David Weintraub is a writer, editor, and photographer based in South Carolina and Massachusetts. Since the early 1950s he has spent summers in Wellfleet on Cape Cod. He is an avid hiker, skier, and kayaker. Weintraub's photographs have been published in numerous books and magazines, including Audubon, Backpacker, Sierra, and Smithsonian. He has authored six guidebooks for Wilderness Press.