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John Poimiroo

John has been a career outdoor and travel communicator. Much of his career was spent representing travel destinations, including Eldora Mountain Resort, Squaw Valley USA (now Palisades Tahoe), Marriott's Great America, Roaring Camp Railroads, Yosemite National Park and the State of California as State Tourism Director. He also was a senior PR Practitioner at major Agencies, including his own, where he represented many travel destinations and companies. Throughout his career he has freelanced as a travel and outdoor writer. He founded CaliforniaFallColor.com and has written for EastWestNewsService.com, Mountain Democrat, San Francisco Chronicle, Westways, California Magazine, Sunset Magazine and many other publications. During his long career in travel and outdoor communications, he has received over 80 awards for writing, photography and marketing communications. He is a PR bachelor's degree graduate of San Jose State and a Journalism master's degree graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder. His writing specialties are: cycling, sailing, national parks and tourist railroads.

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2025 California Outdoors Hall of Fame

A pioneer outdoor broadcaster, the innovator of online fishing reports, an advocate for youth outdoors education, the consummate outdoorsman and a Major Leaguer who embodies the American sportsman are being inducted into the 2025 Class of the California Outdoors Hall of Fame.

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Cycling California’s Royal Road – Part II

Cycling California’s Royal Road (the El Camino Real) is an 800-mile (1,287 km) epic adventure not considered lightly. The missions are from 16 to 60 miles apart (26 to 97 km), distances that test the limits of the endurance and ability of most cyclists or walkers.

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Cycling California’s Royal Road – Part I

Cycling California’s El Camino Real is an 800-mile (1,287 km) epic adventure. The appeal of visiting picturesque missions established by Spanish friars between 1769 and 1823 is enhanced by traveling a route that still looks much like it did 200 years ago. Part I – Santa Cruz to Soledad.

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Take a Deep Dive While Staying Dry

Visitors to the Monterey Bay Aquarium are being taken on a deep dive, thousands of feet down to the black depths of Monterey Canyon in a new exhibit. This trend-setting aquarium was recently recognized for conserving and preserving the culture, history and environment of ocean environments.

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Ebikes – The Anyone Can Do It Adventure

When 40-something Elissa Unton of Manhattan Beach, CA was asked to organize a destination adventure for friends who would join her in Paso Robles, CA she faced the dilemma of finding something active that everyone in her travel party could do. To her delight, the Paso Robles Tour Co. rented e-bikes.

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