Trial By Trail: Backpacking in the Smoky Mountains

Nine million visitors come to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park each year, but few, unfortunately, have time to enjoy fully the challenges and pleasures, the opportunities for reflection and inner growth, that the park's wild and beautiful backcountry offers. Trial by Trail chronicles the odyssey of one man who, over time, discovered the deeper riches to be found within the park's boundaries.

In fourteen lively personal essays, Johnny Molloy describes the adventures by which he came o...