Bill Maurer and David Crerar weren’t originally planning to write a book — they just wanted to climb every peak on the North Shore mountains.
But after hiking all 66 mountains, the North Shore residents turned their outdoor adventuring into a guidebook that explores the relatively unknown histories of these mountain and the routes to summit them.
“The mountains are right here,” Maurer said, explaining why he wanted to climb them all.
When he first started as part of a running club competition to “peak bag” — summit as many mountains on a list as possible in a season — he realized
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