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Carolina Mountain Club: One Hundred Years
Carolina Mountain Club, the oldest hiking and trail maintaining club in the South, celebrates one hundred years in 2023. Through the voices of its passionate members, discover the story of hiking, trail maintenance, and land protection in Western North Carolina. In the 1920s and 1930s, the club built much of the Appalachian Trail in the South. Later it established the Art Loeb Trail through Pisgah National Forest. CMC created the Mountains-to-Sea Trail in the North Carolina mountains, protected Max Patch from development, spoke out against building the North Shore Road through the most pristine section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and currently participates in the Pisgah-Nantahala Forest plan.
Many photos and some old maps add to the liveliness of the book.
Many photos and some old maps add to the liveliness of the book.
204 pages, Paperback
Published March 22, 2023
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About the author
Danny Bernstein
8 books22 followersDanny's new book, DuPont Forest: A History published by The History Press September 2020.
Danny Bernstein is a hiker, hike leader, and outdoor writer. She's been a committed hiker since her early twenties, having completed the Appalachian Trail, all the trails in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the South beyond 6000 peaks, the Mountains-to-Sea Trail across North Carolina and three Caminos de Santiago. She currently leads hikes for Carolina Mountain Club, Friends of the Smokies and the Asheville Camino group.
She’s written two Southern Appalachian hiking guides, "The Mountains-to-Sea Trail across North Carolina" published by The History Press and "Forests, Alligators, Battlefields: My Journey through the National Parks of the South" to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service.
In her previous life, she worked in computer science, way before computers were cool, first as a software developer, then as a professor of computer science. Her motto is “No place is too far to walk if you have the time.”
Danny blogs regularly at hikertohiker.com.
Danny Bernstein is a hiker, hike leader, and outdoor writer. She's been a committed hiker since her early twenties, having completed the Appalachian Trail, all the trails in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the South beyond 6000 peaks, the Mountains-to-Sea Trail across North Carolina and three Caminos de Santiago. She currently leads hikes for Carolina Mountain Club, Friends of the Smokies and the Asheville Camino group.
She’s written two Southern Appalachian hiking guides, "The Mountains-to-Sea Trail across North Carolina" published by The History Press and "Forests, Alligators, Battlefields: My Journey through the National Parks of the South" to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service.
In her previous life, she worked in computer science, way before computers were cool, first as a software developer, then as a professor of computer science. Her motto is “No place is too far to walk if you have the time.”
Danny blogs regularly at hikertohiker.com.
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August 25, 2025
Great NC history of Mountain hiking. Valuable resource and detailed Club history for The org with supports the love of the wild and it convergence of those of us who can’t seem to spend enough time in it!
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