Hobbs lives at the edge of Durango, in a wooded area adjoining thousands of acres of public land. From his writing desk in his upstairs office, he looks out at snow-capped mountain peaks. Nieces and nephews come for backpacking trips, river trips, and other explorations of the Southwest. Hobbs and his wife have no pets at present, but from their home they have seen black bears, coyotes, badgers, and bald and golden eagles, and "in late winter, a herd of elk comes out of the forest in the late afternoons and browses in the meadow, digging up the grass under the snow."
Ventures into Publishing
Hobbs was thirty-three before he started writing novels. It was the summer of 1980. The story was Bearstone, and it took six different manuscripts and eight years before it was published. In the California Reader, Hobbs noted that the writing of Bearstone "fulfilled my dream of setting a story for others to enjoy in the upper Pine River country of the Weminuche Wilderness, one of three favorite places in the geography of my heart." It is in wilderness settings such as this that many of his characters are tested--to push themselves and to learn their limits.
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