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In the wake of her mother's death, Cheryl Strayed's family scattered and her marriage was destroyed. Four years later, twenty-six years old with nothing to lose, Cheryl made the decision to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert to Washington State - alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker and the trail was little more than an idea. But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone.
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"True story of six thru-hikers whose journeys cross and eventually combine in a thrilling finale"--
In 2007, Mann (known as Scout), his wife Sandy (known as Frodo), and four other hikers set out on the Pacific Crest Trail, walking from Mexico to Canada. Slowly forming relationships and revealing their deepest secrets and aspirations, they face a once-in-a-generation drought and early severe winter storms that test their will. Approaching Canada as...