Walking The Appalachian Trail

Author : Larry Luxenberg
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811744019
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking the Appalachian Trail written by Larry Luxenberg and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts by thru-hikers, organized by topic. Foreword by hiker Maurice Forrester and stunning color photos by Mike Warren.

Author : Paul Stutzman
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 0800720539
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hiking Through written by Paul Stutzman and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With breathtaking descriptions and humorous anecdotes from his 2,176-mile journey along the Appalachian Trail, Paul Stutzman reveals how immersing himself in nature and befriending fellow hikers helped him recover from a devastating loss.

Author : Chris Cage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781520300627
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Hike the Appalachian Trail: a Comprehensive Guide to Plan and Prepare for a Successful Thru-Hike written by Chris Cage and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know to complete your thru-hike. The AT is a life changing experience and an amazing accomplishment. Half of the battle is proper preparation. This book is everything I wish I would have known before setting off on my thru-hike. Complete with personal tips and experiences. Learn how to budget wisely, save money and not waste cash. Know how to allocate 6 months of your time and plan your exit. Master your gear with a massive guide on everything from your spork to your tent. Understand clothing, layering and materials. Hear about what life is really like on the trail. Know which direction to go, when and why. Familiarize yourself with a state by state breakdown of the trail. Learn how to mentally prepare an optimistic framework for the "I-wanna-quit-days". Understand the physical demands and methods to prevent injury. Prepare yourself for the nutritional needs with food ideas and favorite meal plans. Know the REAL dangers on the AT. "Female Needs" section from AT record-holder Heather 'Anish' Anderson. And a whole lot more...

Author : Earl Victor Shaffer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780917953842
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking with Spring written by Earl Victor Shaffer and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's account of his four-month hike in 1948 of the entire length of the Appalachian Trail.

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385674546
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Walk in the Woods written by Bill Bryson and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.

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Publisher : SonicTrek, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0976581213
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hike Your Own Hike written by and published by SonicTrek, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Ryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977696819
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gentle Art of Wandering written by David Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9780977696826
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long Distance Hiking on the Appalachian Trail for the Older Adventurer written by and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leslie Mass
Publisher : Rock Spring Press Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0976568608
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Beauty May She Walk written by Leslie Mass and published by Rock Spring Press Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2000, inspired by her father, Leslie Mass decided she would turn a lifelong fantasy into reality. At the age of 59 she began to train for a grueling journey ? a thru-hike of the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail. In Beauty May She Walk chronicles Leslie?s struggles and triumphs during her hike. On the trail, Leslie struggles with how to balance the needs of her family and friends while making the trail a priority; how to shed years of social conditioning that dictate how a woman should act; and how to know when to ask for help, while understanding that sometimes, help has to come from within. For the first few weeks, Leslie learns how to pitch a tent in the rain, keep animals out of her food, and lighten the load on her back. As the terrain toughens, she struggles to physically keep up with the trail community she depends on socially to keep going, and realizes the difficulty of maintaining her obligations to family and friends while focusing her efforts on putting one foot in front of the other, every day. And after September 11, 2001, she copes with being seemingly the only hiker on the trails for miles, eventually forcing her to change her definition of ?hiking her own hike.? A suburban college professor, Leslie is just like any other woman you might pass on the grocery aisle. Her story is an inspiring physical and mental journey to reach the goal of a lifetime.

Author : Kristi M. Fondren
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813571901
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking on the Wild Side written by Kristi M. Fondren and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most famous long-distance hiking trail in North America, the 2,181-mile Appalachian Trail—the longest hiking-only footpath in the world—runs along the Appalachian mountain range from Georgia to Maine. Every year about 2,000 individuals attempt to “thru-hike” the entire trail, a feat equivalent to hiking Mount Everest sixteen times. In Walking on the Wild Side, sociologist Kristi M. Fondren traces the stories of forty-six men and women who, for their own personal reasons, set out to conquer America’s most well known, and arguably most social, long-distance hiking trail. In this fascinating in-depth study, Fondren shows how, once out on the trail, this unique subculture of hikers lives mostly in isolation, with their own way of acting, talking, and thinking; their own vocabulary; their own activities and interests; and their own conception of what is significant in life. They tend to be self-disciplined, have an unwavering trust in complete strangers, embrace a life of poverty, and reject modern-day institutions. The volume illuminates the intense social intimacy and bonding that forms among long-distance hikers as they collectively construct a long-distance hiker identity. Fondren describes how long-distance hikers develop a trail persona, underscoring how important a sense of place can be to our identity, and to our sense of who we are. Indeed, the author adds a new dimension to our understanding of the nature of identity in general. Anyone who has hiked—or has ever dreamed of hiking—the Appalachian Trail will find this volume fascinating. Walking on the Wild Side captures a community for whom the trail is a sacred place, a place to which they have become attached, socially, emotionally, and spiritually.