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1) Trail of the lost: the relentless search to bring home the missing hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
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2023.
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"From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author's quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies"--
"As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of the most beautiful (and dangerous) landscapes across America, from...
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In the wake of her mother's death, Cheryl Strayed's family scattered and her marriage was destroyed. Four years later, twenty-six years old with nothing to lose, Cheryl made the decision to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert to Washington State - alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker and the trail was little more than an idea. But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone.
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Washington is a dynamic state, to say the least. It's amazing how quickly the landscape can change: Fires rage in the summer, closing trails and burning huge swaths of forest; bridges get washed away in massive floods; and avalanches knock trees over like matchsticks, taking out entire sections of trail with them. The second edition of Day & Section Hikes Pacific Crest Trail: Washington, by local author Adrienne Schaefer, provides hikers with updated...
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2023.
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"When Alexei Lebedev finally comes out to his conservative community, it does not go well. That's how he ended up on the rugged Pacific Crest Trail, hoping he can figure out a new life plan in the thousands of miles it'll take to walk the famed hike. He's prepared for rattlesnakes, blisters, and months of solitude. What he's not prepared for is the ray of sunshine named Ben Caravalho. Charismatic and outgoing, Ben's personality and infectious laughter...
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[2014]
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320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
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For many people, the Pacific Crest Trail is the ultimate long-distance hiking trail. Beginning in the dry valleys of southern California, it follows the crest of the snow-capped Sierras and ends in the ancient forests of Washington's Cascades. Along the way, national treasures such as Yosemite, Crater Lake, and Mount Rainier make this trail one of the premier hiking destinations in the world. But hiking is about much more than getting from A to B....
9) Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, Washington: section hiking from the Columbia River to Manning Park
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[2017]
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286 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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[2015]
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x, 372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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"Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada- a coming of age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a fellow student. Overprotected by her parents who discouraged her from telling of the attack, Aspen was confused and ashamed. Dealing with a problem that has sadly become all too common on college...
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[2019]
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206 pages : map ; 22 cm.
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By age 25, Heather Anderson had hiked what is known as the "Triple Crown" of backpacking: the Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and Continental Divide Trail (CDT)a combined distance of 7,900 miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. A few years later, she left her job, her marriage, and a dissatisfied life and walked back into those mountains. In her new memoir, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home, Heather, whose trail name...
14) The woodkin
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After secrets and betrayal shatter his marriage, Josh Mallory seeks solace on the Pacific Crest Trail in the mountains of Washington. This backpacking trip turns grisly when he comes across the body of another hiker who seems to have fallen to his death. Josh is forced to detour through a small mountain town with missing hiker posters and residents who show no interest in hearing about the dead hiker. Unease that something is not quite right chases...
15) Wild
Pub. Date
[2015]
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1 videodisc (115 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After years of reckless behavior, a heroin addiction and the destruction of her marriage, Cheryl Strayed makes a rash decision. Haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi and with absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail all on her own.
16) Wild
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[2012]
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1 sound media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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2021.
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195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Through the written word, graphic design, and illustration, The Pacific Crest Trail: A Visual Compendium conveys the beauty of a 2,650-mile wilderness hike from Mexico to Canada. The author chronicles the PCT through infographics about the trail and the thru-hikers' experience, and includes arresting illustrations of the landscape and minutae of the trail"--
20) Backpacking
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©2005
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1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Backpacking the Olympics: An 8-day trek across the Bailey Ridge in Washington's Olympic Mountains starts at Sol Duc Hot Springs. Crossing Low Divide, the party travels the route of the 1890 Press expedition. The trail ends near Lake Quinault.
Backpacking the Pacific Coast Trail: Hikers marvel at the grandeur seen along the segment of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Canadian border to Washington's Stevens Pass Highway, named by Indians "Land of the...
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