About the Author

Bill Schneider has spent forty years hiking trails all across America. During college in the mid-1960s, he worked on a trail crew in Glacier National Park and became a hiking addict. He spent the 1970s publishing Montana Outdoors magazine for the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks while covering as many miles of trails as possible on weekends and holidays. In 1979 Bill and his partner, Mike Sample, founded Falcon Publishing. Since then he has written twenty books and hundreds of magazine articles on wildlife, outdoor recreation, and conservation issues. Bill has also taught classes on bicycling, backpacking, zero-impact camping, and hiking in bear country for the Yellowstone Institute, a nonprofit educational organization in Yellowstone National Park.

In 2000 Bill retired from his position as president of Falcon Publishing (now part of Globe Pequot Press) after it had grown into the premier publisher of outdoor recreation guidebooks, with more than 800 titles in print. During the early twenty-first century, he worked as an acquisition editor for Globe Pequot Press and travel and outdoor editor for NewWest.Net, a regional online magazine. He lives in Helena, Montana, with his wife, Marnie, and works as a publishing consultant and freelance writer.

For more details, go to www.billschneider.net.

The author at Phelps Lake. Marnie Schneider

Books in Print by Bill Schneider

Backpacking Tips (co-author)

Backpacker Magazine’s Bear Country Behavior

Bear Aware, A Quick Reference Bear Country Survival Guide

Backpacker Magazine’s Bear Country Behavior

Best Backpacking Vacations Northern Rockies

Best Easy Day Hikes Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness

Beast Easy Day Hikes Canyonlands and Arches

Best Easy Day Hikes Grand Teton

Best Easy Day Hikes Yellowstone

Best Hikes on the Continental Divide (co-author)

Hiking Canyonlands and Arches National Parks

Hiking Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe Mountains National Parks

Hiking Grand Teton National Park

Hiking Montana (co-author)

Hiking the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness

Hiking Yellowstone National Park

The Tree Giants

Where the Grizzly Walks