Danny Bernstein

I’ve been a serious hiker for over 40 years. Soon after completing the Appalachian Trail, I moved to the Southern Appalachians to concentrate on hiking. Now I hike, lead hikes for the Carolina Mountain Club and write about the outdoors. I’ve hiked all the trails in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Smokies 900), the South Beyond 6000, all the mountains higher than 6,000 ft. in the east, as well as numerous hiking challenges in the northeast. I completed the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, walking 1,000 miles through North Carolina.

I am the author of Hiking the Carolina Mountains (2007) and Hiking North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Heritage (2009), both published by Milestone Press. I write outdoor articles for regional magazines and edit a biweekly electronic newsletter for the Carolina Mountain Club, which goes out to more than 1,500 readers including park and forest officials.
In my previous life, I was in Computer Science way before computing was cool, first as a software developer, then as a professor of Computer Science.