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...

https://bay168.mail.live.com/default.aspx?id=64855#n=1288127501&fid=1&mid=3c246750-6888-11e3-9fbe-00215ad7db90&fv=1 The Amazon Travel Department recommends the Skywalker hiking series, written by 7-foot tall Bill Walker. These two books are 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  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...

Bill Walker, author of the Skywalker hiking series, will be having a special free upload of Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail and Skywalker–Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail on Amazon Kindle and other electronic devices this Saturday, December...

“It’s all about acclimatization,” trekker after trekker advised me in the run-up to my trek on the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal. Indeed, they were correct. The Annapurna Circuit reaches 17,768 feet at Thorung La Pass. Except for the summit day, in which trekkers begin their ascent at 4 a.m. at 15,600 feet and climb almost 3,200 feet by early morning (to avoid the harsh late morning winds), the trek is not particularly difficult....

If you had asked me in the desert what my most important piece of equipment in my backpack was, I would have told you the dorky, wide-brimmed hat I wore to protect myself from the blazing sun and stave off dehydration. However, way up in the ‘High Sierra’ portion of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), I would have had a surprising answer–a piece of equipment that did not weigh even one ounce and cost less than $20. My mosquito head...