![]() ![]() His writing contains a lot of dry humor and is a bit pessimistic. If you’re looking for a good book that will make you laugh out loud until your sides hurt, all while learning about the history of the Appalachian Trail (AT), this is the hiking book for you.īill Bryson writes books about traveling the UK, Europe, Australia, and the US in several books over the years. No Spoilers, I promise! A Walk In The Woods By Bill Bryson Let’s take a quick dive into what you might expect from each book. These two books take very different looks at thru-hiking from a newbie’s perspective. That has got to take some serious guts!īut, that is exactly what the authors of both A Walk In The Woods and Wild do. And I’m not talking just a part of it, but rather the whole 2100+ miles of it. So imagine this: rather than choosing a small trail as your first backpacking excursion, you choose to hike the Appalachian Trail. As a result, mental energy is often what gets you through. ![]() ![]() Carrying that much gear is exhausting: your feet begin to ache like never before, with each step your boots feel more and more like lead, and boy oh boy the blisters. I’ve only completed one such trip in my hiking career so far, and… I drastically overpacked. A look at two hiking books, and how newbie hikers approach thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail ( A Walk In The Woods) and the Pacific Crest Trail ( Wild).īackpacking trips as a newbie are challenging. ![]()
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