Walking Home: Trail Stories

Reminiscent of Cheryl Strayed's Wild, Celia Ryker's Walking Home: Trail Stories, is about more than mud and sweat and blisters while distance hiking the Long Trail. It's about where Ryker's mind wanders as her legs carry her forward, beyond a woodland path, to places and people she thought she had forgotten. Her grandmother's spirit appears on Mount Baker. A lost cousin waits for her at the bottom of every ladder. Her late father's words reverberate among the calls of barred owls. There were days when she didn't see another hiker, but she was never alone. This difficult hike that took eight years to finish lead Ryker to remember, and write about, the people who guided and inspired her throughout her life. These are her "trail stories."

• | Author: Celia Ryker
• | Publisher: Rootstock Publishing
• | Publication Date: June 22, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 238 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1578690536
• | ISBN-13: 9781578690534