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Trail Angels: Tales of Generosity and Kindness on the Pacific Crest Trail
In his Seventies, Glenn William Jolley solo backpacked long stretches of the Pacific Crest Trail, the entire John Muir Trail, and the Wonderland Trail claiming there is something compelling and seductive, rich, and extraordinary being alone in the wilderness.
Trail Angels: Stories of Kindness and Generosity along the Pacific Crest Trail takes the reader over high mountain passes, along gentle moving steams, through meadows bursting with colorful wildflowers. But equally important, it is a recounting of the many encounters Glenn had with fellow hikers who became his Trail Angels: some saved him from heading down a path in the wrong direction, some stopped to offer words of encouragement, while others protected him from harm’s way. In the wilderness, so Glenn writes, we often become the people we have often wanted to be – kinder, more trusting, more generous – but for some reason fail to be so in our busy lives back home.
Here are stories of how, given the opportunity, we can become our best selves.
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Almost There: Stories and Musings Along the Pacific Crest Trail
ALMOST THERE takes the reader on a journey of the heart, mind and body of G. William Jolley, who in the late summer and early fall of 2012, and at seventy years of age, solo hiked the Washington Section of the Pacific Crest Trail. Page by page, the reader experiences the PCT with its challenges and beauty, and is invited into an honest and vulnerable look at one man's reflections on life: relationships, influences, and meaningful moments.
Beginning at the trailhead just yards north of the Columbia River Gorge, the journey covers hundreds of miles, crossing pristine creeks and rivers, trudging up switchbacks to high mountain passes, sloshing across snowfields, and meandering through lush meadows. And along the way Jolley encounters Trail Angels and other PCT hikers, while reflecting with candor, humor, and gratitude.
ALMOST THERE will inspire the reader to rethink whether a person is ever too old to go into the wilderness. Indeed, "Old men and women ought to be explorers."
Seattle Backpackers Magazine Summer Book Review – Almost There
RELOAD BOXES
Chapter 9
The subject of supplies and how a PCT hiker gets them comes up in almost any conversation when asked about my experience.
DON'T PEE ON THE FOLIAGE
Chapter 2
On Day Three I had an unobstructed view of Mt. Hood in the distance and the Gorge was still in sight. It was taunting me.
