By Yemaya Maurer and Lucas St. Clair

Paperback • $16.95
195 pgs • 6 x 9 • ISBN 978-1-934028-12-4

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 10, 2008

Exploring the outdoors in winter is exhilarating when you have the right skills. A new book from the Appalachian Mountain Club, AMC Guide to Winter Hiking and Camping, will teach you how to enjoy the special allure of this season safely and easily.

Drawing from more than 20 years of combined experience teaching backcountry skills, authors Yemaya Maurer and Lucas St. Clair provide the expert advice that outdoor enthusiasts expect from the AMC. Readers will learn which gear to buy, what clothing to wear, and where to go when planning a winter excursion.

Written in a fun, accessible style, the AMC Guide to Winter Hiking and Camping offers readers tips on a wide range of topics, from layering clothing and packing a backpack to buying the proper boots or crampons. This guide also provides instructions on how to build a winter campsite or snow shelter and gives guidance on stewardship.

Special Features

• Includes recommended gear, clothing, and food for winter travel
• Safety tips for dealing with weather and preventing injuries
• Hints for hiking with kids
• Helpful illustrations
• Convenient packing lists for day hikers, as well as backpackers

 “A marvelous guide. Not only do the authors possess a boundless knowledge of winter camping and hiking, they are also skilled writers who share their knowledge in a fun and exceptionally readable style.”—Dick “No Pack” Anderson, Founder, International Appalachian Trail

About the Authors
Lucas St. Clair and Yemaya Maurer are a husband-and-wife team with 20 years of combined experience teaching backcountry skills. St. Clair leads the wilderness training program at the Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine. Maurer writes on conservation issues.

Founded in 1876, the Appalachian Mountain Club is the oldest conservation and recreation organization in the nation. With 90,000 members in the Northeast and beyond, the nonprofit AMC promotes the protection, enjoyment, and wise use of the mountains, rivers and trails of the Appalachian region. The AMC supports natural resource conservation while encouraging responsible recreation, based on the philosophy that successful, long-term conservation depends upon first-hand enjoyment of the natural environment.

AMC Books are available wherever books are sold; distributed by The Globe Pequot Press, Inc., Guilford, CT 06437

Booksellers please call 888-249-7586.

AMC members may order directly from the AMC or call 800-262-4455.