Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

The Pacific Crest Trail, 2,660 miles, told as the daily blog she actually kept — which is why it reads nothing like a reflective memoir. It’s feet, water carries, hunger, weather, town stops, and the trail family that forms and breaks apart. She’s honest about the parts hikers don’t write down: The obsessive food math, the crying, the way you start to need the trail more than you like it. Self-published and word-of-mouth famous, and it’s the book most PCT hikers hand each other.