Bill Ingersoll was a founding board member of Adirondack Wilderness Advocates, formed in 2016 to speak on behalf of the wilderness character of the Forest Preserve. He has hiked, paddled, and backpacked in wilderness areas across the United States but feels most at home in the grand forests of the Adirondacks. He has published several guidebooks, including "Snowshoe Routes: Adirondacks & Catskills" (The Mountaineers Books, 2006) and "50 Hikes in the Adirondack Mountains" (The Countryman Press, 2019).