Hiking

Hiking is a long, vigorous walk for pleasure along a trail in nature.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail
Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail
Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
Hiking Through: Finding Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trail
Into the Wild
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Heartwood
Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
On Trails: An Exploration
The Unlikely Thru-Hiker: An Appalachian Trail Journey
A Walk in the Woods by Bill  BrysonInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerGrandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben MontgomeryWild by Cheryl StrayedInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Hiking Books
144 books — 40 voters
The Earth Beneath My Feet by Andrew  TerrillMystery In Rocky Mountain National Park by Aaron     JohnsonThat Wild Country by Mark KenyonThe River of Doubt by Candice MillardLoose on the Landscape by Joel Everett Harding
Wilderness Tales
29 books — 5 voters

Exploring Grand Teton National Park by Jeffrey J. DoranHiking Washington's Fire Lookouts by Amber CasaliHiking Great Smoky Mountains by Rodney AlbrightWashington Scrambles by Peggy Goldman100 Hikes in Northwest Oregon & Southwest Washington by William L. Sullivan
Great Hiking Guidebooks
39 books — 6 voters
Shades of Gray, Splashes of Color by Bill   CookeOrdinary Magic by Todd FahnestockThe Achievable Epic by Jim RahtzExploring the Rockies by Kevin SweetPurpose on the Colorado Trail by David Ashley
Hiking the Colorado Trail
11 books — 2 voters


Jennifer Pharr Davis
“ In Massachusetts and Vermont, there had been plenty of mosquitoes, but in New Hampshire, they had reinforcements. ”
― Jennifer Pharr Davis, Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail

Cheryl Strayed
“ How fabulous down was for those first minutes! Down, down, down I'd go until down too became impossible and punishing and so relentless that I'd pray for the trail to go back up. Going down, I realized was like taking hold of the loose strand of yarn on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling it until the entire sweater unraveled into a pile of string. Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was ...more ”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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