Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart

By Carrot Quinn,

Book cover of Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

Book description

Ditching the city for the wilderness; walking from Mexico to Canada, against all odds.
Carrot Quinn is weary of a life of screens, in a city where she feels disconnected from everyone. In a desperate move, she breaks away from everything to walk 2,660 miles from Mexico to Canada on…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is the book that first got me to try long-distance hiking in my early 30s, even though I had never gone camping for even a single night in my entire life.

I felt such resonance with Carrot’s newness to all things backpacking and was so drawn in by her emotionally honest journey, that by the end of the book I found myself believing that if she could walk from Mexico to Canada with no prior experience then maybe I could, too. 

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