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Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart

An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

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Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart

By: Carrot Quinn
Narrated by: Erin Spencer
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Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the Internet. The city makes her numb, and she's having trouble connecting with others. In a desperate move, she breaks away from everything to walk 2,660 miles from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. It will be her first long-distance hike.

In the desert of Southern California, Carrot faces many challenges, both physical and emotional: pain, injury, blisters, aching cold and searing heat, dehydration, exhaustion, loneliness. In the wilderness she happens upon and becomes close with an eclectic group of strangers - people she wouldn't have chanced to meet in the "regular world" but who are brought together, here on the trail, by their one common goal: to make it to Canada before the snow flies.

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A gripping story about emotions and circumstances during a hike like the pct. Inspiring and great to listen to.

A gripping story

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It’s a reasonable trail story. Not great.

But, oh boy, for a person who claims to need gf food, she eats an awful lot of gluten. And then complains about stomach issues…

Yawn.

Top tip: if you’re gluten intolerant, don’t eat gluten.

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I prefer ones where you learn about the other hikers and their stories and maybe a bit more about the trail itself. She mentions a few other hikers but hardly anything about them apart from their trail names. She focuses more on what she and everyone else ate on the way. She also seems to skip quite quickly from one part of the story to the next without telling you what happened in between making it harder to follow.

With other hiking audio books I’ve listened to (apart from ‘wild’ which is similar to this one and ‘a walk in the woods’ both of which I didn’t rate very highly) I’ve wanted to keep listening to them and get to the end because I was enjoying them and wanted to find out what happened next, with this one I just wanted to get to the end so I didn’t have to listen to it anymore. I always try and listen to all of them to the end in case it gets better and to be fair the last hour of this one was probably the best bit (I will admit to skipping some of the more cringeworthy parts of the book though).

Not the best hiking related book I’ve listened to.

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A great read for anyone who has thru hiked or for those thinking about going on an adventure and want a taste of the trail.

A great read for anyone who has thru hiked

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Really enjoyed this book. A snapshot of life on the trail for a thrill hiker

Enjoyable

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