Hard at work on Uncompahgre Peak, Colorado.

In September of 2005, I completed the first hike for my (then) upcoming guidebook Best Summit Hikes In Colorado. A year later, I walked through the falling aspen leaves on a picture-perfect Colorado autumn afternoon having finished my last hike, East Beckwith Peak in Aspen. In between I did 66 hikes and 93 summits with my GPS a’blazin, cameras rolling and occassionally, legs burnin’. I’d been all over Colorado on a shoestring budget and done it — now all I had to do was actually write the darn thing.

And write I did. Released in August 2007, Best Summit Hikes in Colorado has gone on to be a Colorado and Amazon.com best selling book. With the second edition due out in spring of 2010, I’ve been thrilled with the success of my humble guide. I’ve enjoyed sharing stories with my fellow hikers/climbers. As of spring of 2010, I’m hard at work on my second book, a collection of travel essays from Boulder to Antarctica.

In the meantime, I’d like to share a few of the other books I’ve contributed to or helped with at some point. Be sure to check out Mountain Air (my blog) for some of the stories of the adventures I had while writing my first book. Cheers!

	Joy of Backpacking By Brian Beffort I contributed a few inserts on my personal backpacking and hiking preferences and tricks! Great book for new and experienced hikers.
	Day and Overnight Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park By Kim Lipker I have one of the blurbs on the back of the book. Kim is a great author and her book is the definitive guide for Rocky Mountain National Park.
	Afoot & Afield Atlanta By Marcus Woolf Ok, so I didn’t technically contribute to this one, but Marcus is a good pal and great writer. We wrote our books at the same time and traded notes as we went along.