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Ryan Benz

While successful by most external measures, by his early thirties, Ryan Benz felt empty and exhausted, dissatisfied with his life, and eager to strengthen his connection to himself and the natural world. In the prime of his life, he chose a nontraditional path, diving headfirst into the world of mindfulness and letting go of everything contributing to his unhappiness-including the career he had spent over ten years building. Turning to the healing power of nature, Benz's trek took him over two thousand miles through the woods from Georgia to Maine, and with each step traveled, he returned a little closer to his true self. Ryan now spends his time sharing his story to show others they have the power to choose their own path.

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Carrot Quinn

I'm a writer and a long-distance hiker.

You can read more of my adventures and essays on my blog- carrotquinn.com

My instagram is @carrotquinn - instagram.com/carrotquinn

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Michael Tyler

Michael Tyler ireceived his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1998. He has hiked, climbed peaks, and traveled around the world. Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail was his first long distance thru hike, and Walking Thru is his first full-length book. Michael currently lives with his wife, Margo, in northern California.

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Keith Foskett

Keith Foskett has hiked over 12,000 miles in the last few years and holds a deep respect for the outdoor spaces of this world. His adventures form the basis of much of his writing.

The Journey in Between, an account of his 1,000 mile journey on El Camino de Santiago in Spain.

The Last Englishman, an epic adventure along the 2,640 mile Pacific Crest Trail in the United States.

Balancing on Blue, the second of his big hikes in America follows his continued addiction to thru-hiking on the Appalachian trail.

Travelled Far is a short read about his many adventures, both at home in England, the abroad.

A Thru-Hiking Trilogy is a collection of his first three books.

His latest book called High and Low, was released in March 2018.

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Carrot Quinn

I'm a writer and a long-distance hiker.

You can read more of my adventures and essays on my blog- carrotquinn.com

My instagram is @carrotquinn - instagram.com/carrotquinn

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Claire Henley Miller

Claire Henley Miller is the author of Mile 445 and the writer behind the Substack newsletter Tennessean in Maine. She holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and currently lives in Maine with her husband, four children, and two cats. Claire loves hiking, canoeing, and camping with her family, and she draws inspiration for her writing from their many adventures. Follow her on Instagram at @clairehenleymiller and subscribe to Tennessean in Maine to follow along on her family’s adventures.

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David Miller

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Michael Tyler

Michael Tyler ireceived his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1998. He has hiked, climbed peaks, and traveled around the world. Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail was his first long distance thru hike, and Walking Thru is his first full-length book. Michael currently lives with his wife, Margo, in northern California.

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Gary Sizer

Gary Sizer was born in New Castle, PA. Years of military service and software consulting fed his passion for travel, which he chronicles in his latest book, Home is Forward, out now. After walking the Appalachian Trail in 2014, his before and after pictures went viral, and since then millions of people have seen him in his underpants. Now Gary hikes and lives in the hills near Asheville, NC, where he occasionally records stories for NPR's The Moth.

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Heather Anish Anderson

National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, Heather Anderson is the only woman who has completed the Appalachian, Pacific Crest and Continental Divide National Scenic Trails each three times. This includes her historic Calendar Year Triple Crown hike in 2018 when she hiked all three of those trails in one March-November season, making her the first female to do so.

She also holds the overall self-supported Fastest Known Time (FKT) on the Pacific Crest Trail (2013)–hiking it in 60 days, 17 hours, 12 min, which broke the previous men’s record by four days and established the first female record. She also holds the female self-supported FKT on the Appalachian Trail (2015) in a time of 54 days, 7 hours, 48 minutes, and the Arizona Trail (2016) w

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Roger W. Lowther

Roger W. Lowther is founder and director of Community Arts Tokyo, assisting church planting through the arts. Roger is also director of faith and art at Grace City Church Tokyo and coordinator for the MAKE Collective, a global network of missionary artists. He has been serving with Mission to the World in Japan since 2005. Roger received degrees from The Juilliard School and Columbia University and is currently studying at Reformed Theological Seminary. He lives in downtown Tokyo with his wife Abi and four boys.

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Esther Parry

Esther Parry is just an ordinary middle aged English woman who has always suspected that there’s more to life than money and the comforts of, let’s say, a roof over your head and food on the table.
Despite achieving a first-class honours degree in Biological Anthropology at the age of 49, she refuses to be drawn into the rat race, or let her life be defined by it. This is baffling to many people…particularly to her mother!

If you asked her for advice, she’d say three things:
Always find something to be thankful for – but sometimes you have to look REALLY hard.
Always find something to laugh at – even if it's yourself!
Buy a houseplant – every life needs a houseplant.

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Ryan Benz

While successful by most external measures, by his early thirties, Ryan Benz felt empty and exhausted, dissatisfied with his life, and eager to strengthen his connection to himself and the natural world. In the prime of his life, he chose a nontraditional path, diving headfirst into the world of mindfulness and letting go of everything contributing to his unhappiness-including the career he had spent over ten years building. Turning to the healing power of nature, Benz's trek took him over two thousand miles through the woods from Georgia to Maine, and with each step traveled, he returned a little closer to his true self. Ryan now spends his time sharing his story to show others they have the power to choose their own path.

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Audrey Payne

Hi, I'm Audrey Payne. I'm an avid hiker and backpacker, and in 2018, after recovering from a debilitating spinal injury, I quit my job in Washington, D.C., to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Then, I wrote a memoir about it! Now, I live in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, where I get outdoors every chance I get. Check out my trail memoir, "Where the Rhododendrons Bloom: A Thru-Hiking Adventure on the Appalachian Trail" to learn what it's REALLY like to hike the AT and what happens if you dare to follow your wildest dreams.

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Gary Sizer

Gary Sizer was born in New Castle, PA. Years of military service and software consulting fed his passion for travel, which he chronicles in his latest book, Home is Forward, out now. After walking the Appalachian Trail in 2014, his before and after pictures went viral, and since then millions of people have seen him in his underpants. Now Gary hikes and lives in the hills near Asheville, NC, where he occasionally records stories for NPR's The Moth.

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Reginald Spittle

Reg Spittle and his wife Sue raised three sons in the shadow of Yosemite National Park, regularly exploring its many trails. As an educator, he won a Fulbright teaching exchange in Scotland and taught political science in California. He was a journalist at five newspapers. An avid traveler, he had no idea retirement would present him with even greater life challenges. Reg and Sue live in Ashland, Oregon.

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Claire Henley Miller

Claire Henley Miller is the author of Mile 445 and the writer behind the Substack newsletter Tennessean in Maine. She holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and currently lives in Maine with her husband, four children, and two cats. Claire loves hiking, canoeing, and camping with her family, and she draws inspiration for her writing from their many adventures. Follow her on Instagram at @clairehenleymiller and subscribe to Tennessean in Maine to follow along on her family’s adventures.

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Roger W. Lowther

Roger W. Lowther is founder and director of Community Arts Tokyo, assisting church planting through the arts. Roger is also director of faith and art at Grace City Church Tokyo and coordinator for the MAKE Collective, a global network of missionary artists. He has been serving with Mission to the World in Japan since 2005. Roger received degrees from The Juilliard School and Columbia University and is currently studying at Reformed Theological Seminary. He lives in downtown Tokyo with his wife Abi and four boys.

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Esther Parry

Esther Parry is just an ordinary middle aged English woman who has always suspected that there’s more to life than money and the comforts of, let’s say, a roof over your head and food on the table.
Despite achieving a first-class honours degree in Biological Anthropology at the age of 49, she refuses to be drawn into the rat race, or let her life be defined by it. This is baffling to many people…particularly to her mother!

If you asked her for advice, she’d say three things:
Always find something to be thankful for – but sometimes you have to look REALLY hard.
Always find something to laugh at – even if it's yourself!
Buy a houseplant – every life needs a houseplant.

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Bill Walker

Bill Walker was raised in Macon, Georgia and attended the University of Georgia, where he earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Accounting. He traded U.S. Treasury Bonds at the Chicago Board of Trade for 10 years. He then moved to London where he traded German Bonds for Nomura International at the London International Futures Exchange for four years.

Upon leaving the trading business, Bill took a radical turn. He served for a year as a volunteer in a welfare reform program in South Texas. He then taught English as a second language in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru.

He came to hiking late in life, but has tried to make up for it. In 2005 he thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail. In 2006, he hiked the Long Trail. In 2009, he hik

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Audrey Payne

Hi, I'm Audrey Payne. I'm an avid hiker and backpacker, and in 2018, after recovering from a debilitating spinal injury, I quit my job in Washington, D.C., to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Then, I wrote a memoir about it! Now, I live in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, where I get outdoors every chance I get. Check out my trail memoir, "Where the Rhododendrons Bloom: A Thru-Hiking Adventure on the Appalachian Trail" to learn what it's REALLY like to hike the AT and what happens if you dare to follow your wildest dreams.

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Jane Congdon

Jane Congdon grew up in the mountains of West Virginia. After graduating from Concord College (now Concord University), she made a career of words, working as an English teacher and a newspaper reporter before finding her niche as a textbook editor in Cincinnati, Ohio. She retired in 2009.

At age 59, Jane followed Dracula's footsteps through Transylvania, resulting in the memoir It Started with Dracula: The Count, My Mother, and Me (©2011). She then co-authored her brother's memoir, Mr. Joe: Tales from a Haunted Life (©2013). Both books were published by Bettie Youngs Book Publishers and are available from Amazon and other outlets.

At age 69, Jane returned to the mountains as a backpacker. To date she has hiked 1,195 miles of the Appalachian

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Lyle Closs

I started writing when I was 15, about the time I started climbing. I have written and published four books on Amazon: articles on climbing and mountaineering; a Western; a historical fiction about Tasmanian convict cannibals; and a non-fiction about an expedition to K2. Now focusing on literary fiction.

I read history and literature. My favourite books include Lermontov's A Hero of our Time, Tolstoy's The Cossacks, Kerouac's On the Road, Miller's Black Spring, Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and Sholokov's And Quiet Flows the Don.

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Hidden Wounds is a literary late life love story if you can excuse the alliteration.

Head Wounds is a novella describing a polar bear attack and the horrifying aftermath.

My climbing-related stor

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