The Tuolumne Group of the Sierra Club has invited Twain Harte resident and author Kathi Joye, who has published two books about hiking along the Highway 108 corridor, to speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.
25, at the Tuolumne County Library, 480 Greenley Road, Sonora. Joye was born in Virginia, grew up in a military family, and graduated from Coronado High School in San Diego County. She and her family came to Tuolumne County in 2008, and when she couldn’t find a local hiking guide she decided to research and write her own.
“Day Hikes Along the Highway 108 Corridor” was published in 2014, and she followed up a year later with “More Hikes along the Highway 108 Corridor” in 2015. “What I really like about this area is it spans many different elevation levels, and you can get different types of hikes at different times of the year,” Joye said in a phone interview Friday. “And up in the higher country, it has so much similarity with Yosemite, being part of the Sierra Nevada range with the geology there.
There are not nearly as many people, but it’s still just as beautiful.” Hikes she describes in her books are in areas including the Middle Fork Stanislaus River Canyon, the South Fork Stanislaus River Canyon, the Carson-Iceberg Wilderness, the Emigrant Wilderness, the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, the North Fork Tuolumne River Canyon, the Clavey River Canyon, and the Stanislaus National Forest. She and her family came to Tuolumne County from Ohio, where they h.