Lisa Ballard, who has been hiking the Green Mountains for more than thirty years, is the Emmy-winning host of Wildlife Journal (PBS) and a writer and nature photographer whose work has appeared in Backpacker, Her Sports, Vermont Life, and Vermont Magazine. Mark Aiken is a ski instructor at Stowe and a freelance outdoor writer. He is a recreational marathoner and triathlete. His work can be read in The New York Times, Vermont Sports Magazine, Around Concord, and Backpacker Magazine.