author of Hiking North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains

Outdoor writer Danielle "Danny" Bernstein's first hiking guidebook, Hiking the Carolina Mountains, was published in 2007. She has been hiking all her adult life, and currently hikes several times a week, year round. Her passion for the sport manifests itself in many different ways.

• Bernstein is an Appalachian Trail end-to-ender, a hike leader for the Carolina Mountain Club, and a hiking instructor at UNC-Asheville's College for Seniors. She maintains a 5-mile section of the Appalachian Trail on the Tennessee/North Carolina border for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.
• As a Together We Read site coordinator, she leads an annual hike related to the book chosen each year by this organization which aims to promote reading of regional literature in western North Carolina.
• Bernstein's hiking experience extends far beyond the Carolina mountains. She has completed numerous personal hiking challenges, including New Hampshire 4,000-footers (48 mountains over 4,000 ft. in New Hampshire), Winter Catskills (34 peaks in the New York Catskills climbed in winter), and New Zealand Great Walks (9 multi-day hikes in New Zealand). In 2008 she completed the more than 800 miles of trails in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Three years later, she finished the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, a 1,000 miles through North Carolina.
  
• Danny Bernstein's writing has appeared in Appalachia, The Charlotte Observer, Blue Ridge Country, Blue Ridge Outdoors, , Smoky Mountain Living, Smoky Mountain News, and Western North Carolina Woman.

• She's a contributing writer for National Parks Traveler.

•  She lives with her husband in Asheville, NC.

For further information or to arrange an interview with Danny Bernstein, please contact:
Mary Ellen Hammond at Milestone Press
828-488-6601 / maryellenhammond@milestonepress.com