The Trail Home describes my 2,650 mile trek on the Pacific Crest Trail and the internal transformation that occurred along the way. Starting in southern California and heading northward, I spent six months journeying through some of the most spectacular landscapes in America, from the arid deserts of the southwest to the High Sierras and the Cascade Mountains. Ultimately, I would arrive at the Canadian border in mid October, but I was no longer the same person as when I began. The Trail Home describes the intertwined, dual journey that I would undertake the external journey exploring the physical landscape and the internal journey exploring the landscape of my soul. I came to the realization as I hiked along the Pacific Crest Trail that we live fragmented and disjointed lives. We have been promised happiness and fulfillment from a culture mired in materialism, competition, and shallowness. As a result of following the pathway to success laid out before me, my life had become fragmented without any real meaning: my spirituality had stagnated; my intellectual curiosity had deteriorated; my imagination had atrophied. As I walked northward along the trail, the sheer steadfastness of the land its permanence, patience, and endurance seeped into my soul. The rhythm of the landscape slowed my pace and calmed my spirit, allowing a new, more spiritual life to unfold within me, often leaving me in tears. By the end of the hike, I had recaptured the lost harmony that feeds the mind, body, and soul and I became whole again.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
disappointing read,
By booknut (Mountain View, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Trail Home: Along the Pacific Crest (Paperback)
I'm addicted to reading books about thru-hiking on either the PCT or the AT, but this book seems to get bogged down in minutiae, describing every rock, tree and mountain along the way with little reference at all to the human aspect of this great adventure. This is a book about two old friends who have not seen each other in many years but came together again to hike the PCT. Yet there are only 1 or 2 references to their relationship and a sentence or two about their conversations along the way. One gets little sense of the actual journey from reading this book.
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As I plunge down the rocky trail cluttered with forlorn patches of crusty snow, a razor-sharp and ruler-straight treeless groove in the solid carpet of trees on the next ridge electrifies me. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Trail Home, Oak Ridge, Kennedy Meadows, Kenyon College, United States, Los Angeles, Tuolumne Meadows, Chips Creek, Crater Lake, Lone Pine, Pacific Crest Trail, Warner Springs, First Communion, Goat Rocks, Manning Park, Timberline Lodge, Glacier Peak, Grapevine Mountain, Lassen Peak, Liebre Mountain, Scissors Crossing, Snoqualmie Pass, Sonora Pass, Tehachapi Mountains, White Pass New!
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As I plunge down the rocky trail cluttered with forlorn patches of crusty snow, a razor-sharp and ruler-straight treeless groove in the solid carpet of trees on the next ridge electrifies me. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Trail Home, Oak Ridge, Kennedy Meadows, Kenyon College, United States, Los Angeles, Tuolumne Meadows, Chips Creek, Crater Lake, Lone Pine, Pacific Crest Trail, Warner Springs, First Communion, Goat Rocks, Manning Park, Timberline Lodge, Glacier Peak, Grapevine Mountain, Lassen Peak, Liebre Mountain, Scissors Crossing, Snoqualmie Pass, Sonora Pass, Tehachapi Mountains, White Pass New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Surprise Me!
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