C. Russell Dunn is a retired New York State-licensed hiking guide and the author of many regional outdoors and history-oriented hiking guidebooks, including Adirondack Waterfall Guide: New York's Cool Cascade; Catskill Region Waterfall Guide; Trails with Tales: History Hikes through the Capital Region, Saratoga, Berkshires, Catskills and Hudson Valley; and Paths to the Past: History Hikes through the Hudson River Valley, Catskills, Berkshires, Taconics, Saratoga and Capital Region, (the latter two cowritten with his wife, Barbara Delaney). He lives in Albany, New York.