Mary Ellen Hammond

Mary Ellen Hammond pauses on a hike in the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness, which is made up of about 17,000 acres in North Carolina and Tennessee.

Guest Column, Mary Ellen Hammond: True Adventure Lies 15 Minutes Beyond The Parking Lot

Mary Ellen Hammond is the publisher of outdoor adventure guidebooks at Milestone Press in Almond, N.C. Milestone’s new hiking app, “Great Hikes of the Southern Appalachians,” is available for iphone and android.

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Behind Blue Ridge Country

Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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