<b>Kevin Tinto</b> is based in Tiburon and Lake Tahoe, California. He has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, Reno Gazette Journal, Bike Transamerica, Scuba Diver Magazine and more.<br/>He is an avid mountaineer, skier, scuba and free diver, Private Pilot and adventurer.<br/>Kevin is a Level II Certified Ski Instructor and you can often find him teaching at Northstar, California, when not testing the Palisades at Squaw Valley.<br/>Editor-In-Chief of www.slidingonthecheap.com with more than 50,000 subscribers.<br/>He is currently working on the final edit to the second in the Jack Hobson, Leah Andrews Adventure/Thrillers titled: ARK!