Craig Romano laughed when asked if he's a "professional hiker."

He prefers to call himself a "full-time outdoors writer." But to do that job requires a lot of time on the trail.

Romano hiked 800 miles in 13 months researching the routes for his latest guidebook, "Day Hiking Columbia River Gorge." That overlapped with another 1,500 miles he put on his hiking boots for his upcoming book, "Backpacking Washington."

In the past few years, he has become the foremost author of hiking books The Mountaineers Books, which offers the most extensive series of hiking guidebooks for the Pacific Northwest.

He shared some of his favorite Gorge-area hikes during a high-energy talk before the Willapa Hills Audubon Society this week at Lower Columbia College.

Romano, 49, is a relative latecomer to the region. He grew up in New Hampshire, where he was a backcountry ranger in New Hampshire's White Mountains. He was also a guide in the Pyrenees of France and Spain.

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