After the death of her grandmother, Annie and her best friend Pete decide to embark on a wilderness backpacking trip that will have devastating consequences for them. Annie and Pete are no strangers to death, both having lost their mothers, but they are best friends, and best friends who share their emotions and recklessness together. They’ve been best friends since they were little and had gone on countless reckless and dangerous adventures together. Now they’ve decided to go on a ten-day backpacking trip through the mountains of Washington State, ending at Fire Camp where they’ll learn to fight the area’s growing wildfire problem. Yet their recklessness will have consequences as they purposefully choose to put themselves sin danger and neglect to prepare and actually take precautions to make sure their trip will be safe. They are all about the wild and throwing caution to the wind... but this decision to continue to make one horrible decision after another leads to a devastating end for one of them. This book really was irritating to read because at first you think its going to be an emotional journey for two people who are soul mates and experiences death but what you get is a reckless journey done by two friends who are in love with each other but really have no clue how to actually prep or take the proper measures to ensure their own safety. Decision after decision, you see them make terrible ones and you are just sitting there thinking “WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?” from the car crash to not checking supplies or even prepping for stuff to be sufficiently charged and food prepped to not be expired, so no one is really surprise when they get lost, Pete gets injured and they dont have enough bandages or antibiotics that lead to well... you know....and then it just ends with Annie deciding to HITCHHIKE despite what happened, and throw caution to the wind again. She literally has a death wish at this point. This book was frustrating because Annie doesn’t learn anything and she doesn’t really change after the events that happened, the book romanticizes recklessness and it honestly just is a tragic. Honestly, I did not have a great time with it and couldn’t really recommend it for anyone.