Skywalker Pacific Crest Trail Audiotape Available on Audible.com
The audiotape for Skywalker–Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail is available on www.audible.com Audible members can upload it for free. The recording is done by the author himself, Bill Walker (Skywalker) The book is also available Monday and Tuesday, March 30 and 31, for free upload on Amazon Kindle. Bill Walker is the author of several popular hiking books including Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail, The Best Way–El Camino de Santiago, and Getting High–The Annapurna Circuit in Nepal.
read moreSkywalker Appalachian Trail Book Kindle #1 Rating
Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail, an account of 7-foot tall Bill Walker’s (Skywalker) thru-hike of the 2,181 mile Appalachian Trail, now has a Kindle #1 rating in non-fiction, sports, outdoors, nature, and hiking.
read moreBackpacker Magazine Article Lists Eleven Key Tips for Female Hikers
http://www.backpacker.com/skills/11-key-tips-for-female-thru-hikers/#bp=0/img1 The above is a link to a Backpacker Magazine article listing eleven key tips for female hikers. Well I’m not a female hiker. But I do meet and counsel many aspiring female hikers. And these tips sound spot on. Perhaps my favorite would be the advice to “Be pragmatic, but not wary.” Yes, obviously women have to be a bit more pragmatic on the trail. It is great that they can hitchhike to town for resupply so easily; but it always must be remembered...
read moreSkywalker Hiking Books–Free Amazon Kindle For KDP Select Members
Bill Walker, author of the Skywalker hiking books, offers his books for free upload on Amazon Kindle for KDP Select members. These books include Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail, Skywalker–Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail, The Best Way–El Camino de Santiago, and Getting High–The Annapurna Circuit in Nepal.
read moreFree Amazon Kindle Upload of ‘The Best Way–El Camino de Santiago’ This Weekend
Bill Walker, author of the Skywalker hiking books on the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and Camino de Santiago, is offering a free upload on Amazon Kindle of his popular travel narrative, The Best Way–El Camino de Santiago on Friday and Saturday, February 6th and 7th.
read moreMovie ‘Wild’ Helping Sales of Pacific Crest Trail Books
Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon, and written by Cheryl Strayed, has sharply ratcheted up interest in the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, running from Mexico to Canada. While some may view this with alarm, I feel just the opposite. The population of hikers would have to practically dectuple before it reached the Appalachian Trail level of density. And I vividly remember long stretches of complete, eerie solitude. It’s all to the good. The more the better. Bill Walker is the author of Skywalker–Highs and Lows on the Pacific...
read morePacific Crest Trail Offers Extremes in Both Weather and Terrain
“The Appalachian Trail is more difficult step-for-step, but the Pacific Crest Trail offers greater extremes.” That is the conventional wisdom. And unlike conventional wisdom on Wall Street, hiking community conventional wisdom is often correct. Indeed the PCT traverses 703 miles of desert before even entering the ‘High Sierra’. While not actually on the PCT most thru-hikers do attempt to go up Mount. Whitney, the highest point in the Lower 48 at 14,480 feet. Thru-hikers camp out above 10,000 feet for several nights in...
read moreBig Morongo Canyon Preserve: a haven for hikers
Big Morongo Canyon Preserve: a haven for hikers Situated in the Little San Bernardino Mountains is a treasure called Big Morongo Canyon. The canyon is high in natural diversity due to it being in the middle of Mojave and Colorado Deserts. Big Morongo Canyon’s desert oasis, which is recognized as one of the most important avian habitats in California by the Audubon Society, is home to Cottonwood and Willow Riparian. The Big Morongo Canyon has numerous trails for hikers to enjoy. The Preserve is open every day from 7:30 in the morning until...
read morePacific Crest Trail Is More Dangerous, Exhilirating Than Appalachian Trail
October is that time of the year. The search and rescue teams in the northern Cascades are busy. Much busier than any such teams in Maine. In both places, thru-hikers are finishing their long journeys. While Maine is as gorgeous of a place as one can find on this earth, it is no match, in one respect, for Washington State in the northern Cascades. Peril. Put simply, the northern Cascades receive more snow than anywhere else in the Lower 48. “Be finished by October 1st, PCT (Pacific Crest Trail) thru-hikers are advised at the annual PCT...
read moreWhich Hiking Movie Will Be Popular–Bryson’s Appalachian Trail Movie or Strayed’s Pacific Crest Trail One
https://www.facebook.com/ATHike/photos/a.142376382395.123009.16218202395/10152395520887396/?type=1&theater I am happy to report to those of you of ‘outdoor ilk’ that the rumors you have heard are not, in fact, rumors. Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling memoir, Wild–From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail’ is in fact now a movie starring Reese Witherspoon. It will be widely available to the public during the upcoming holiday season. Better yet, the film you have been hearing about for ten years that never was...
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