outdoor writer & photographer
With no finish line, no referees, no one right way to do it, hiking is perhaps the quintessential sport for anarchists.
KAREN BERGER
Hiking & Backpacking: A Complete Guide
Tropical coral reefs are to SCUBA diving what alpine peaks are to backpacking. Reefs are the highlights, the places where equipment manufacturers strut their stuff, and photographers shoot magazine covers.
KAREN BERGER
Scuba Diving
You can also go out on your own, urged on by advertisements, catalogs, and magazine covers where the outdoors is a kaleidoscope of blue skies, bright colors, smiling faces, and healthy bodies. There are days like that, of course -- lots of them, days of wildflowers and granite peaks and skies saturated in the bluest of all possible blues. There are days of clean, clear challenge; the exultation of bodies stretching their limits; the triumph of the last steps of a climb when there is nothing left between you and the sky. The photographs are telling the truth about those kinds of days.
KAREN BERGER
Where the Waters Divide
The outdoors is one of the safest places you can be--provided that you've got a little bit of know-how and a lot of common sense.
KAREN BERGER
Everyday Wisdom: 1001 Expert Tips for Hikers