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Then the Hail Came
- A Humorous and Truthful Account of a 1983 Appalachian Trail Thru-hike
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 21 hrs and 24 mins
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“Then the Hail Came” is the true story of George Steffanos on his quest to become more than just a two pack a day looser by finally completing something significant in his life - The Appalachian Trail. It is true that everyone who hikes the A.T. has their share of misfortune, but for George, it seems like a daily occurrence, yet he continues to put his best foot forward. All the ups and downs are described poignantly with humor as he manages to provide wonderful descriptions of the characters he meets, and the surrounding landscape encountered through all 2138 miles from Georgia to Maine. Inspired by the events of his journey, he weaves fanciful dream interludes throughout, while beginning to change and grow as a person while hiking "The Trail." Along the way he realizes the people he encounters on the Appalachian Trail are as crazy as the ones he hung around with at home - He just wishes that he had “come prepared for that with more food.”
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By the time life had finished hitting Rick Crandall from all sides, he was at the lowest point of his life, both personally and professionally. His wife, Pamela, makes an astute and life-changing suggestion: "Let's get a dog." So begins the story of Emme, a 200-pound Saint Bernard trapped in the body of a five-pound Australian terrier puppy. Soon, Emme and Rick hit the hiking trails around Aspen, Colorado. While she is groomed to be a show dog, it's soon obvious that her heart is in the hills and with Rick, who decides to add more challenging hikes to the mix.
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5 out of 5 stars
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until we meet again, find peace in heavens hands!!
- By Frango on 02-09-21
By: Rick Crandall, and others
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Thirst
- 2600 Miles to Home
- By: Heather Anderson
- Narrated by: Heather Costa
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 591
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 519
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 516
By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and Continental Divide Trail - a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her job, her marriage, and a dissatisfied life and walked back into those mountains. In her new memoir, Heather shares her distinct message of courage - her willingness to turn away from the predictability of a more traditional life in an effort to seek out what most fulfills her.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great accomplishment, flat story
- By Travis M. Smith on 07-11-19
By: Heather Anderson
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Journeys North
- The Pacific Crest Trail
- By: Barney Scout Mann
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 808
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 725
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Story5 out of 5 stars 724
In Journeys North, legendary trail angel, thru hiker, and former PCTA board member Barney Scout Mann spins a compelling tale of six hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2007 as they walk from Mexico to Canada. This ensemble story unfolds as these half-dozen hikers - including Barney and his wife, Sandy - trod north, slowly forming relationships and revealing their deepest secrets and aspirations. They face a once-in-a-generation drought and early severe winter storms that test their will in this bare-knuckled adventure.
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2 out of 5 stars
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very disappointing
- By Carol M. on 05-15-21
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Mud, Rocks, Blazes
- Letting Go on the Applachian Trail
- By: Heather Anderson
- Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 481
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 424
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 423
Despite her success setting a self-supported Fastest Known Time record on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2013, Heather “Anish” Anderson still had such deep-seated insecurities that she became convinced her feat had been a fluke. So two years later she set out again, this time hiking through mud, rocks, and mountain blazes to crush her constant self-doubt and seek the true source of her strength and purpose. The 2,189 miles of the Appalachian Trail, from Maine to Georgia, did not make it easy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good story.... of self doubt and self pity
- By RugerM77 on 03-30-21
By: Heather Anderson
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Thousand-Miler
- Adventures Hiking the Ice Age Trail
- By: Melanie Radzicki McManus
- Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 90
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 78
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Story4 out of 5 stars 76
In 36 thrilling days, Melanie Radzicki McManus hiked 1,100 miles around Wisconsin, landing her in the elite group of Ice Age Trail thru-hikers known as the Thousand-Milers. In prose that's alternately harrowing and humorous, Thousand-Miler takes you with her through Wisconsin's forests, prairies, wetlands, and farms, past the geologic wonders carved by long-ago glaciers, and into the neighborhood bars and gathering places of far-flung small towns.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what I thought it would be
- By Justin wright on 01-29-19
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk
- The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
- By: Ben Montgomery
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,475
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,162
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,152
Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than $200. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, atop Maine's Mount Katahdin, she sang the first verse of "America, the Beautiful" and proclaimed, "I said I'll do it, and I've done it."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring story about a strong amazing woman
- By David Shear on 12-22-14
By: Ben Montgomery
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The Twenty-Ninth Day
- Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra
- By: Alex Messenger
- Narrated by: Alex Messenger
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,328
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,084
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,071
This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts 17-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they paddle north through harrowing rapids and stunning terrain. Twenty-nine days into the trip, while out hiking alone, Alex is attacked by a barren-ground grizzly. Left for dead, he wakes to find that his summer adventure has become a struggle to stay alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Will stir the adventurous spirit
- By Jim L. on 11-26-19
By: Alex Messenger
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The Trail
- A Novel
- By: Ethan Gallogly
- Narrated by: Jake Hunsbusher
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 233
The Trail is a moving story of how nature helps us find what’s missing in our lives. The tale begins with Gil, who in the wake of his father’s death and recently fired from his job, agrees to accompany his father’s old hiking partner Syd on a month-long trek on the John Muir Trail. There’s just one problem: Gil hates camping and is woefully unprepared for the rigors of the journey. Moreover, he soon learns Syd may not survive the hike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audible version - excellent!
- By JocelynF on 02-24-22
By: Ethan Gallogly
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Just off for a Walk
- By: Stephen Reynolds
- Narrated by: Geoff Cummings
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
What happens when a 37-year-old office worker, who exercises marginally less than the average cheese sandwich, decides to walk 630 miles of challenging coastline in one go? Will he go on an epic voyage of self-discovery...or just get really knackered? Find out the answers to these important questions, and many more, by joining him on a grand adventure that takes in 26,719 steps, 921 stiles, 302 bridges, 91,000 feet of climbing and descending, one seal, zero basking sharks, lots of chips and one overweight, oversize backpack.
By: Stephen Reynolds
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Force of Nature
- Three Women Tackle the John Muir Trail
- By: Joan M. Griffin
- Narrated by: Anna Crowe
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story5 out of 5 stars 31
Three friends, women in their fifties, set out to hike "the most beautiful long-distance trail in the world," the John Muir Trail. From the outset, their adventure is complicated by self-inflicted accidents and ferocious weather, then enriched when they "adopt" a young hiker abandoned by her partner along the trail.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved♥️ A treasure for me♥️
- By Anita Hill on 04-07-24
By: Joan M. Griffin
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Lost!
- A Harrowing True Story of Disaster at Sea
- By: Thomas Thompson
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 103
In July 1973, Bob Tininenko, his wife Linda, and his brother in-law Jim Fisher set sail from Tacoma, Washington, on a 31-foot trimaran, down the West Coast to Costa Rica. The journey was expected to take a matter of weeks, but 10 days into the cruise, the party encountered a freak storm off the coast of Northern California. When gale-force winds and 50-foot waves capsized their boat, the voyage became a nightmare. For 72 days, the trio was lost at sea. Challenged by nature and compromised by a bitter rivalry, their courage and will to live was put to the ultimate test.
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4 out of 5 stars
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this book was WAY over the top with religion.
- By LisalouRN on 01-19-20
By: Thomas Thompson
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Becoming Odyssa
- Adventures on the Appalachian Trail
- By: Jennifer Pharr Davis
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pharr Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 396
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 349
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 348
After graduating from college, Jennifer isn't sure what she wants to do with her life. She is drawn to the Appalachian Trail, a 2,175-mile footpath that stretches from Georgia to Maine. Though her friends and family think she's crazy, she sets out alone to hike the trail, hoping it will give her time to think about what she wants to do next. The next four months are the most physically and emotionally challenging of her life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just read WILD again.
- By Candice Philpot on 10-02-20
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Bliss(ters)
- How I walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer
- By: Gail M. Francis
- Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 241
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 211
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Story4 out of 5 stars 211
Just before her 40th birthday, Gail Francis quit her perfectly good job and set out to hike one of the great trails of the world. Carrying everything she needed on her back, Francis spent five months walking from Mexico to Canada along the Pacific Crest Trail. Along the way, she lost her pack scrambling over scree in the desert, struggled to navigate high mountain passes, and wore the soles off her boots trekking across lava fields - all within some of the most pristine wilderness in the nation. Though she set out alone, her story includes an eclectic cast of characters.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bummer
- By CHRISTOPHER on 03-14-19
By: Gail M. Francis
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A Shape in the Dark
- Living and Dying with Brown Bears
- By: Bjorn Dihle
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Wilderness guide and lifelong Alaskan Bjorn Dihle weaves personal experience with historical and contemporary accounts to explore the world of brown bears - from encounters with the Lewis and Clark Expedition to frightening attacks including the famed death of Timothy Treadwell, the controversies related to bear hunting, the animal's place in native cultures, and the impacts on the species from habitat degradation and climate change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of the most unexpected joys in my library
- By Carl D. Smith on 08-11-21
By: Bjorn Dihle
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Walking Thru
- A Couple’s Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail
- By: Michael Tyler
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 105
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 94
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Story4 out of 5 stars 93
Bored and fed up with life, staring down a 50th birthday, Mike Tyler was looking for a change. Life had become routinized and unexciting. Maybe it was a mid-life crisis, or maybe just a yearning for one last big adventure. Mike decides to try hiking from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail, just to see what happens. Mike convinces his wife, Margo, to join him. Together, they embark on a five-month hike full of anticipation. They hike through some of the most stunning and remote places in the country on a trail full of unique, offbeat characters.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just Eh...
- By Carrie Ann on 07-18-22
By: Michael Tyler
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Backpacking with the Saints
- Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice
- By: Belden C. Lane
- Narrated by: Jim Denison
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Carrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the world's great spiritual writings, Belden C. Lane embarks on solitary spiritual treks through the Ozarks and across the American Southwest. For companions, he has only such teachers as Rumi, John of the Cross, Hildegard of Bingen, Dag Hammarskjöld, and Thomas Merton, and as he walks, he engages their writings with the natural wonders he encounters, demonstrating how being alone in the wild opens a rare view onto one's interior landscape, and how the saints' writings reveal the divine in nature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book
- By Andrew on 06-04-20
By: Belden C. Lane
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When You Find My Body
- The Disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail
- By: D. Dauphinee
- Narrated by: Traci Odom
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 457
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 405
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 404
When Geraldine "Gerry" Largay first went missing on the Appalachian Trail in remote western Maine in 2013, the people of Maine were wrought with concern. When she was not found, the family, the wardens, and the Navy personnel who searched for her were devastated. The Maine Warden Service continued to follow leads for more than a year. They never completely gave up the search. Two years after her disappearance, her bones and scattered possessions were found by chance by two surveyors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sincere and Respectful
- By Bethany Carter on 07-30-19
By: D. Dauphinee
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- 03-18-24
Lone trail long listen
This story from 1983 is the typical through hiker experience of trials and tribulations with growth and setbacks.
A descent list to in the background. You don’t have to pay close attention to the story.
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