Page-turning Adventures

It's still pretty chilly outside, so if you're avoiding the cold, get your outdoor fix in another way: reading. Here are our top four picks for a good read this winter to inspire your next adventure.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

By Cheryl Strayed

The #1 New York Times bestseller Wild is the gripping memoir of 22-year-old Cheryl Strayed who lost herself in the wake of her mother's death and the end of her marriage soon after. Four years later, Strayed made a decision on impulse to hike 1100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State-a feat that she would tackle with no experience and completely alone.

The Appalachian Trail: Celebrating America's Hiking Trail

By Brian B. King

Although The Appalachian Trail is more than 75 years old, it is still evolving and becoming better each year. The Appalachian Trail: Celebrating America's Hiking Trail is a coffee table book-style tribute to this beloved trail and is packed with essays and awe-inspiring photography to illustrate its many important achievements. Bonus-tucked inside the back cover is a fold-out map of the Appalachian Trail in case you find yourself ready for a journey.

Continental Divide: Wildlife, People and the Border Wall

By Krista Schlyer

The controversial debate on the man-made separation between the United States and Mexico has been raging for years, but one aspect left out of the debate is the wall's effect on the natural environment. In Continental Divide: Wildlife, People and the Border Wall, author Krista Schlyer explores devastated wildlife migration paths and compromised wild lands due to this rerouting of human traffic and closing off of the border.

Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family's Year on the Water, in the Woods and at the Table

By Dylan Tomine

Remembering his childhood when his mother would have him pick blackberries for pies, Dylan Tomine continued his wild food gathering with his own family as a way to connect and spend time in the outdoors. This beautifully written book describes his family's experiences growing vegetables, fishing for salmon, foraging for mushrooms, digging for oysters and hunting for deer. Although much of their food comes from the grocery store, Tomine explains that foraging is not his family's means for survival but rather his way to raise a family in the current world that is still grounded with the natural world around them.

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