Skywalker–Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail, a popular hiking book by Bill Walker, has been out for ten months in video form and has now reached its 10,000 viewer. This ten minute film done by Catherine O Shorr and edited by Melissa Matisko, touches on the highlights of Walker’s 2005 thru-hike of the 2,180 mile Appalachian Trail, which Walker calls “undoubtedly the best way to see...

Bill Walker, author of the Skywalker hiking series on the Appalachian Trail and Pacific Crest Trail, later fell in love with the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage which runs for 500 miles from southern France to northwestern Spain. He later wrote the adventure narrative, The Best Way–El Camino de Santiago. Walker and his 18 year old nephew engaged in towel-snapping banter all across through northern Spain as they traipsed through countless...