Bill Walker, author of the Skywalker hiking series on the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and El Camino de Santiago, is having a free two day offering of his most recent hiking book, Getting High–The Annapurna Circuit in Nepal. The promotion begins Friday, April 18th and ends Saturday, April...

The annual ATKO (Appalachian Trail Kickoff) at Amicalola Falls in north Georgia saw record turnouts this year. The crowd was evenly divided between ex-thru-hikers, current year thru-hikers, and wannabe hopefuls for the future. The event was a another display of how the Appalachian Trail is America’s great trail of the masses, with a stunning diversity in its hiker community. One of the featured speakers was a fifteen year old girl...

Bill Walker, author of the ‘Skywalker’ hiking series, will be offering a free Amazon Kindle upload of his two popular adventure narratives, Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail and Skywalker–Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail, this Friday and Saturday, March 7th and 8th. They will also be available for free upload on various electronic devices, IPODs, etc. Walker is also the author of outdoor...

President Obama has purchased the Pacific Crest Trail memoir, Wild, by Cheryl Strayed. Unsurprisingly, Miss Strayed was wowed by the news. I think President Obama has really searched his soul in the way that writers do, Miss Strayed wrote. He has really had a lot of people who loved him well, who had a lot of teachers. But he is really a self-made man. So much of Wild is about how we must ultimately make ourselves. Bill Walker is the author of...

President Obama has purchased the bestselling hiking adventure book, Wild–From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed. This is the story of a lone woman (Cheryl Strayed) recovering from the death of her mother, divorce, and drug abuse, setting off alone on the 2,663 mile Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. “He had an unusual background around lots of supporting, loving people,” Miss Strayed...

Getting High–The Annapurna Circuit in Nepal  will be available for free upload on Amazon Kindle, Sunday and Monday, December 8th and 9th. The Annapurna Circuit is the most popular hiking trail in Asia and reaches 17,768 feet. Walker is also the author of other adventure narratives including Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail, Skywalker–Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail, and The Best Way–El Camino...