Pacific Crest Trail through-hiker memoir. Rebecca Solnit’s Wanderlust is a good companion to Americana. Makes me want to read Wild, which Healy mentioned reading to prepare for the trail. Americana is also yet another indictment of the USA’s shitty & evil immigration regime (although Healy did not recount any especially traumatic immigration experiences). Bolsters my feeling that through-hiking the entire PCT is not for me (even though I would like to be the sort of person who could). Hiking the entire PCT (or even most of it) in one go is an incredible feat of physical & psychic strength, & would be a wonderful source of smug satisfaction, but I feel like it would be hard to appreciate & explore many of the areas the PCT passes through while keeping up the pace necessary to make the whole trail in a season. Americana is a great endorsement of the camaraderie to be found on the PCT.