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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. In fact, only a third of all the hikers who set out on the trail that year would finish.
As the group approaches Canada, a storm rages. How will these very different hikers, ranging in age, gender, and background, respond to the hardship and suffering ahead of them? Can they all make the final 60-mile push through freezing temperatures, sleet, and snow, or will some reach their breaking point?
Journeys North is a story of grit, compassion, and the relationships people forge when they strive toward a common goal.
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,484
Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the Internet. The city makes her numb, and she's having trouble connecting with others. In a desperate move, she breaks away from everything to walk 2,660 miles from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. It will be her first long-distance hike.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Like an infinity of switchbacks...it just never ended
- De Anonymous User en 12-20-17
De: Carrot Quinn
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Thirst
- 2600 Miles to Home
- De: Heather Anderson
- Narrado por: Heather Costa
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 630
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 553
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
- De Travis M. Smith en 07-11-19
De: Heather Anderson
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The Unlikely Thru-Hiker
- An Appalachian Trail Journey
- De: Derick Lugo
- Narrado por: Derick Lugo
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 509
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 462
Derick Lugo had never been hiking. He certainly couldn't imagine going more than a day without manicuring his goatee. But with a job cut short and no immediate plans, this fixture of the New York comedy scene began to think about what he might do with months of free time. He had heard of the Appalachian Trail, but he had never seriously considered attempting to hike all 2,184.2 miles of it. Suddenly he found himself asking, Could he do it?
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5 out of 5 stars
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On My Feet All Day
- De bannedbum en 08-21-21
De: Derick Lugo
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Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail: Mexico to Canada
- De: Bruce Nelson
- Narrado por: Bruce "Buck" Nelson
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 118
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 118
One April morning I left the Mexico border and walked north on the Pacific Crest Trail. For five months I hiked through the California desert, the snows of the Sierra Nevada, and the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington. My goal was to succeed in an epic challenge: to hike 2,650 miles and reach Canada before the October snows.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Trail journal published for money...
- De Ronda en 07-04-19
De: Bruce Nelson
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AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
- De: David Miller
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,717
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,107
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,088
In 2003, software engineer David Miller left his job, family, and friends to hike 2,172 miles of the Appalachian Trail. AWOL on the Appalachian Trail is Miller’s account of this thru-hike from Georgia to Maine. Listeners are treated to rich descriptions of the Appalachian Mountains, the isolation and reverie, the inspiration that fueled his quest, and the rewards of taking a less conventional path through life. While this book abounds with introspection and perseverance, it also provides useful passages about hiking gear and planning.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable but severely lacking.
- De Amazon Customer en 07-01-13
De: David Miller
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Mud, Rocks, Blazes
- Letting Go on the Applachian Trail
- De: Heather Anderson
- Narrado por: Chelsea Stephens
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 497
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 440
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 439
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
- De RugerM77 en 03-30-21
De: Heather Anderson
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Divided
- A Walk on the Continental Divide Trail
- De: Brian Cornell
- Narrado por: Zac Katz-Stein
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 60
Once a person hikes a long trail, they catch the bug, but does it get any easier the second time around? Four years after starting the Appalachian Trail with his brother, Brian takes to the Continental Divide Trail for his second thru-hike in familiar company. However, trail life is not always as rewarding and romantic as the pictures you see or second-hand stories you hear.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Generalities and platitudes
- De RLCalhoun en 12-13-22
De: Brian Cornell
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North
- De: Scott Jurek, Jenny Jurek
- Narrado por: Scott Jurek, Jenny Jurek
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,270
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,880
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,873
Scott Jurek is one of the world's best known and most beloved ultrarunners. Renowned for his remarkable endurance and speed, accomplished on a vegan diet, he's finished first in nearly all of ultrarunning's elite events over the course of his career. But after two decades of racing, training, speaking, and touring, Jurek felt an urgent need to discover something new about himself. He embarked on a wholly unique challenge, one that would force him to grow as a person and as an athlete: breaking the speed record for the Appalachian Trail.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Couldn’t take Jenny
- De M. Bissett en 08-27-18
De: Scott Jurek, y otros
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The Trail
- A Novel
- De: Ethan Gallogly
- Narrado por: Jake Hunsbusher
- Duración: 16 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 417
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 381
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!
- De JocelynF en 02-24-22
De: Ethan Gallogly
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk
- The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
- De: Ben Montgomery
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,645
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,314
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,304
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
- De David Shear en 12-22-14
De: Ben Montgomery
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Bliss(ters)
- How I walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer
- De: Gail M. Francis
- Narrado por: Wendy Tremont King
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 270
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 239
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 239
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
- De CHRISTOPHER en 03-14-19
De: Gail M. Francis
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Lost on Purpose
- The Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man, Book 1
- De: Patrick Taylor
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 202
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 201
Lost on Purpose is the nonfiction adventure narrative of a former technology executive who took leave of the real world to reinvent himself as a 21st-century mountain man. In October-November 2013, Patrick Taylor crossed the Rocky Mountains alone on foot. He passed through one of the largest wilderness areas in the lower 48 to reach and retrace the route of Lewis and Clark in the winter. The sacrifices - vocationally, financially, emotionally - are measured against the benefits by the author in a refreshingly honest, humorous, and inspirational fashion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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get lost, in this story!
- De Chris en 11-27-22
De: Patrick Taylor
I didn’t want it to end.
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Keller’s Dad
A Must Read!
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Feels like you’re on the trail too
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I loved it
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All the peoples stories
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Really enjoyed this.
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Like a hiker, it moves slow but plows ahead without a glitch.
Will re-visit.
A bit different
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I loved this book! Especially the part where Barney & Sandy worked at the same summer camp as o did about 10 years later! We have a couple of the same friends.
Adventures are your dreams in action! Live them!
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Great story
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A Must Read!
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