Trailer Trash Thoughts On an Appalachian Trail Thruhike eBook Alexander Warzinski
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I knew I would hike the Appalachian Trail. My dad took me on my first backpacking trip when I was 16, and I instantly fell in love. Backpacking isn’t easy, but it’s simple. Perfectly simple. I draw extreme pleasure from being able to survive with nothing but what I can carry on my back. You establish a baseline of comfort, and from there you are free to wander and wonder. Something in my 16-year-old head understood that thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail was the ultimate backpacking experience. After years of talking about it in high school and college to extremely patient friends, I was excited and frantically planning during my final semester at school to finally get underway. I’m pleased to say I hiked all 2,185.3 miles from Springer Mountain, Georgia to Mount Katahdin, Maine from May 24th-Sep. 27th, 2014.
This ebook is the fullest written representation of the trail I can give.
Trailer Trash Thoughts On an Appalachian Trail Thruhike eBook Alexander Warzinski
I'm most of the way thru this journal and find myself really enjoying it. Being trapped in the house during a long east coast winter, I'm appreciative of the detail and length.It's worth noting that this is a straight up trail journal. The author has just finished school and has taken the summer "off" to get away from life. He frequently talks about dreams and things and people from his personal life, often with footnotes providing context. Most people met while hiking get footnotes, but those from his personal life (who mainly make appearances while sleeping) do not get the same treatment, so the reader is left to fill-in-the-blanks.
I've read pretty much everything hiking related that I can get my hands on over the last few months, and I find that most often I don't feel like I'm "there" with the author. That's not the case here. For anyone considering a thru hike, I perceive this journal gives a very good representation of the daily grind. You have to take it for what it is... if you don't mind the lack of traditional story structure and are interested in someone's thoughts and feelings while hiking the AT, it's a good read.
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Trailer Trash Thoughts On an Appalachian Trail Thruhike eBook Alexander Warzinski Reviews
Gave me a sense of being there with all the unusual emotions and remembered dreams. Clearly, finding comfortable sleeping areas were more important than finding/filtering water.
my rating says what it is....
This book is not very wordy and smooth. It is the actual journal the author kept as he hiked the AT. So it captures the emotions he felt on his encounters with the trail, wildlife, and other hikers.
Hard to put down!
Trail-er Trash is an unedited trail journal as other reviewers have noted. I just skipped over the dream sequences which are tedious to anyone who isn't Alexander. I was struck by the author's dismissive, almost contemptuous, attitude to hikers older than himself. Ageism among the young may be a prevailing sentiment, but other memoirs of hiking the AT don't include it. The author's energy and honesty keep the predictable narrative moving along and it's hard to stop reading this book.
It was fun to read such a current book on the market so quick, after a 2014 hike. Especially with the mentioning of the now famous Bismark and Lady Hiker Friend, not realizing the post side story. Author is young and simply wrote his thoughts down. Nothing terribly insightful or profound. Maybe that is simply the result of his attempt to live in the moment and not look forward or backwards. He enjoyed his time on the trail and the writing is easy enough to enjoy following along. It just doesn't compare to other AT Classics but wasn't probably intended to be for that purpose.
Not exactly a typical AT thru hiker account but nice account of people encounters and for a guy who claims to sometimes have bouts of depression he had a great outlook. He seemed so forgiving of peoples stupidity and sometimes ride behavior you can't help but like him. If I hiked the AT I would hope to run into folks like him. He truly seems to love the trail and the mountains. I would have liked to have heard a bit more about his gear and camp set up - he was rather vague about sleeping under a tarp and what else he carried and used but he never devolved into a boring daily recant of trail miles that some AT thru hike accounts become. He never ran out of something new to say.
A transcribed, mostly un-edited Trail Journal, not unlike the trail journal/blogs that I like to follow during AT season every year. This was worth my time & money.
If I could make suggestions for the published version 1. edit out the vast majority of the dream recollections, which were personal but really didn't add any insight for the reader. 2. Provide context within the text instead of in 300+ footnotes. Flipping back and forth from text to footnote gets annoying. 3. Spend a little more time talking about the hiking and the terrain, and a little less time talking about the sheltering and cataloging of every hiker who was staying at each shelter. The most interesting parts of this journal were the author's personal reflections on self and how his time on the trail affected him, and I wish there were more of those.
Those are nitpicks though, and I don't mean them to give the impression that this wasn't an enjoyable read, because it was.
I'm most of the way thru this journal and find myself really enjoying it. Being trapped in the house during a long east coast winter, I'm appreciative of the detail and length.
It's worth noting that this is a straight up trail journal. The author has just finished school and has taken the summer "off" to get away from life. He frequently talks about dreams and things and people from his personal life, often with footnotes providing context. Most people met while hiking get footnotes, but those from his personal life (who mainly make appearances while sleeping) do not get the same treatment, so the reader is left to fill-in-the-blanks.
I've read pretty much everything hiking related that I can get my hands on over the last few months, and I find that most often I don't feel like I'm "there" with the author. That's not the case here. For anyone considering a thru hike, I perceive this journal gives a very good representation of the daily grind. You have to take it for what it is... if you don't mind the lack of traditional story structure and are interested in someone's thoughts and feelings while hiking the AT, it's a good read.
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