A Trek Against Time and Distance
by Jeff Garmire
This is hard to review subjectively…I enjoyed it because I like almost all books about long treks on trails. I especially appreciated the author’s enjoyment of the natural world around him, despite his travails to cover the distance of all three major trails in one calendar year. Without flip-flopping, either. Pretty awesome.
But I have to admit that the day-to-day details got a little boring. A lot boring, actually. At some points I was just reading a daily blog posting—where he went, how much elevation he conquered, and how many faceplants he took. I kept wishing he could slow down and write about the beauties he encountered. Write more about them, that is. Because he certainly did write about them, just not in as much detail as I wanted.
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