<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; ">>>Think of the hundreds (thousands even) of people who tried to
explain the AT experience before Bill Bryson </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; ">>>came out with his best selling
"A Walk in the Woods" I doubt there will ever be such a universal embrace </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; ">>>of someone's trail description to that extent again.<o:p></o:p></span></div></span></div><div></div><div> </div><div><br>WILD by Cheryl Strayed is definitely in this mold for the PCT.</div><div><br></div><div>Became the first choice for Oprah's reborn book club and has sold oodles of copies (including being on the NYT best seller</div><div>list)</div><div>.</div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Expect more people on the PCT in next 3-5 yrs (much like Bryson did for the AT)</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br></div><div>----------------------------<br>Paul "Mags"
Magnanti<br>http://www.pmags.com<br>http://www.twitter.com/pmagsco<br>http://www.facebook.com/pmags<br>-------------------------------<br>The true harvest of my life is intangible.... a little stardust <br>caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched<br>--Thoreau</div></div></body></html>