![]() ![]() “It’s become a gift,” he says of the light sleeping habits that get him up and out of the house while most of the city still sleeps. He took up hiking the canyons and trails of the Santa Monica Mountains 25 years ago and hasn’t stopped - except during his recovery from quadruple heart bypass surgery in October 2019. ![]() When Crais moved to Los Angeles in 1976, he was a runner until chronic Achilles tendonitis ended that. “But also Los Angeles, because it’s just right there. “Invariably, I’m thinking about the characters or the books, the scenes that I’m writing,” he says. So for me, I’m free to think whatever I want. ![]() “You know, normally I’m finishing the hike about this time,” Crais says. The weather forecast had warned of fog and a chance of rain this morning, but in the distance only a scattering of low-hanging clouds move over the twinkling lights of Santa Monica to the east, Century City in the foreground, and downtown Los Angeles in the distance. ![]()
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