<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I enjoyed Skywalker's, Bill Walker's books on the AT and PCT, a sense of humor and no posturing. I enjoyed every page.</span><div class="yj6qo ajU" style="outline:none;padding:10px 0px;width:22px;margin:2px 0px 0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:31 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cicelyb250@aol.com" target="_blank">cicelyb250@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">To prepare for the AT, I read so many journals and way back then(late 90's) Yogi's still stands out. For a book, There are Mountains to Climb by Jean Deeds spoke to me. Here was an "old" lady my age who actually hiked the trail.</font></div>
<div>For the PCT the only thru hiker book I found was A Blistered Kind of Love by Angela Ballard.</div>
<div>Funny - both of these books were written by hikers who had to go back and finish parts that they couldn't do in a single season.</div>
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<div>Today when people realized I've hiked all three trails, they never mention the books above, only Wild and A Walk in the Woods.</div>
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<div><span>Oh yes, I enjoyed both books for what they are.</span></div>
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<div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Walk in the Woods was an enjoyable "airport" book. Something light to kill two hours during a layover. Amusing and fun.</span></div>
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<div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Wild? Well, I did not enjoy as much. Too schmaltzy for my taste. But I do recognize it as well done writing and the</span></div>
<div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>"coming of age" story does appeal to many people.</span></div>
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<div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Were they books about thru-hiking? No.</span></div>
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<div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>But who cares...they weren't meant to be books about thru-hiking. :)</span></div>
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<div style="font-size:16px;font-style:normal;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Much like the trails, enjoy them for what they are rather then what you want them to be. </div>
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