Marty Basch is a writer, lecturer and storyteller who has written widely on the outdoors, sports, travel and food.
A Boston University graduate, Basch worked as a radio newsman in New York, New Hampshire, Boston and the Middle East (for CBS News), and was employed as a reporter at two New Hampshire newspapers before turning his attention to the outdoors.
He has won awards from the Associated Press for his radio reporting and thrice won the highly-regarded Harold Hirsch Award from the North American Snowsports Journalists Association for his ski writing. One of his books - Winter Trails Vermont and New Hampshire - was noted as a National Outdoor Book Award honorable mention winner. An article he wrote in The Boston Globe was awarded a prestigious gold Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers.
Basch is a longtime Boston Globe correspondent, syndicated outdoor adventure columnist and contributor to many newspapers, magazines and web sites. He is editor of Windswept, the Mount Washington Observatory’s magazine. His work can be found in a number of publications like the Concord Monitor, Valley News, Nashua Telegraph, Caledonian Record, Conway Daily Sun and New Hampshire magazine.
His television work includes on-air talent for Outside TV’s White Mountains Today and being a guest auctioneer during New Hampshire Public Television fund-raising auctions.
Basch has gone on many long-distance bicycle rides:
*Maine to Alaska
*Canada to Mexico along the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route
*Maine to Georgia
*Arctic Scandinavia (Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland)
*Atlantic Canada (New Brunswick, PEI, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador)
He has written six books:
*Against the Wind (Maine to Alaska by bicycle)
*Above the Circle (Arctic Scandinavia by bicycle)
*Twenty Nine Hills (Canada to Mexico by bicycle)
*The White Mountain Ride Guide (1st, 2nd edition)
*Winter Trails Maine
*Winter Trails Vermont and New Hampshire (1st, 2nd edition)
He is a member of:
*Society of American Travel Writers
*North American Snowsports Journalists Association
*Outdoor Writers Association of America
Basch also gives fun storytelling programs and lectures based on his travels and bicycle trips like coming face to face with an Alaskan grizzly bear and having the Royal Canadian Mounted Police called in to track down his stolen bicycle helmet.
Here’s what some have had to say:
“It is only once in a great while that the Friends of the Jackson Public Library have had such an entertaining and well attended speaker program. An evening with Marty Basch telling tales from his bicycling trips was enjoyed by cyclists and non-cyclists alike. A REAL WINNER!” - Betsy Kent, Friends of the Jackson (N.H.) Public Library
If you've ever seen Marty in person, you know exactly how entertaining the evening will be. If you haven't, well... think, "Marx Brothers on bikes." —White Mountain Cafe, Gorham, N.H.
“Your bicycling stories really added a lot to our function. Many people were heard commenting on how much they enjoyed your presentation, some asking, “Where did you find him? He was great!”—Dave Topham, Granite State Wheelmen
Contact info:
He lives on a dirt road in New Hampshire’s White Mountains with his mortgage mate Jan Duprey. Shoot him an e-mail at marty dot basch at gmail dot com (just trying to nip some spam).
