Tag: memoir

  • The Colorado Trail in Crisis

    The Colorado Trail in Crisis

    In The Colorado Trail in Crisis, retired naturalist and veteran thru-hiker Karl Ford brings both boots-on-the-ground experience and a scientist’s urgency to bear on one of the great environmental challenges of our time: climate change. Drawing from his re-hikes of the Colorado Trail in 2020 and 2021, Ford offers readers a thoughtful hybrid of trail

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  • Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail

    Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail

    Joan Griffin’s Force of Nature is a beautifully written trail memoir woven with rich storytelling and vivid descriptions. Griffin’s journey on the John Muir Trail (JMT) in 2006 might have taken seventeen years to translate into this book, but the result is an exquisitely crafted narrative that stands out as one of the best in

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