Travel & Outdoors Editor
Bill Schneider
Former book publisher who for 30 years has been filling in the spaces between fishing trips, hikes and bike rides by writing books and articles about the great outdoors.
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Bill Schneider has spent 35 years hiking, fishing, bicycling, hunting, and skiing throughout the Rocky Mountain region, but still hasn’t had enough of it. During college in the mid-1960s, he worked on a trail crew in Glacier National Park and became a hiking addict. He spent the 1970s publishing the Montana Outdoors magazine for the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks and freelancing for outdoor magazines. In 1979, Bill co-founded Falcon Publishing. As a longtime freelance writer, Bill has written twenty books and many magazine articles on wildlife, outdoor recreation, and environmental issues. For twelve years, he also taught classes on bicycling, backpacking, zero-impact camping, and hiking in bear country for the Yellowstone Institute, a nonprofit educational organization in Yellowstone National Park. Since the early 1980s, he has been helping people train for their first marathon with his “Anybody Can Run a Marathon: clinic. In 2000, Bill retired from his position as president of Falcon Publishing (now part of The Globe Pequot Press) after it had grown into the premier publisher of outdoor recreation guidebooks, now with nearly 1,000 titles in print. He currently lives in Helena, Montana and works as a publishing consultant and freelance writer.
