Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

I hope one day I can be brave and enjoy the pleasure of doing something really really challenging, but also extremely rewarding. I want to find myself in nature- possibly on the PCT- too someday (which I fear may never actually happen- because “someday” is ambiguous as hell). Cheryl went in head first… entirely unprepared. She faced many difficult and life-threatening situations, but all along the way I felt like I was walking beside her and that I could do it as well. I like that she wasn’t frightened, even when she actually was, it gives me some sort of peace, knowing that the world doesn’t just scare me… but she still did it. I have so much that I want to accept and I want to figure out who I really am and what I am capable of. We all carry a lot within our being (grief, anger, etc) and this story showed me acceptance/personal growth is possible. I really liked it. I hope I can be brave too.

This is my second time reading this book. Although intriguing and inspiring, the repetitiveness of parts of the book caused me to wish I were done reading.

I feel like this is the part where I have to defend why I liked this so much. But no. It was a very enjoyable book. It was bad ass. It was feminist. I might even read it again one day. I liked the journey itself, I liked her writing, I liked the people she met, I liked all of it.

An amazing true life story of a woman’s journey to find herself and her strength on hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

A very well written, incredibly inspiring and honest story. I cried at the end when Cheryl reached the bridge. This book made me seriously think about hiking the AT or the PCT someday.