Amazon Travel Books 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 Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian trail Bill Walker, Jerry Gramckow, Audra George Price: $4.95 Skywalker: Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail Bill Walker Price: $4.95 Stumbling Thru: Hike Your...
read moreAmazon 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...
read moreSummertime 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 lightning, are part of the drill on the AT. But there is some good news. First, the number of...
read moreAmazon 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 Getting High–The Annapurna Circuit in...
read morePacific 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 her trail-famous hostel. Points well made. However, I look at it from a different perspective. We...
read moreMassive 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 spent the night outdoors before embarking on a quixotic thru-hike attempt of the Appalachian Trail....
read moreFirst Aid on Long-Distance Hikes
Emma Roberts of Nanny Magazine recently sent me the article below on the subject of first-aid in long-distance hiking. It is a well-written, commonsense article that first-time hikers would do well to consider. http://www.summernanny.com/blog/10-first-aid-facts-to-know-before-taking-your-first-summer-hike/ I have a few things I would like to add. The cold, wet springtime weather is legendary amongst Appalachian Trail thru-hikers. In fact, it is existential to the challenge. Odds are you are going to suffer through some long, cold and wet...
read moreAppalachian Trail Thru-Hiking Class of 2013 Facing Wettest Year Since 2003
“Twenty-four straight days of rain,” they lament proudly. I’ve heard the Class of 2003 many times get together to reminisce ad-infinitum about their thru-hikes. There is nothing unusual about that. Heck, that was the specific reason the annual Trail Days Festival was started in the first place–for hikers from prior years to reunite with their old trail comrades. It has been a smashing success; long-distance hikers are the greatest raconteurs I ever saw. But the peculiar thing the Class of 2003 always brings up first is...
read moreSkywalker Runs Free Amazon Kindle Special on Appalachian Trail and Pacific Crest Trail Books
Bill Walker (‘Skywalker’) will hold a special promotion starting in just a couple hours for this entire weekend on his two most popular outdoor adventure narratives, Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail and Skywalker–Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail. They will be available for free upload on Amazon Kindle, Saturday and Sunday, June 8 and 9. These books are cutting-edge tales of his thru-hikes of the 2,181 mile Appalachian Trail(AT) and 2,663 mile Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). Walker lost 33 pounds...
read moreAmazon 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 Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian trail Bill Walker, Jerry Gramckow, Audra George Price: $4.95 Stumbling Thru: Hike Your Own Hike A. Digger Stolz Price: $3.99 Skywalker: Highs and Lows on the...
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