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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail | Cheryl Strayed

My favourites of the year! I gave just three 5 star reviews out of about 30 books ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ These were books that I couldn‘t put down and I didn‘t want to end 🥰

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Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail | Andrea Lankford

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Definitely a page turner. Lack of resolution at the end was frustrating but she gives enough info that you can make up your own mind about what happened to each hiker. Not exactly a work of literary genius but sometimes you need a plane read that will keep you interested.

OutsmartYourShelf

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail | Andrea Lankford

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The Pacific Crest Trail is one of the toughest hikes in the US. Running between the Canadian/US border at one end & the US/Mexico border at the other, it totals 2653 miles. Its terrain encompasses whole gamut between deserts & snow-logged trails, minimal signage, & the local wildlife includes rattlesnakes & bears. Still, many people try to thru-hike (travel from one end to the other) [continued]

OutsmartYourShelf or flip-flop (shuttle between stages depending upon the weather), & this book is about 3 of them.

During one year, 3 thru-hikers, Chris Sylvia, Kris Fowler, and David O'Sullivan set off along the trails. Hiking at different times of the years & at different stages, what they have in common is that they haven't been seen or heard of since. The author of this book details the search to find out what happened to these 3 young men. 1mo

OutsmartYourShelf I thought it was a really interesting read: a mix of the searches carried out, the truly lamentable state of official help for the missing (in one instance it has to be the missing person who applies to see the investigation files - now how is that supposed to work exactly?), & poignancy when thinking about the fact that, at present, we still don't know what happened to these men. 1mo

OutsmartYourShelf Some reviewers don't like the fact that it's not a linear layout & the timeline skips around a bit, but that didn't affect my reading of it. I think it's really odd that 3 people who disappeared in one year have never been found yet other missing people have. One or those odd coincidences or more? 4🌟

Full Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5966754100
Read 17th-24th Nov 2024

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Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 1mo

Bookwormjillk I read this over the summer and thought that was odd too. But maybe it‘s because more people are hiking? 1mo

CoffeeK8 I really liked the non-linear structure and agree it is weird none of them were found 1mo

DieAReader 🥳Awesome!! 1mo

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lil1inblue

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail | Cheryl Strayed

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This was a surprisingly interesting read. I did really enjoy the journey. But I can tell I'm getting older, because I was worried about her the entire book. 😅

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Bookwormjillk

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail | Andrea Lankford

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This book about volunteer missing persons searchers and investigators on the PCT was fascinating. It was sobering, but so descriptive it made me want to head out west and hike.

PageShifter Sounds intriguing! 4mo

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Bookwormjillk

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail | Andrea Lankford

Last day of #ForTheLoveofBooks Readathon. I read something this morning about how avocado toast is not a great for you breakfast so of course that‘s the only thing I could think about eating.

I thought I would finish this book yesterday but I still have 100 pages left. My plan is to finish before we leave for a hike in a couple of hours 🤞

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TheSpineView Love Avocado toast. Enjoy your hike! 4mo

Lesliereadsalot Don‘t believe everything you read! Had avocado toast with feta cheese for breakfast once and it was delish. 4mo

AnnCrystal 😋🥑💝. 4mo

Bookwormjillk @Lesliereadsalot yeah I didn‘t really believe it. It just made me hungry 🤣 4mo

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Bookwormjillk

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail | Andrea Lankford

Day 3 of the #ForTheLoveOfBooks Readathon. I brought out my fall mugs and I‘m celebrating with cake for breakfast. Hopefully I‘ll finish this book today.

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AllDebooks 💚Stacked💚 4mo

Bookwormjillk @AllDebooks the book or the cake? Cause I did go a little wild with the whipped cream 😄 4mo

TheSpineView Cake! Yum! 🩵📖🍰 4mo

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OutsmartYourShelf I really want to read this book. It's on my Christmas list. 4mo

AllDebooks @Bookwormjillk both, obvs 😅🎂💚 4mo

SamAnne I like your style! 4mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail | Cheryl Strayed

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What a ride. Emotional more than entertaining, not that a memoir sets out to entertain, but there are a number of moments that make it clear why someone saw how this could become a film - that I don't think I'll ever watch. The massive amount of hype surrounding this book means perhaps that it was doomed not to live up to overblown expectations. As I more often find with graphic novel style memoirs, I think this works best 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? as an exercise for the author, a necessary step in their journey, to have done the walk, to reflect back on the walk, and their earlier life.
Hard to quantify, but I'd guess this is an even split between flashing back to the moments that led her to the trail, and on trail experiences.
The truth is that while Strayed's unwise choices are different from my unwise choices, I really didn't enjoy listening to a person being lost in their 20s 4mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/4 Maybe that's just the default state of being in that decade but it was kind of agonizing to find myself even at a remove, back in that kind of head space. I have to wonder how many truly wild moments are the result of poor planning on the part of an understably young, inexperienced, out of sorts person.
I definitely could have done without the extended horse euthanasia by gun scene. 4mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/4 ⚠️death of a parent, drug use, injury, animal death, domestic abuse, misogyny 4mo

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Adventures_of_a_French_Reader

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail | Andrea Lankford

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Very interesting read about searching for missing people on the Pacific Crest Trail. Somewhat informative about the process, law enforcement, and what it entails in terms of man power, cost, and emotional up and downs.
This book puts forward the hard work by volunteers.
Can be repetitive at times, and hard to follow the different cases.

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