It’s hiking season, folks. What does that mean? Perhaps the motto of the Florida Appalachian Trail Club sums it up best. GOYASH (Get Off Your Ass, Start Hiking). Pretty good, huh. And I promise you one thing–you will never regret it. Especially this winter when you are frozen or iced in your house, if not your car. These are the good ol” days. Bill Walker is the author of the Skywalker hiking books, including...

“Be entrepreneurial,” I advise people heading overseas to walk the renowned Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. Indeed, I have crossed the Atlantic three times myself to trek the 500 miles from St. Jean’s Pied de Port in southern France to Santiago de Compostela in the northwestern Spanish province of Galicia, and this is the conclusion I have drawn. Be entrepreneurial. What do I mean? Well, an entrepreneur, by his or her very...

Bill Walker, author of the Skywalker series of hiking books, is offering a free upload on Amazon Kindle, or other handheld devices, of The Best Way–El Camino de Santiago, today and tomorrow, June 22-23. This is the story of his 2010 and 2011 treks on the popular European pilgrimage, El Camino de Santiago which runs from southern France to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spanish province of Galicia. Walker describes the Camino as...

“It’s going to be single-file walking up the trail after Bryson’s movie comes out.” I have recently begun to hear thoughts and sentiments to this effect, now that the long-awaited film version of Bill Bryson’s bestselling Appalachian Trail (AT) book, A Walk in the Woods is really being filmed. To be sure, this is a valid concern. After all, when Bryson’s book was released in 1998, the so-called ‘Bryson...

Filmmakers Catherine O’ Shorr and Patrick Nagle, along with technical artist, Melissa Metisko, have shot a ten minute movie of Bill Walker, who is renowned for being possibly the tallest person to ever thru-hike the 2,180 mile Appalachian Trail film, as well as author of the popular Appalachian Trail book, Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail. Obviously the film is not a match for Robert Redford’s upcoming film...