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Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart

An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

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Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart

By: Carrot Quinn
Narrated by: Erin Spencer
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Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the Internet. The city makes her numb, and she's having trouble connecting with others. In a desperate move, she breaks away from everything to walk 2,660 miles from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. It will be her first long-distance hike.

In the desert of Southern California, Carrot faces many challenges, both physical and emotional: pain, injury, blisters, aching cold and searing heat, dehydration, exhaustion, loneliness. In the wilderness she happens upon and becomes close with an eclectic group of strangers - people she wouldn't have chanced to meet in the "regular world" but who are brought together, here on the trail, by their one common goal: to make it to Canada before the snow flies.

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A well performed recollection of a through hike experience. Just too much sex for me!

Too much sex!

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I loved the hiking and adventure escapism, but carrot really annoyed me as a person. so scared to be her own person and do anything with any one. I found myself eye rolling every few minutes when she'd whine about wanting to stay with her "friends" or her repeated questions "what is...." was a constant one. she felt too people please-y. Great book but carrots not my kind of person :)

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With all the reviews saying too much sex, I was waiting for it. There isn't any. Gets mentioned about 3/4 of the way through.
Carrot writes in a very descriptive manner and does an excellent job in taking you along on her journey.
Erin does a masterful reading, very much bringing the character to life. Well worth the listen.

Great listen

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This was a great tale of a walk along the PCT, expressed with heart. Recommended.

A great tale.

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The naration and writing style was hard to listen to at first but got slightly better towards the end. There is one part where the author used onomatopoeia excessively to describe the wind and it was completely overkill, I almost stopped listening but pushed through and I'm glad I did. Many beautifully profound insights along her journey that I'm glad I listened to.

Glad I stuck it out

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