MOON TAKE A HIKE NEW YORK CITY
Hikes within Two Hours of Manhattan

Looking for some fresh air and a brief escape from city life? Outdoors expert Skip Card leads you up and down trails within the city, Long Island, New Jersey, the Shawangunks, and the Hudson Valley and explores the Appalachian Trail—all within two hours of Manhattan.

Features include:
 • Descriptions of trails ranging from short, flat routes suitable for families to daylong, steep treks for more    advanced hikers
 • Best Hikes lists, such as Best for High Peaks and Best for Kids
 • Detailed directions to each trailhead
 • An easy-to-use map for each trail with point-by-point navigation
 • Options to extend or shorten each hike

Moon Take A Hike New York City
1st Edition
Skip Card
ISBN 1-56691-763-8
$16.95
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Skip Card’s career as an outdoors writer began in Washington state, where he grew up exploring the Pacific Northwest’s beaches, forests, and foothills. Card later took to mountain climbing and reached the summits of most of the Northwest’s major peaks, including 14,410-foot Mount Rainier. A newspaperman since 1986, Card became the outdoors reporter for The News Tribune in his hometown of Tacoma, and his work earned awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Card often shot the photos that accompanied his newspaper articles, particularly when his research took him to remote places.

Card got his first taste of New York City shortly after September 11, when he flew to Manhattan to cover search-and-rescue efforts at the World Trade Center site. Although it was an odd time for an introductory visit, that week left him in awe of this amazing city. Card returned in 2002 to report on the one-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks and to see how New Yorkers were coping. In Central Park, he met the lovely Jean Margaret Smith, and they were married two years later.

Card is the co-author of the guidebook Best Rain Shadow Hikes: Western Washington and a contributor to Mount Rainier: A Climbing Guide, and his work has appeared in Outside magazine, the New York Post, and, oddly enough, the New York State Bar Association Journal. He currently works for the New York Post as a copy editor and headline writer, with occasional opportunities to tell New Yorkers about the outdoors. Skip and Jean Margaret divide their time between Hell’s Kitchen and a cabin in upstate New York, near Woodstock. He welcomes your emails at skipcard@earthlink.net.