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2000s: Who fancies packing up your life and taking off on The Pacific Crest Trail?
The Unlikeliest Backpacker
What you need to know before your trail
Life has become routine. You sense there is more out there to experience and explore with an urge gnawing away inside to do something different. But what? Before you know it, plans have snowballed – you’ve quit your city job and flown to America to begin life living in the wilderness, walking hundreds of miles with no income. ‘The Unlikeliest Backpacker’ chronicles a British couple’s absurd journey as aspiring long-distance hikers.
With Canada hundreds of miles away, they must learn to backpack and survive on the famous Pacific Crest Trail. How hard can it be?
Locations
Reset- America/USA - Washington State
- E: Mount Adams
- F: Packwood
- G: Stehekin Valley
- Canada - BC
- H: Manning Park
Travel Guide
Travel the Pacific North Trail with The Most Unlikeliest Backpacker
This is a book you can really walk the locations yourself – but it’s one of the longest walks in a novel we’ve come across in a while. It’s on the advanced level shall we say?
A few places of note: Oregon
Callahan’s Lodge and Restaurant
Then on the way to Washington State, they cross over the rather ominously named Bridge of Gods:
They walk east of Packwood, Knifes Edge, Mount Ranier, Stehekin Valley and across the Manning Peak in Canada.
The Pacific Crest Trail is 2,653 mi (4,270 km) long. The route passes through 25 national forests and 7 national parks. It’s one of the most stunning walks in the world and Kathryn’s experiences of it is quite something!
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Unlikeliest Backpacker
Destination: Pacific Crest Trail, Oregon, Washington State Author/guide: Kathryn Barnes Departure Time: 2000s
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