One Hundred Mile Summers
Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada
Eleanor Guilford
This folksy and personal account describes a solo woman hiker’s successful effort to hike the entire 2638-mile Pacific Crest Trail over twenty summers in a 25-year span. The author describes how, beginning with no prior backpacking experience , she completed the PCT over twenty years of hikes, mostly on her summer vacations. Includes abundant details about the Pacific Crest Trail and the highly varied terrain it traverses.
Guilford, a longtime Sierra Club activist, includes tales of May snowstorms in the desert, pet dogs who tag along for days, strangers and friends met along the way, colorful descriptions of the varied terrain, wild animal encounters, quotes from John Muir, and more. The book also includes ideas for traveling light, tips on food drops, solo hiking, low-impact camping, and on getting to and from many of the trailheads without her own personal vehicle.
518 pages, 5-½" x 8-½", full-color cover, overview map of PCT, 5 sketch maps, 28 black & white photographs.
Published by Regent Press. ISBN 1-58790-114-5 trade paper
$19.95
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