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About Milestone Press Since 1992, Milestone Press has been publishing adventure destination guides to the Southeast. Our focus is simple: we produce reliable, up-to-date guidebooks that give you outdoor adventure enthusiasts all the information you need to have a great experience in the Southeast, a region we know and love. We're located in North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains, just a few miles, as the crow flies, from the National Park. The Tsali trails and Nantahala River are nearly in our back yard. Our pub list is small and grows slowly, because we put a lot of energy into revising and updating our books on a regular basis and making sure new ones meet our standards for user-friendliness, clarity and accuracy. View our submission guidelines.
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Office Hours At Milestone Press our office staff is small, so if you ever need to call about an order you've made, you're likely to get someone who will remember your name. Office hours are 9-5 eastern time Monday through Friday, but you can fax us or call and leave a message anytime. We'll get back to you by fax, phone or email within 24 hours, or on the next business day if it's a weekend or holiday. Our office is closed on major holidays.
Our Authors Jim Parham, author of the six-volume Off The Beaten Track mountain bike guide series and two of our Road Bike guides, has also been a whitewater instructor and river guide. His bike and boat have taken him on roads, rivers and trails in Alaska, Chile, New Zealand, Scotland, and the western U.S., and of course all over the southern Appalachians. A North Carolina native who grew up in north Georgia and spent years living and working in east Tennessee, Jim knows most of the southeastern mountain country by heart. He lives here in the North Carolina Smokies with his wife, photographer and editor Mary Ellen Hammond, and son Sidney.
Kelly Fischer is the author of both our whitewater playboating guides. Kelly was born in Minnesota, but moved the Southeast in 1986. As a whitewater guide and instructor for the Nantahala Outdoor Center, he has led river trips to Alaska, Borneo, and Chile, and has introduced countless students to the joys of playboating on southeastern rivers, including the Nantahala, Ocoee, and Tuckaseigee. He lives with his wife, son and daughter in Maine.
The Blue Ridge Bicycle Club, author of Road Bike Asheville, NC, represents the vast majority of cyclists in the Asheville area, with a current membership of about 250. The Club organizes weekly rides and is involved in bicycling advocacy both on and off the road. Its annual "Hilly Hellacious Hundred" century ride is held in August, and it's a great ride! For more information about the Club and BRBC events, check out the Club's web page at http://www.main.nc.us/BRBC/index.html.
Mary Ellen Hammond, co-author of Natural Adventures in the Mountains of North Georgia, has been photographing and writing about outdoor adventures in the Southeast since 1983. Although she has contributed to each of our books in the role of photographer or editor or both, the Natural Adventures books are the first of our titles on which her name appears. Her photographs have appeared in Outside, Mothering and Forbes magazines, among others.
Haakon P. "Hawk" Hagebak, author of Motorcycle Adventures in the Southern Appalachians, is not only a licensed helicopter pilot and former Coast Guard navigator, he's a metro Atlanta motorcycle police officer as well. His easygoing personality matches his easygoing writing style and his experiences on a motorcycle are far-ranging. His wheels have touched down in every one of the lower 48 states and he's probably eaten in more greasy spoons than he'd care to acknowledge. Hawk lives outside Atlanta with his wife Lisa and their daughters Shannon, Savannah, Stacie, and Annabelle.
Michael Streeter, author of A Rockhounding Guide to North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, became a passionate rock and mineral collector at a very young age. Now a licensed geologist for the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, he lives near Asheville with his wife Chris and their canine rockhounds, Opal and Sparky.
Steve Longenecker, author of Wilderness Emergency Medical Aid Book For Kids (& Their Adults), is a lifelong teacher and outdoor leader. He began teaching Wilderness Emergency Medical Aid (WEMA) workshops for kids in 1973. Steve continues to develop and provide programs for children and is available for WEMA classes as well as training workshops for adult leaders. He currently serves as Adventure Programs Director at Falling Creek Camp for Boys. Steve lives in Asheville, N.C
Danny Bernstein, author of Hiking the Carolina Mountains, has been hiking all her life. An Appalachian Trail end-to-ender, she leads hikes in the Carolina mountains and writes about the outdoors from her home in Asheville, N.C.
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