Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart

An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Carrot Quinn

Narrated by: Erin Spencer

Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the Internet. The city makes her numb, and she's having trouble connecting with others. In a desperate move, she breaks away from everything to walk 2,660 miles from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. It will be her first long-distance hike.

In the desert of Southern California, Carrot faces many challenges, both physical and emotional: pain, injury, blisters, aching cold and searing heat, dehydration, exhaustion, loneliness. In the wilderness she happens upon and becomes close with an eclectic group of strangers - people she wouldn't have chanced to meet in the "regular world" but who are brought together, here on the trail, by their one common goal: to make it to Canada before the snow flies.

©2015 Carrot Quinn (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

wondrous

thank you, Carrot, for carrying me and your readers on your journey, and for sharing your heart so fully. and thank you, Erin, for being such a soulful and solid conveyance of Carrot's experience as reader. Carrot, my reluctance to read the story of someone so different in age and in so many ways dissipated as your writing drew me in to remember all that binds us. I greatly appreciated your sharing of your shifting emotions and thoughts and your hunger, your, solutions, and your missteps. i was constantly rewinding so as to miss no detail. i hope this book sells well for you, Carrot. you are such a fine raconteur. I listened to the story in my car and on planes. i started to feel like I was right with you. i found myself searching for trail food in grocery stores and shivering when you were cold. i wanted to spirit you off to a physician so many times to fix your ailments. we readers/listners have you and Erin to thank for enveloping us all on that PCT ribbon of land. Please write, Carrot; write more. i so wish you well.

Great book on the PCT

This boom kept my attention and interest from start to finish. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in the outdoors.

lovely story

This book was well written and well read. I enjoyed following Carrott on the pct.

“I don’t know “

It was a good thing I listened in short increments otherwise I would have lost my mind listening to the amount of “yeah”s and “I don’t know”s. Some of the descriptions were great but the dialogue was awful, boring and just plain dreadful. I gave it a 3 because of the dialogue she had with other characters.

Thru hiking will break your heart

Enjoyed Karrots hike on the Pacific Crest Trail despite blisters, dessert heat, bear. getting lost, snow, ers. Friends and hiking, hiking, hiking and her wonder and enjoying trail "magic" was good!

A beatiful hike through nature, and life

Really well narrated. An interresting look into a life (on the trail). Adresses both physical and internal struggles about hiking in the wild and avoiding society.

addictively struggled

wasn't sure if I was depressed after or not. confused about carrot's. sexual preference, thinking night of been better not to know any of it at all. understand why carrot suffered from depression though clearly is validated. pretty much sums it up

Ramen Ruined It

I really enjoyed listening to the first portion of the book while cleaning or driving. I liked the narrators voice and was excited for carrots journey.However, when Ramen entered the story I lost a lot of interest. The story and the writing didn’t feel as strong as the beginning at this point.

wrong book right story

got this thinking it was Wild. stopped and listened to Wild and this book is better!

Beautiful story

It’s a hiking story but also a love story. Love the descriptions of the sights.