Trail Reflections, 50 Years of Hiking and Backpacking. This item is unavailable.Trail Reflections, 50 Years of Hiking and Backpacking

This volume takes you on a hiking and backpacking journey around the world in search of remote scenic splendor, from the 9,000 foot granite cones of Torres del Paine National Park and the roof of the world in the Langtang Range of northern Nepal to hikes in the shadow of Mont Blanc and on the Milford Track on the South Island of New Zealand. Closer to home, Jim Kern’s camera exposes the beauty of the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana and “The Whites” of New Hampshire to the wildflowers of the North Cascades along the Pacific Crest Trail and the wet foot-trail of the Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida. There are well illustrated treks, too, on remote trails in Pariah Canyon, Utah; to Shimshal, Northern Pakistan; and from Ranau to Keningau, Sabah, Borneo, when it was only a footpath. There are additional and unusual hikes that include backpacking by moonlight in the Guana Estuarine Reserve, a chapter on going alone, and photographs of hiking with llamas. While on this arm chair adventure, read the stories of how Kern carved out time to found the Florida Trail, the American Hiking Society and Big City Mountaineers.