Barney Scout Mann - Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail

FEW THINGS ARE more innately human, rooted deeply in our shared history, than storytelling and traversing land masses on foot. In Journeys North, master story-teller Barney Scout Mann invites us to gather around his campfire as he weaves the narratives of ordinary people hiking thousands of miles across desert and mountains. The unfolding of their stories against the backdrop of nature at her most sublime, and her most fierce, reveals their primal humanness in powerful relief. Their interactions, with nature and with each other, prove that we are more connected and wildly capable than we believe.

HEATHER ANISH ANDERSON, adventurer and author of Thirst

BARNEY SCOUT MANN has painted an exciting and profoundly moving portrait of a long trail and the quirky humans moved to walk it. A fantastic book!

ASPEN MATIS, author of Girl in the Woods

THE PACIFIC CREST Trail is more than a simple footpath. Its wild scenery offers life-changing experiences and a welcoming, supportive community. Scouts unique tale and the stories of the people he met along the way speak to the power of true friendship and the transformative potential of Americas great outdoors.

MARK LARABEE, associate director of communications and marketing for the Pacific Crest Trail Association

BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED AND brutally honest, this narrative does justice to the essence of what a thru-hike entails, from the exuberant first steps to the pure grit and determination of finishing fever pitted against natures forces, visiting the highs, lows, and pain along the way. This is not a how-to primer, but instead a peek inside the dreams, demons, and aspirations that motivate and drive hikers onward, becoming trail family along the way. While this is a snapshot of a handful of hikers in a single year, it is a timeless and true tale.

DONNA SAUFLEY, trail angel and owner of Hiker Heaven

THE LONG TRAILS teach us the importance of wilderness, value of freedom, and a realization of whats important in life. Its about those we meet too, and this is where Journeys North triumphs. The building of new friendships, and nurturing of the existing ones is a delight to read. A truly worthwhile memoir.

KEITH FOZZIE FOSKETT, long-distance hiker and author of The Last Englishman

JOURNEYS NORTHTAKES us along on a challenging and rich hike of the Pacific Crest Trail. The year is 2007, when Barney Scout Mann and his wife, Sandy Frodo Mann, set out to thru-hike from the Mexican border to just over the Canadian border. Scouts imagery transported me, but most engrossing of all may be the relationships that formed as Scout and Frodo worked their way north while walking their 20-to-30-mile days, with four other hikersBlazer, Dalton, Tony, and Nadineand an extended family with dozens more. A rich tale of adventure, freedom, accomplishment, fears and tearsyou need to read this book!

SUSAN BACKPACK45 ALCORN, author of Were in the Mountains Not Over the Hill

BARNEY SCOUT MANN speaks of the capacity for surprise on the Pacific Crest Trail. For this stunning book, however, hone your capacity for shockprimal intimacy with the lives of Blazer, Dalton, Nadine and Pacha, Tony, many others as well as Scout and Frodo, and the Pacific Crest Trail itself. When someone asks, why thru-hike a long trail, Mann says You have to really, really want to do it. Read Journeys North as if your life depended on it.

GAIL D. STOREY, author of I Promise Not to Suffer

HIKING THE PACIFIC Crest Trail is an experience unlike any other due to the landscape, the community, and the internal transformation that takes place on a 2663-mile trail. In Journeys North, Barney Scout Mann weaves together all three components in a captivating narrative.

JENNIFER PHARR DAVIS, author, speaker, adventurer

MANN EASILY CAPTURES the nature of the thru-hiker community... Journeys North put me back on the trail and kept me up reading all night.

KAREN BERGER, Triple Crown hiker and author of Great Hiking Trails of the World

JOURNEYS NORTHIS a masterclass in story telling. Barney Scout Mann invites readers into his trail family to experience a journey in goosebump-inducing detail. This book hits at the core of what makes a thru-hike such a profoundly beautiful experiencethe people you meet along the way.

ZACH DAVIS, editor in chief of The Trek

HERES THE NEXT best thing to being on the Pacific Crest Trail yourself!

RICHARD LOUV, author of Our Wild Calling and Last Child in the Woods

JOURNEYS
NORTH

The Pacific Crest Trail

BARNEY SCOUT MANN

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Cartographer: Martha Bostwick

All photographs by the author unless credited otherwise

Cover illustration: Thousand Island Lake, Banner Peak, Sierra Nevada by Obi Kaufmann

Inside covers: A few of the thousands of hikers who have slept at Frodos and the authors San Diego house the night before starting the Pacific Crest Trail. The inside front cover features the PCT symbol on the Southern Terminus Monument at the Mexican border. And the inside back cover is the PCT symbol on the Northern Terminus Monument at the Canadian border.

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