A Walk In The Woods Book Report

A Walk in The Woods A Walk in the Woods is a true story about Bill Bryson and Stephen Katz. Bryson and Katz planned to hike the whole Appalachian Trail in one season. They are trying to complete a hike that most never fathom of doing while they are extremely under prepared physically, mentally, and emotionally. They don’t know what they’re in for and have many mishaps along the way. The book is a narrative written by Bryson himself as an account of his story along the Appalachian Trail. This book relates to an experience I had when I hiked the Appalachian Trail for six days. While reading A Walk in the Woods I thought back to my own adventures in which we met a hiker similar to Bryson and Katz when I hiked a small part of the Appalachian Trail. A Walk in the Woods focuses much on the silence and serenity of the wilderness and while myself and a group of eleven others hiked a part of the AT we met a woman named Alice who had been hiking on the AT since West Virginia with her dog Jack. To a group of people such as ourselves, who were only hiking for a couple of days, Alice seemed to be a pro hiker. While we were only completing about three to six miles a day she was hiking ten to twenty miles each day. She was similar to Bryson and Katz because she …show more content…
It made me think about how the thru-hikers that we met thought of us. It was very eye opening to read another perspective about an experience like this and even though things did not go as planned for Bryson and Katz they made the best of everything even if they never did hike the whole 2,200 miles of the Appalachian Trail. They talked about people who had offered such kindness as to give them food and rides and I thought about my experience and when we gave extra food to thru-hikers and how happy they were. It didn’t seem like a sacrifice at all for us, but it meant the world to