Skywalker on the Pacific Crest Trail 高個兒徒步美國西岸

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Skywalker: Highs and Lows on the Pacific Crest Trail
賣了十一年股票和期貨的高個兒徒步美國西岸的太平洋屋脊步道（4,286公里）
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HZXYX4/

Public domain image of the Pacific Crest Trail, going north from California --> Oregon --> Washington

Another book review on this blog describes how the author hiked the Appalachian Trail:
Skywalker--Close Encounters on the Appalachian trail (3,500 kilometers)
Skywalker 高個兒徒步美國東岸的阿帕拉契小徑（3,500公里）
http://cute-kindle.blogspot.tw/2014/12/travel-skywalker-3500.html

Wikipedia has more information about the PCT:
(In English) Pacific Crest Trail
(In Chinese) 太平洋屋脊步道

Blurb:

The Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail (PCT)is the perfect place for an average person to do something extraordinary. Bill Walker ("Skywalker"), who stands 6'11", might seem like anything but average. Yet in a brutally honest tone, he lays to bare all his considerable weaknesses and fears. Among these are crushing weight loss and fatigue, along with a fear of getting lost or a bear stealing his food. Nonetheless, he is bound and determined to hike the PCT, which at 2,663 miles, runs all the way from Mexico to Canada.

The PCT's calling card is its stunning beauty. It has a diversity of geography unequaled by any footpath in the world. Haunting and beckoning the PCT hiker are the implacable desert, the towering majesty of the so-called High Sierra, and the ruggedly bleak, northern Cascade range. Indeed, the PCT hiker faces much greater extremes of terrain and climate than on the famed Appalachian Trail. Completing this demanding challenge calls for overwhelming clarity of purpose.

Walker's signature characteristic as a writer is his real talent in capturing people ("Skywalker's humor, his delight in human foibles appeal to a broad audience."--Jeff Minnick, Smoky Mountain Book News). Obviously, he is a people person because he runs into and vividly describes a truly colorful cast of characters from seemingly all walks of American life. Among these are Uber Bitch, Shit Bag, and Serial Killer; the reader learns how these hikers ended up with their names (hint: blunders).

The reader need not worry that Walker is a bully. Throughout this irreverent narrative, he turns his considerable supply of humor back on himself in ruthlessly self-deprecating fashion. It all makes for a delightful read.

About the Author

Bill Walker was a commodities broker at the Chicago Board of Trade and London International Financial Exchange for fourteen years. Walker then sharply reversed course and spent three years in four Latin American countries as a Teacher of English as a Second Language. Walker hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2005 and the Pacific Crest Trail in 2009. In 2010 and 2011, he hiked the most popular trail in Europe--El Camino de Santiago. This is an 1,100 year old medieval trail that is variously considered a spiritual pilgrimage, or "the European Divorcee Trail." He recently completed a narrative on that journey, 'The Best Way--El Camino de Santiago'.