Product Description
by Matt Willen (Author)
This exciting guide provides detailed information on 43 of the best day hikes along the Appalachian Trail in West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, with ratings for scenery, trail condition, accessibility for children, difficulty, and solitude.
Author Biography
Matt Willen is an outdoors writer, explorer, and photographer who divides his time between central Pennsylvania and the Canadian Maritimes. Matt has a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and degrees from schools in Colorado and Arizona. Before devoting his time to writing about the outdoors, he was a professor for 15 years at a small liberal arts college in central Pennsylvania, and he worked for the Colorado Outward Bound School and other outdoors programs for 15 years. An avid sea kayaker and wilderness trekker, Matt has traveled in the outdoors for 40 years. The locations of some of his recent adventures include Patagonia and Tierra Del Fuego, Iceland and Newfoundland. He lives in Hershey, PA.
