Danny Bernstein, Author
Danny Bernstein grew up an “inner city child,” she says, and became interested in the outdoors through “Y” camps. When she and her husband were living in NJ, they found a local hiking club, began going on weekend hikes and were hooked. Throughout the years, they hiked the Appalachian Trail in sections, completing it before they moved to Asheville in 2001. By that time, they had already discovered Carolina Mountain Club (CMC).
With her involvement through the years as a trail maintainer and hike leader, and having written several outdoors books and hiking guides, Bernstein was the natural pick when members wanted to commemorate CMC’s centennial with a written history. Her last book was DuPont Forest: A History. “I really enjoyed digging into the history of the Forest and also, of course, hiking it,” says Bernstein. “Now I felt it was going to be as much fun with CMC—and it was. A centennial is a big deal. We are the oldest hiking club in the South, older than the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.”
Carolina Mountain Club: One Hundred Years, April 2023, nonfiction, paperback, $19.95, by Danny Bernstein, and published by Carolina Mountain Club, Asheville, NC. Find the book at retail locations including Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café and Second Gear, and online at MountainstoSea.org. Bernstein will appear Tuesday, June 20, at 6 p.m. at Pack Library and July 5, at 6 p.m. at the WNC chapter of American Pilgrims on the Camino (reservations required).
