The Importance of Outdoor Book Clubs

Like all things that come full circle, book clubs are making a comeback. Or maybe they never actually left, but they're definitely becoming "cool" again for an audience broader than Oprah's Book Club for your mom and her friends. Emma Watson has Our Shared Shelf. Mindy...

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If You Love Hiking, You’ll LOVE Chattanooga

New Guide Features 40 Must-Hike Trails in Greater Chattanooga (Cover image: Brian Stansberry) CHATTANOOGA, TN -- Consistently rated as among the best places to live for outdoor enthusiasts, Chattanooga is located within easy reach of a wide array of paddling, camping, and especially hiking destinations. Now, for the first...

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How Can You Hike More Each Week? Keep Your Local Hiking Guide At Hand

[caption id="attachment_1801" align="alignleft" width="400"] Diane Stresing, author of 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Cleveland (Menasha Ridge Press)[/caption] CLEVELAND -- We asked Diane Stresing, author of 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Cleveland, how she works regular hiking into her busy, day-to-day schedule. Her solution is simple: she keeps her local...

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Make Your Kids Fall in Love with Nature

Cincinnati-based hiking expert and author Tammy York has been busy this past month sharing tips all over the blogosphere on how to make your kids fall in love with the Great Outdoors. Recently, Tammy shared with the Cincinnati Nature Center one particular way to get your kids...

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Head out on the highway!

It's here and available for sale! The latest edition of Ron Dalby's Guide to the Alaska Highway has shipped, just in time for the gorgeous weather and unbelievable Alaska travel season. This fantastic guide goes beyond the lists and basic points of interest and draws on Ron's 35 trips worth...

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Alabama Book Festival 2008

txt_albookfest.jpgThis past weekend we loaded up the VW and headed to Montgomery to participate in this year’s Alabama Book Festival. The weather was perfect as was our location.

All of which were made that much better by getting to spend time speaking with readers and users of our books. With our long list of fun authors, gorgeous travel photos of beautiful subject matter, it is always a blast putting our books together, but there is nothing like sitting outside, on a sunny southern Saturday, sharing tales of the trail and outdoor adventures.

Our best selling titles this Festival were our popular 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Birmingham and A Canoe and Kayaking: Georgia.Lots of people would come by, already owning one of our guide books looking to see what else we had available for their state. That gives you a warm feeling, on par with the sun that day, to know that people have used your books and enjoyed themselves enough to search you out to see what else there is to do!It was a great day and we’re excited for the future of the Alabama Book Festival! We have a few photos after the jump…