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

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"Cascade Summer" is the story of (Eugene) Register-Guard columnist Bob Welch' 2011 attempt, along with his brother-in-law, to hike the length of Oregon's mountainous spine on the 452-mile Pacific Crest Trail. And to better understand 19th-century Cascade Range advocate John Waldo, the state's answer to California naturalist John Muir. Laughs. Blisters. And new friends from literally around the world - the trip had it all. But Welch never foresaw the...

Travel along the Pacific Crest Trail, from Mexico to Canada, through seven national parks and 24 national forests. You'll travel through California, Oregon and Washington, seeing what two to three hundred hikers who attempt the PCT each year see on their journey.

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.