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“Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail” by Cheryl Strayed

April 27, 2012

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You can read this as a personal and moving memoir but you can also read this as one hiker’s adventure. A little background: the Pacific Crest Trail is a 2,650 mile scenic trail that runs from Mexico through the US to Canada. Now the adventure: Having hit a very low point in her life, the author, Cheryl Strayed, hiked about 1,100 miles of the Trail by herself through California, Oregon and Washington. As she tells the story, she not only recovered emotionally along the way, she also navigated encounters with less-than-friendly wildlife (rattlesnakes and bears), exhausting weather conditions (severe heat and record snowfalls) as well as coming to grips with the solitude of hiking on ones own. It’s just a reminder that sometimes all we need is a little more nature in our lives.

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