Smart and Savvy Hiking: What Every Woman Needs to Know on the Trail

by Kim Lipker

Smart & Savvy Hiking will walk readers through the basics of the outdoor world and how to have a fulfilling outdoor experience. Information will be presented in a way that offers women unique ways to experience the outdoors, through journaling, goal setting, and checklists. Women of all outdoor-ability levels will be engaged.

Hiking mistress and trail master Kim Lipker starts with the assumption that, Yes!, females are indeed at home in the wilderness. This unique guide is packed with essential how-to information, wit, wisdom, and tips on everything from safety, to basic equipment, to hiking while pregnant. Whether new to the sport or a veteran, Smart & Savvy Hiking prepares females to have fun, enjoy, and be safe on a day hike through the woods, weekend blast in the desert, or extended journey on a long trail. Daring? Of course. Dangerous? No way. Divine? In every possible way.

224 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2008

About the author

Kim Lipker grew up in Colorado loving the outdoors from an early age. She is the author of four guidebooks for Menasha Ridge Press: Smart & Savvy Hiking: What Every Woman Needs to Know on the Trail; 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Denver and Boulder; The Best in Tent Camping: Colorado, 4th Edition (with Johnny Molloy); and Day and Overnight Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park. She also wrote The Unofficial Guide to Bed & Breakfasts and Country Inns in the Rockies (Hungry Minds).

In addition to writing books, Kim writes for the Web site Away.com, contributing features, ratings, and reviews covering parks, active sports, and outdoor adventures in the Rocky Mountains and Hawaii.

Kim has been writing for a while, having had her first news article published at age 12 and later earning a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her start was in newspapers, but she went freelance, was at the right place at the right time, and now writes outdoor guidebooks.

Kim makes her home in Fort Collins, Colorado, with her three children, Anna, Alex, and Emma."