http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a525038/wild-reese-witherspoon-shares-first-photo-as-cheryl-strayed.html Reese Witherspoon has released the first photo (see link above) of her playing Cheryl Strayed in the upcoming Hollywood movie, ‘Wild’. The long-distance hiking community eagerly awaits this film. Already Cheryl Strayed’s book has had a tangible effect as the number of hikers who applied for thru-hiking permits on the...

 Bill Walker, author of the Skywalker hiking series, is offering a free Amazon Kindle upload today only of his two popular outdoor adventure narratives, Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail, and Skywalker–Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail. Walker is also the author of ‘The Best Way–El Camino de Santiago’ and ‘Getting High–The Annapurna Circuit in Nepal’. Walker, who is...

Are 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. He 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...

https://bay168.mail.live.com/default.aspx?id=64855#n=1702084155&fid=1&mid=2dc995e1-30b7-11e3-8511-00237de461f4&fv=1 The Amazon Travel Department recommends, ‘Getting High–The Annapurna Circuit in Nepal’, by Bill Walker. He is the author of previous outdoor narratives including, ‘Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail’, ‘Skywalker–Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest...

The following link is the trail journal for Alexandra ‘Rocket Llama’ Wilson, the last of the four missing thru-hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). The other three were rescued by helicopter. http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?trailname=14842   This journal is most notable for one thing–its utter authenticity. Her ruminations on death are not hysterical, but rather of the look–straight-in-the-eye variety. At...