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