Karen Berger has earned her reputation as a hiking expert with footsteps—literally millions of them. Seventeen thousand miles. Six continents. And hundreds of stories. She has hiked America's "Triple Crown" of hiking trails: the Appalachian, Pacific Crest, and Continental Divide trails, and has walked across England, Scotland, France, Holland, Beligum, and the Netherlands.
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Ann Marie Brown
The author of 13 outdoors guidebooks, Ann Marie Brown is a dedicated California outdoorswoman. She hikes, bikes, and camps more than 150 days each year in an effort to avoid routine, complacency, and getting a real job.
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Deke Castleman
Deke Castleman is the author of eight editions of Compass Las Vegas, six editions of Nevada Handbook, one edition of Compass Nevada, and one edition of Utah and Nevada Camping. He lives in Reno and has been traveling around and writing about Nevada for more than 20 years.
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Paul Elliott
A Washington, D.C.-based scribe and researcher with eclectic interests, Paul Elliott roams the mid-Atlantic region—and the West—in search of natural, cultural, and regional history and adventure.
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Mike Kautz
Kautz is a Mainer, writer, and photographer who spends his winters in Montana and his summers in Maine. Mike grew up along the Maine-New Hampshire border and learned to hike, bike, climb, ski, hunt, and paddle in the foothills of the White Mountains. He is currently at work on a book of non-fiction about his home state.
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Brian Kevin
Though he cut his adventure teeth in the Wisconsin and Minnesota northwoods, Brian Kevin lives, writes, and plays in Missoula, Montana. When he's nesting, Brian skips the adventure thing altogether and writes about books and music for magazines such as Paste, Plenty, and High Country News.
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Kim Lipker
Rockies native Kim Lipker is a writer, mom, and an outdoor enthusiast based in the beautiful town of Fort Collins, Colorado. The Rocky Mountains are her home, but her heart also belongs to Hawaii, where she has traveled extensively. Her children are sixth-generation natives of Colorado, and they've traveled right along with mom.
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Steve Metzger
Steve Metzger is the author of the first six editions of Moon Handbooks New Mexico (Avalon Travel Publishing) and the first five editions of Moon Handbooks Colorado (Avalon Travel Publishing), as well as Day Trips Sacramento (Globe-Pequot Press). He has published more than 200 magazine and newspaper articles in a wide range of national and international newspapers and magazines.
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Johnny Molloy
Johnny Molloy is a writer and adventurer based in Johnson City, Tennessee. It all started on a backpacking foray into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. That first trip, though a disaster, unleashed an innate love of the outdoors that has led to his spending more than 100 nights in the wild per year over the past 25 years while backpacking and canoe-camping through the United States.
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Jeremy Pataky
Jeremy Pataky lives, writes, and works as a hiking and climbing guide in Alaska. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana.
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Laurie Roddy
A native of Houston, Texas, Laurie has been writing for more than 25 years on everything from computers to the outdoors. She now freelances for several Houston-area magazines and recently completed the book 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Houston.
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Mike Sigalas
Mike Sigalas is the author of Moon Handbooks South Carolina, North Carolina, Coastal Carolinas, Charleston & Savannah, and (with Jeff Bradley) the Smoky Mountains.
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Alaska National Park Adventure
Explore the wildlife and natural history of Denali National Park and Wrangell-St. Elias National Park on day hikes on this comprehensive tour of Alaska.
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Historic Parks of the American Southwest
Get out and explore the great American outdoor. Take a guided tour and soak up the history & scenic beauty of the great national parks of the Southwest.
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Writers Kimberly Lisagor and Heather Hansen cover 37 one-of-a-kind travel destinations worldwide that are in eco-danger, from Yellowstone National Park to China's Yangtze River Valley.
The desert can be a severe and uncompromising place if you enter it lightly. We outline the survival strategies, essential gear, and desert hot spots to get you safely on your way to discovering the full vitality of these parched lands.
Gearing up for your next adventure? We've got print-and-pack equipment checklists for your favorite outdoor activities, including paddling, hiking, and biking.
Where are you headed? Sunny beaches, shady forest, or snow-capped mountains? It makes all the difference to campers because clothing, tents, cooking gear, and almost everything else can be sufficient in one situation and inadequate in another.
Though we admire the ease of energy-replenishing snacks such as Gu and PowerBars, you can't live on them alone. These recipes fuel your muscles for any run, ride, or climb you want to take on.
Photo Credits: El Tovar Hotel, Grand Canyon National Park: courtesy, Xanterra Parks & Resorts; Appalachian Trail, Maine: Isaac Wiegmann/courtesy, Appalachian Trail Conservancy; Furnace Creek Inn, Death Valley: courtesy, Xanterra Parks & Resorts; Colorado State Forest State Park: Tim Seibert/courtesy, Colorado State Parks; Grand Teton National Park: courtesy, Triangle X Ranch
