and explored mainland China, is fluent in Mandarin, and enjoys reading ancient Chinese poetry and philosophy.

His future plans include hiking the Camino in Spain, the GR-10 in France, and the full length of the Appalachian and Pacific Crest Trails.

He is currently working on his second novel.