A New Path: Finding My Passion in America's Wilderness

by Greg Smith, Susan Clark (Editor)

Life is an incredible adventure. I believe we are given about 80 years to live life to the fullest, in a world that offers us most anything our hearts desire. As I approached retirement, I was looking for that fulfillment. I have compared life to a basketball game: first quarter we grow up; second quarter we seek our passions; third quarter we pay our dues, so that in the fourth quarter we can return to our passions. My passion was to experience the natural beauty that our earth makes available to us. This story allows you to share my journey during that first year of my fourth quarter backpacking into the remote wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. Enjoy the adventure through the eyes of a normal guy who is following his passion. The story helps you relate to the locations of various backpacking trips and allows you to share what can go wrong when the wilderness unleashes its fury.

This book will give you a glimpse of some amazingly beautiful places such as:
Three Sisters Wilderness
Eagle Cap Wilderness
Goat Rocks Wilderness
Spider Gap Glacier Peak Wilderness
Alpine Lakes Wilderness
West Coast Trail - Vancouver Island, BC
Mt Jefferson Wilderness
Mt Hood Wilderness
Tillamook State Forest
Lost Coast Trail, Northern California

About the author: Greg has always considered life to be a great adventure which in recent years he has captured with his blog: Greg started out as a chemist and ended with 20 years as a CIO in higher education. But even through his professional career the adventure continued with 26 moves. It is the beauty and solitude of the wilderness that now controls him. Ending up living in McMinnville, Oregon now provides endless opportunity to explore of the Pacific Northwest.

Kindle Edition

Published May 24, 2018

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