The Pacific Crest Trail

Mark Larabee has been the managing editor for the Pacific Crest Trail Association since 2010. A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, he spent twenty-five years as a newspaper reporter and editor. In 2005, he spent four months researching a 13-part series about the Pacific Crest Trail.

Barney Scout Mann is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in Backpacker, the Oregonian, and the PCT Communicator. He served as chair of the Pacific Crest Trail Association s board of directors from 2012 to 2015. His first hike on the PCT was in 1965, and he thru-hiked the PCT in 2007.

Cheryl Strayed is the author of the No. 1 New York Times best-selling memoir Wild.

Makes me want to grab my pack and pick up this new book!  
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist and bestselling author.

The most inspiring, gorgeous and hiking-shoe-tugging book.  
Angala Ballard, author of A Blistered Kind of Love, Barbara Savage Award Winner

"Best Travel Books of 2016. All you ever wanted to know about this famed 2,650-mile route from Mexico to Canada is tucked inside this official trail book, published in conjunction with the Pacific Crest Trail Association. Learn about the trail s history through archival photos and documents, and draw out your own route on the included trail map. Fans of Cheryl Strayed's 2012 memoir and #1 New York Times Bestseller, Wild, can delve deeper into that author's experience, too Strayed herself wrote the foreword.  
Smithsonian Magazine

"BEST COFFEE TABLE BOOK OF 2016. The only book published with the Pacific Crest Trail Association (which gets a cut of the proceeds), this tome features more than 300 pages of stories, maps, and, of course, photographs. It weighs more than your pack s base weight, but should you ever set down some roots, it d look pretty classy on your coffee table.
Backpacker Magazine

The Pacific Crest Trail s history and imaginative power jump from the pages of this new coffee-table book.  ... Larabee and Mann's book,The Pacific Crest Trail: Exploring America s Wilderness Trail will make you want to get out there. It's not just the prose, which is appropriately awe-stricken. It's not just the history, which is surprisingly fascinating. It's the photos. Filling up many of the book's 10"-by-10" pages, they capture the monumentality of the six national parks and 48 congressionally-designated wilderness areas through which the trail winds in California, Oregon and Washington state. Any nature enthusiast will enjoy the story. And also will be forgiven for skipping it and going straight for the photos."
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