Amazon Travel Department Recommends Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail

Are you looking for something in our Travel Books department? If so, you might be interested in these items. Travel Books Bill Walker is also the author of Skywalker–Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail, The Best Way–El Camino de Santiago, and Getting High–The Annapurna Circuit in...

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Summertime Hiking on the Appalachian Trail

“The weather forecast was invariably the same–always hot and humid with a chance of thunderstorms,” I wrote in Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail. That referred to my thru-hike in 2005. However the same could be said about any summer up and down the Appalachian Mountain Range (weather patterns are very different in the West). Summertime thunderstorms, along with the gut-wrenching fear of getting struck by...

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Amazon Travel Books Recommends ‘Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail’

re you looking for something in our Travel Books department? If so, you might be interested in these items. Travel Books Bill Walker is the author of Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail. Other books by Bill Walker include Skywalker–Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail, The Best Way–El Camino de Santiago, and...

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Pacific Crest Trail Having Record Year–Cheryl Strayed Effect?

The following article: http://www.mercurynews.com/travel/ci_23387926/pacific-crest-trail-finds-itself-wildly-popular-this   is very good news. The number of hikers who filed for PCT (Pacific Crest Trail) thru-hiking permits has almost doubled to 1,004. Some worry. Donna Sauffley, who runs the most renowned hiker hostel on the PCT, worries about the impact on the environment, as well as the crush of hikers that will arrive at the same time at...

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Massive Reader Interest This Weekend in Skywalker Adventure Narratives

This weekend total of 1,145 Amazon Kindle readers took advantage of a special promotion and uploaded Bill Walker’s two most popular adventure narratives: Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail and Skywalker–Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail. These two books have sold consistently well because they are aimed at the non-expert hiker and even the non-hiker. Walker, who is nearly 7-feet tall, had never even...

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