A Walk for Sunshine: A 2,160 Mile Expedition for Charity on the Appalachian Trail
10 best books like A Walk for Sunshine: A 2,160 Mile Expedition for Charity on the Appalachian Trail (Jeff Alt): Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail, Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail, Just Passin' Thru: A Vintage Store, the Appalachian Trail, and a Cast of Unforgettable Characters, Appalachian Trials: A Psychological and Emotional Guide to Successfully Thru-Hiking The Appalachian Trail, Three Hundred Zeroes: Lessons of the Heart on the Appalachian Trail, Skywalker: Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail, Between a Rock and a White Blaze: Searching for Significance on the Appalachian Trail, Hiking Through: Finding Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trail, The Trail Provides: A Boy's Memoir of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
| Author | Ben Montgomery |
| ISBN | 1613747187 |
Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography
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 two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother...
| Author | Suzanne Roberts |
| ISBN | 0803240120 |
Day One, and already she was lying in her journal. It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future. But she never...
Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail
Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the internet. The city makes her feel 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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| Author | Winton Porter |
| ISBN | 0897328493 |
Like a well-crafted stage play, Just Passin' Thru delivers one suspenseful scene after another. But in this historic setting — a store on the Appalachian Trail called Mountain Crossings — the characters who show up are no fictional creations. They are the real-life stars of the author’s new...
Each year, it is estimated that more than 2,000 people set out to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail, yet seven in ten ultimately fall short of their goal. Given the countless number of how-to books and websites offering information about logistics, gear, and endurance training, one would think that...
| Author | Dennis R. Blanchard |
| ISBN | 1450557465 |
Dennis Blanchard's promise to his brother haunted him for over forty years. Finally, when there were no more excuses, he set out on the Appalachian Trail to fulfill that promise. He learned that walking in the wilderness can reconnect one with a Norman Rockwell America that at times seems long lost and...
| Author | Bill Walker |
| ISBN | 1934144266 |
Why would a middle-aged businessman who had never even spent the night outdoors, attempt to hike the entire Appalachian Trail? Bill Walker, a former commodities trader in Chicago and London, and an avid walker, had developed a virtual obsession to hike this historic 2,175 mile footpath in one hiking...
Four years removed from her first long-distance hike on the Pacific Crest Trail, Julie, aka Stopwatch, is ready to embark on another thru-hike, this time following the white blazes of the Appalachian Trail, a 2181 mile continuous footpath from Georgia to Maine. She is accompanied by her husband, Matt,...
| Author | Paul V. Stutzman |
| ISBN | 0984076050 |
After losing his wife to breast cancer, Paul Stutzman decided to make some big changes. He quit his job of seventeen years and embarked upon a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail, a 2,176-mile stretch of varying terrain spanning fourteen states. During his nearly five-month-long hike, he battled brutal...
The Trail Provides: A Boy's Memoir of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
| Author | David Smart |
| ISBN | 1723785458 |
There’s a saying used by hikers when extraordinary, serendipitous things happen on the trail—the trail provides. David Smart discovered his own first-hand lessons from the trail. Disillusioned by life after college, David resigned from his corporate marketing job and hiked the Pacific Crest...
Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
| Author | Heather "Anish" Anderson |
| ISBN | 1680512366 |
By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT)—a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her...
