Grizzly Bears and Razor Clams by Chris Townsend

Grizzly Bears and Razor Clams: Walking America's Pacific Northwest Trail

Chris Townsend

RRP: £14.99

'Grizzly Bears and Razor Clams is for anyone who hankers for remote country and endless days of primo walking.' Ron Strickland, author of the Pacific Northwest Trail Guidebook

Description

Grizzly Bears and Razor Clams tells the story of Chris Townsend’s walk along the 1200 mile Pacific Northwest Trail, which runs for 1200 miles from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean through the states of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. This is a wilderness route which much challenging terrain and remote country inhabited by bears and wolves.

The trail is in its infancy; a mix of signed footpaths, abandoned old trails, dirt roads, animal tracks and cross-country hikes that made route finding and hiking often quite difficult and sometimes potentially hazardous. Most nights were spent camped alone in the forests and mountains and the author often met no other hikers for many days at a time.

With three national parks – Glacier, North Cascades and Olympic – along the way plus many designated wilderness areas the trail passes through some of the most magnificent landscapes in the USA, many of which are pictured in the book in the author’s photographs, all taken during the walk.

CATEGORY: Travel, outdoors, United States