When I found out Ray Jardine was publishing a new edition of Beyond
Backpac
king I went to his web site and ordered a copy immediately (it
not yet being in stores at the time). Beyond Backpacking having
gone out of print quite some time ago, I was eager to read this book so many
backpackers talk about. Perhaps the anticipation caused me to have
expectations that were a bit too high. Don’t get me wrong, it is a good
book, with some great ideas and information, I was just expecting,
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This book is basically the trail journal of ‘Mountain Slayer” (Bill
Schuette) on his Appalachian
Trail hike in 2000 – with very little editing.
Although it is a bit of a “rough cut” generally it is well written –
especially considering most of it was written on the trail.
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This is the tale of Karen Berger’s 1990 walk on the Continental Divide Trail
(CDT) from
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These two books have become my new favorites.
Walkin’ On The Happy Side Of Misery by J. R. “Model T” Tate - A
4 time thru-hiker and
Ten Million Steps: The Nimblewill Nomad’s epic 10-month trek from the
Florida Key to Quebec by M. J. Eberhart. This is the
story of walking the entire Appalachian mountain range from Florida to the
far north of Quebec, Canada; a.k.a. The Eastern Continental Trail.
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