The late Gene Daniell, a longtime editor of the “AMC White Mountain Guide,” once said that “a guidebook is a record of how trails are at a given point in time.”
Steve Smith, co-editor of the new 31st edition of the “AMC White Mountain Guide” recently said, “every time I hike a trail I tweak the description.”
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