Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail Audiobook (Free)

Day One particular, and currently she was lying in her journal. It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished university, and when her friend recommended they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded just like the ideal distraction from a difficult home existence and thoughts about the near future. But she by no means imagined how the twenty-eight-day hike would modify her life. Part memoir, part character writing, component travelogue, Almost Somewhere is Roberts’s account of this hike.

John Muir wrote from the about Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Path Sierra Nevada like a ‘vast selection of light,’ and this was exactly what Roberts wanted. But traveling with two girlfriends, one experienced and unflappable as well as the various other inexperienced and bulimic, she quickly found that she required a new frame of guide. Her tale of per month in the backcountry-confronting bears, snowy passes, broken equipment, injuries, and strange men-is as very much about getting a woman’s method into outdoor knowledge as it is about the natural world she so eloquently explains. Candid and funny and, finally, sensible, Almost Somewhere is not just the whimsical coming-of-age tale of a young woman ill-prepared for a month in the mountains but also the reflection of a distinctly feminine watch of nature.