Becky Lomax grew up hiking, camping, and skiing in Olympic National Park, North Cascades National Park, and Mt.
She also writes stories for regional newspapers and National magazines such as Smithsonian and Backpacker , and is the author of multiple Moon guides including the bestselling Moon USA National Parks..
Becky serves as the western writer for On the Snow , a website that provides snow reports for ski resorts.
For magazine stories, she has tagged along with biologists into the field to radio collar bighorn sheep and grizzly bears, even touching the bear\'s claws and smelling its fur to discover its earthy scent.
She has written about hiking trails, historic lodges and roads, camping, paddling, skiing, bicycling, wildlife, wildflowers, birds, and climate change.
Through her writing, she advocates for conserving wild places for their unique attributes and the renewal they bring to humans.
She relishes visiting National Parks to hike, bike, backpack, kayak, and raft.
After teaching high school English for many years outside Seattle, she and her husband moved to Montana, where she served as a hiking and backpacking guide in Glacier, worked at a ski resort, and began to write about the outdoors.
During college, she worked summers in Glacier National Park.
Rainier National Park (where her dad used to serve as a ranger).
Becky Lomax grew up hiking, camping, and skiing in Olympic National Park, North Cascades National Park, and Mt
