Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart

An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Carrot Quinn

Narrated by: Erin Spencer

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.

In the desert of Southern California, Carrot faces many challenges, both physical and emotional: pain, injury, blisters, aching cold and searing heat, dehydration, exhaustion, loneliness. In the wilderness she happens upon and becomes close with an eclectic group of strangers - people she wouldn't have chanced to meet in the "regular world" but who are brought together, here on the trail, by their one common goal: to make it to Canada before the snow flies.

©2015 Carrot Quinn (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

a book about how you are hungry if you don't eat

it turns out if you don't buy food, or bit it and trow it away, you won't have food, you will be hungry, and if you don't eat properly you will feel and be sick.
we also find out in this book that if you don't have proper clothes, when it rains, you get wet, and, hear this, then you get cold and you could die.
Also, the proper way to deal with fever, exhaustion, infection and starvation is to walk 25 miles for no reason and not seek or accept help.

Monotonous

I expected a little more depth. Instead it was more about what she ate and what the motel rooms looked like, which she described in greater detail than the landscape. And is she or isn't she gluten free? She talks about it a LOT. Yet so many times on a zero she'd eat a snack cake or cookies or granola then later that day request a lettuce bun for her burger, again claiming she's gluten free.

Another review mentioned the "valley girl" accent of the narrator and that is a spot-on description. Her voice for 14 hours was a feat in and of itself. It's hard to tell if her voice led to the monotony or the drawn-out writing of meaningless conversations that could have been summed up in a single sentence, but listening to this was tedious.

Good book, enjoyed quite a bit.

I really enjoyed listening to this book. I am looking to get back into backpacking and grew up hiking a lot on the PCT. It was nice to hear all of the trials and tribulations that come with backpacking. The story is good, drags on a little in places, but overall was very good. It does get a bit PG-13 towards the end. I was really rooting for the author during that period. Overall I would recommend this to anyone looking to take on the PCT or any long trail.

Set a long sleep timer...

I’ve listened to a couple pct through hiking books and this one is my favorite. The author and STAR is Carrot Quinn who keeps the book cruising at 2mph, just right for the task at hand.
I loved the story so much and I’m impressed with this human carrot who overcomes obstacles on and off the trail. Write anything!!!

Perfect for a loooooong drive

I know this is about hiking 2600miles but I listened to this while driving for 3 days and it was just the most perfect accompaniment. Erin's soothing voice just melted the ks away and also gave me a sense of appreciation when being bored on the drive that it was nothing compared to what Carrot went through. I loved the stories positive perspective for most things that would not have been an easy hike. Thank you.