Almost There: Stories and Musings Along the Pacific Crest Trail
- ISBN-10
- 150841890X
- ISBN-13
- 9781508418900
- Series
- Almost There
- Category
- Hiking
- Pages
- 244
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-03-08
- Author
- G. William Jolley
Description
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."
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