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I'd like to check that out, thanks for mentioning it Carl-LaFong!

Bill Bryson wrote a great book about hiking (part of) the Appalachian Trail - A Walk in the Woods. Very informative and amusing.
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I've read Wild; I enjoyed reading about the experience of being on such a trail.
I didn't care much for the sexual exploits of the narrator I'm not judging her, it just doesn't interest me to read about, as much as the actual trail experience itself and how a person survives that.
I actually knew a retired older woman who hiked the Appalachian Trail with a friend.
She was in her 60s and just decided it was something she wanted to do. Her daughter went ballistic worrying about her, but she was very organized and had done her research. It was going to take something like three months, maybe more, I can't remember.
I moved away while she was still on the trail, and I never got to hear about her return and what the hike was like, however.
I've always been pissed off about missing out on hearing how things went for her.

From lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail by: Cheryl Strayed?
What did you think of it?
I had never heard of this trail nor did I know there were people out there who hike for months at a time and hike from one part of the country to another, hundreds of miles sometimes over a thousand miles. I found the description of the hike very fascinating and interesting.
I have not read this book and nor have I seen the film, but your post reminded me of a book I did read as a kid in the early 1970s:
The High Adventure of Eric Ryback
.
The titular hiker had been a teenager who had already hiked the Appalachian Trail before he embarked on his months-long 1970 effort to hike from Canada to Mexico on the Pacific Crest Trail. I really liked his account of the hike, and as kids do, I read the book, or at least favorite parts, over and over; once I even left it accidentally in a movie theater, but I was elated to find that, when I returned after realizing I didn't have it with me, someone had turned it in, and I got it back. Ryback's book, along with Jean's George's young persons' novel
My Side of the Mountain
, made it seem like I was about to become the next Grizzly Adams. Eh, not so much.
Lo, it turns out that Ryback's account, which had riveted me as a kid, might not have been as Simon-pure as advertised: It seems that Ryback, who had claimed to be the first person to "thru-hike," or hike continuously from end to end, the 2600-mile trail, may have hitched a few rides here and there, and thus he did not hike every inch of the trail unassisted. How our idols keep getting shattered, or at least bruised.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/cheating-their-way-to-fame-the-top-9-adventure-travel-hoaxes-24473354/
I have not hiked the PCT, but I have hiked to it before. Years ago, my then-wife and I were up at Big Bear Lake, about 6700 feet up in California's San Bernardino Mountains, in the summer and hiked the Cougar Crest Trail, which had about two miles of gradually steepening switchback trail to get to the top of the ridge, where the trail ends at the Pacific Crest Trail. "Which way do you want to go now?" I asked my wife. "North to Canada? Or south to Mexico?" As it turned out, we didn't have time to push on another half-mile or so to Bertha Peak, which I regret now.
I also learned there was one of these long-distance trails on my side of the U.S. the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Main.
Travel writer Bill Bryson wrote of his attempt to hike from Georgia back to his Maine home using the Appalachian Trail in his book
A Walk in the Woods
. I did not read that book, but last year I did see the movie that stars Robert Redford as Bryson. It wasn't bad.
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