Phillip Gary Smith authored "Ultra Superior," the only book on the Superior Trail Ultra Events then wrote "HARMONIZING: KEYS to Living in the Song of Life" from his personal life experiences. Discovering the accomplishment of ultra-athlete Roberto Marron led to the story "The 300-Mile Man: Roberto Marron Doubles Tuscobia’s Winter Ultra 150." He followed this account with "300-Mile Man: Triple Crown Edition" that expands the Marron Double along with explaining the Order of the Hrimthurs along with other first hand accounts of these difficult endurance events in the middle of a northern winter. He is Senior Editor at Snowshoe Magazine where he writes extensively Senior "Media Matters" Columnist at Radioactive Drag Racing News Senior Writer for the United States Snowshoe Association (USSSA) Senior Writer for the International Snowshoe Federation Senior Writer for SaveTheMonarchs.org Foundation Writer/Correspondent for other magazines. Phillip is the country’s most prolific snowshoe writer, featured in the New York Times, magazines and newspapers. He won the 2012 Snowshoe Person of the Year. Wynn Davis, creator of the Chippewa Moraine 50km Ultra Trail Race, spoke of Phillip’s snowshoe finish of that difficult race when a freak snowstorm covered the trail on the morning of the race: "Phillip Gary Smith did the unthinkable--looking like a castaway, but he had done it--ran the entire ungroomed snow-covered 50 km footrace in snowshoes!"