Leslie Mass
Auteur van In Beauty May She Walk; Hiking the Appalachian Trail at 60
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It's on my bucket list. I have no illusions that I would/could attempt the whole thing ... but I would like to try a week or two out witting bears and sleeping under the stars.
I was a girl scout and I think you can take the girl out of the woods but you can't take the woods out of the girl.
I loved Wild and actually read it twice. This accounting of the long arduous walk/hike over 2000 miles on the AT focused more on the relationships developed on the walk and less on the demons that were carried along. Tucked into the back pack. The sort of demons along for the ride at 60 years of age are the personality traits and quirks that have evolved over a lifetime.
Anyway I Liked It very much. It is so far the best AT book I have read.
Wish her photographs were included. Felt a visceral dislike for character named Jed. Wounder if he and Leslie's Mass' daughter had a relationship after the first half of the book. It was never mentioned again.
Traveling to Savanna some years ago we encountered some thru hikers walking as long side the roaf. In Pennsylvania we came even closer. Almost Close Enough To Smell Them. Dusty looking with walking sticks bandanas and back packs I felt that I would love to join them. They Were Skinny blonde young and athletic looking. Hike hardened.… (meer)