End to Ending: An Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker's Story

End to Ending is both a raw first-hand account and a time-traveling reflection-a vivid memoir written by a young man who walked the entire Appalachian Trail in the 1990s, and now reissued with the clarity and insight of three decades gone by.

At nineteen, Tanner Critz heard whispers of a footpath stretching from Georgia to Maine. At twenty-one, he shouldered a heavy pack, said goodbye to his father at the trailhead, and stepped into a world where hunger replaced comfort, and solitude peeled ...