The Trail Provides: A Boy's Memoir of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

If your life led to a dead-end, in which direction would you walk?

Disillusioned by the run-in-place corporate lifestyle, David finds himself unemployed and desperate to move the world under his feet.

Bradley, his older, more adventurous, and slightly reckless college fraternity brother, makes an enticing proposal: thru-hike the Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,650-mile Mexico-to-Canada footpath-barefoot.

Just a few weeks later, the two inexperienced hopefuls abandon society to soul-search in nature's...