Recommended Reading

If you are full of wander-lust, or just want to stoke your imagination for travel and adventure, here are some books I highly recommend (more to be added):

• A Walk Across America - Peter Jenkins

• Do Travel Writers Go To Hell? - Thomas Kohnstamm

• Tao of Travel - Paul Theroux

• Vagabonding - Rolf Potts

• The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiesen

• A Passion for Nature:  The Life of John Muir - Donald Worster

• The Happy Isles of Oceana:  Paddling the Pacific - Paul Theroux

• On The Road - Jack Kerouak

• Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer

• Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer (great movie!)

• The Final Frontiersman - James Campbell

• Walden - Henry David Thoreau

• The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey

Below are some hiking narratives I have enjoyed recently.  These have really stoked me for my upcoming PCT Thru-Hike.  It's going to be a long winter and I'll need all the inspiration I can get!:

• The Cactus Eaters:  How I Lost My Mind and Nearly Found Myself on the Pacific Crest Trail - Dan White

• A Blistered Kind of Love:  One Couple's Trial By Trail - Angela Ballard/Duffy Ballard