
The AdventureKEEN Blog

Shop Local, Live Local, and Support Binc
If we’ve learned anything over the past year, it’s that we all do better when we work together and support one another. It’s a simple lesson that helps inform AdventureKEEN’s Shop Local Live Local program, which allows us to give back and donate money to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation today during a virtual Winter Institute Session. “2020 was a tough year, but AdventureKEEN witnessed two silver linings,” says Richard Hunt, president. “First, we watched […]

Writing the Pacific Crest Trail: The Beginning
In early 2016, Jordan Summers and I hopped on a conference call with the good folks at Wilderness Press in Birmingham, Alabama, to talk about updating a guidebook series on the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail (PCT). The excitement was palpable among all the participants, even over the phone, even from 2,000 miles away. The award-winning PCT guides have been an important part of Wilderness Press since the early 1970s, when founder Thomas Winnett set […]

Discovering the Birds of Texas

Stargazing: Get to Know the Night Sky

Identifying Trees of the Carolinas

Discovering Waverly, A Town with a Population of 106

Let’s Discover the Birds of Florida

Little Washington: A Nostalgic Look at the Evergreen State’s Smallest Towns
There’s a Book for That!
Backyard Birding: Getting Started
Birding is big—and getting bigger. As topsy-turvy as this year has been, its events have shaken up enough routines to cause people to notice new things in the world, and that includes the birds flying around their homes. Maybe the boom in new birders is simply tied to the fact that many of us are safe at home and looking out the windows at times when we’d normally be stuck in traffic commuting. Or maybe, […]