Re: [at-l] present recommendations

Hi Val,

My favorite AT book is Blind Courage by Bill Irwin, I also enjoyed Jan
Curran books The Appalachian Trail: A Journey of Discovery and Onward to
Katahdin.  If your looking for a book with lots of pictures check out
Sojourn in the Wilderness by Kenneth Wadness.

Enjoy
ATwanabe

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> From: Valerie Henderson <vhender@austin.ibm.com>
> To: at-l@edina.hack.net
> Subject: [at-l] present recommendations
> Date: Thursday, November 30, 2000 11:15 AM
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been on this list in various forms for several years mostly lurking 
> and enjoying the nonsense that goes on.  Figured I'd pop out of hiding 
> and reintroduce myself.  I'm Val.  There.  Now I'm introduced.  I'm 
> presently marooned in Texas, so I consider this list my hiking "fix" 
> until I can get back to dear ole' NC.
> 
> But on to the real reason I was writing this.  My father has always loved

> the outdoors and hiking.  Dad was the one that used to pile the family 
> into the car and make trips to places like GSMNP or the western NC 
> mountains.  He always had an unstated ambition to hike the AT, but he 
> always put it off.  Now, he's got a myriad of health related problems 
> (diabetes, high blood pressure, heart problems...) and probably never 
> will get a chance to do more than extended weekend trips.  This year for 
> Christmas he put in a request for "trail books".  I think he's looking 
> for narrative type books so he can live vicariously through the 
> adventures of others.
> 
> I figured I'd ask for help from the list before I moseyed on over to 
> Amazon.com and started ordering.  Just please, please, please don't 
> suggest Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods.  So, other than that one, what

> are y'all's favorite AT books?
> 
> Later,
> -val
> 
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