#Cheryl Muir

[thistlecatfics]

This subject came up with my friend last week so here is my attempt at starting a list of the best writers/artists of my (millennial) generation.

Requirements: my subjective personal taste, staying power, being iconically millennial/speaking to my generation, big name in their field even if not big name overall, not just a social media shit-stirrer

Sally Rooney (novels)

Taylor Swift (songwriting)

Beyonce (performance/singing) (gen x cusp)

RF Kuang (fantasy) (gen z cusp)

Tamsyn Muir (scifi)

Ocean Vuong (poetry, literary fiction)

Jia Tolentino, Jamelle Bouie, Ezra Klein (commentary)

Ronan Farrow, Sarah Kliff (investigative journalism)

Ed Yong (science writing) (gen x cusp)

Lin Manuel Miranda (musicals) (gen x cusp)

Other writers/artists I considered: Casey McQuiston (new adult/romance), Leigh Bardugo (YA/fantasy), SA Chakraborty (fantasy), Kai Cheng Thom (?? instagram-y writing?), Chanel Miller (memoir/visual art), Lady Gaga (performance), Jon Favreau (speech writing), Amanda Gorman (poet) (gen z), adrienne maree brown (essays) (gen x)

Who am I missing? Who absolutely needs to be on this list? I'm particularly looking for more nonfiction writers, poets, visual artists and non-Americans since those are areas I'm less familiar with.

BONUS Gen X honorees because I kept thinking of people who turned out to be Gen X:

Emily Wilson (translation)

NK Jemisin (fantasy)

Patrick Radden Keefe (history)

Jessica Valenti, Moira Donegan, Ta-Nehisi Coates (political commentary)

Cheryl Strayed (advice columns)

Susanne Collins (YA)

Kiese Laymon (memoir, essays)

Junot Diaz (fiction, short stories)

Jhumpa Lahari (fiction, short stories)

[therealcrimediary]

Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details) [ad_1] 36 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder and Deception Readers Love This Series - Over 7,000 Five-Star Ratings on Amazon & Goodreads Three Book Collection: Volumes 7, 8, and 9 of the True Crime Case Histories Series (2022) *** This series can be read in any order ***If you’re a fan of true crime, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the big-name cases: Ted Bundy, BTK, David Berkowitz, Christopher Watts, Diane Downs, Casey Anthony, Jeffrey Dahmer, Jodi Arias, Ed Gein, etc. The list of well-known, notorious cases throughout history is seemingly endless. Books, websites, podcasts, streaming television series, and magazines are filled with their abhorrent tales of mayhem. They’re some of the most foul killers the world has ever known. In my books, I do my best to find stories you may not have heard of. To do this, I count on my readers to send me stories that may have gone forgotten and aren't found all over the internet. Inside, you'll find 36 True Crime stories from the 100 years. Many of which you may never have heard of. You'll read the story of five-year-old Stephanie Hebert, who walked only three houses down her quiet suburban sidewalk and disappeared forever. Her case went cold for forty years before other children from her neighborhood came forward in their adulthood with information leading to the killer. There’s the story of the sadistic mother who viewed her children only as the spawn of their demon father, torturing them for their entire short lives. You’ll also read of the deranged husband and wife team who started their own cult and made it their life’s mission to rid the world of witches. Another story tells the disheartening tale of a toddler’s skeleton found in a suitcase on the side of the road. Motorcyclists discovered her mother’s skeleton more than 600 miles away. Five years had passed, with no one even realizing they were missing. There’s also the heartbreaking story of a single mom, drowning in debt, who did the unthinkable for insurance money. Many of the stories in this book feature women killers, three of whom took the time to meticulously dismember their victims—a task that can take great strength. Another woman manipulated her two teenage boys into killing for her. Plus many more disturbing stories. The stories in this volume are shocking and exhibit human behavior at its absolute worst. Pure evil. However, these things really happen in the world. We may never understand what goes on in a killer’s mind, but at least we can be better informed. Included in this volume: Stephen McDaniel, Lauren Giddings, Leonard Tyburksi, Dorothy Tyburksi, Cheryl Knuckle, Greg Rowe, Ellen Boehm, Bevan Spencer von Einem, Alan Barnes, Neil Muir, Peter Stogneff, Richard Kelvin, Omaima Nelson, Betty Freiberg, Kimberly Hricko, Steven Hricko, Hilma Marie Witte, Sky McDonough, Leanna Walker, Carol Carlson, Daniel Carlson, Gerard John Schaefer, Evans Ganthier, Rebecca Koster, Gary Vintner, Mikhail Drachev, Chris Andrews, Dennis Tsoukanov, Sean Southland, Konstantin Simberg, Jason Massey, Brian King, Christina Benjamin, Sheila Keen, Debbie Warren, Michael Warren, Marlene Ahrens, Charles Albright, Travis Lewis, Martha McKay, Grant Amato, Cody Amato, Chad Amato, Margaret Amato, Robert Willy Pickton, Marty Dill, Heather Teague, Joe Ball, Jared Chance, Ashley Young, Theresa Knorr, Robert Knorr, William Knorr, Jason Vendrick Franklin, Stephanie Hebert, John Joubert, Danny Jo Eberle, Christopher Walden, Ricky Stetson, Anna Maria Cardona, Lazaro Figueroa, Charles Schmid, Jeremy Gipson, Jessica Thornsberry, Justina Morley, Domenic Coia, Nicholas Coia, Eddie Batzig, Jason Sweeney, Angela Stoltd, Jimmy Sheaffer, Vincent Tabak, Joanna Yeates, Edmund Arne Matthews, Lisa Ann Mather, Daniel Holdom, Karlie Pearce-Stevenson, Khandalyce Pearce-Stevenson, James Carson, Michael Bear, Suzan Bear, Susan Barnes Carson From the Publisher

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[jpkoudstaal]

🥾 The Long Way Home

Titouan Le Roux, a 25-year-old French filmmaker, solo hiked the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) — 4,270 kilometers in 165 days.

I’ve watched a lot of hiking videos over the last few year and this one stands out from the rest. The cinematography is stunning, especially knowing he filmed this completely by himself. While I didn’t care so much for the poetic narration, the visuals are stunning. 😍

Checkout his instagram stories and his 19-part blog too. He’ll be hiking the Continental Divide Trail (4,873 km) next, looking forward to the sequel!

It made me re-watch “Wild” this weekend, the memoir of Cheryl Strayed hiking on the PCT, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. It resonated more deeply this time, with Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern delivering powerful performances.

The book and film’s release coincided with a surge in PCT permit applications, jumping from 1,879 in 2013 to 7,852 in 2022. Hope it doesn’t get ruined by popularity. 😕

Harmen Hoek also released another video, this time he hiked the John Muir Trail, which is mostly part of the PCT, in 21 days. Makes me dream of doing a thru-hike someday.

#Youtube

[marnz]

16 and 20 for the book asks?

hi anon, i see you chose violence and i support you in this! i will join you.

16. What is the most over-hyped book you read this year? GOD. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy was extremely bad. What are editors doing nowadays? Just letting authors smoosh 5 different books together because any mystery about a sad white woman will sell? I also recently read To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidah Jenkins because I love a bike ride and also I was intrigued by the prospect of the author reconciling sexuality, career, and dream job....HAHAHA! The thing you have to be willing to do as an author of a memoir, and to buy into as a reader, is to actually make progress on these issues and then finish the book with self reflection. Ideally you'd let the experience marinate for a while. Anyway this book did not do any of this, this book was like "let's think about this, let's be like hmmm not ideal and then let's end it the moment we reach the end of the ride." Just a complete waste of my time. Where was this man's editor? Where was his agent? Also I did not find out until 1/3 into the book that he's an instagram personality...okay. lesson learned. I have hate in my heart. I picked this book up bc it was blurbed by Cheryl Strayed and i no longer trust her!

20. What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations? Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater. Did it meet my expectations? no ❤️ Okay let's see, other anticipated releases:

Book Lovers by Emily Henry (fantastic)

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (it certainly was a locked tomb book, but I never judge locked tomb books until I reread them. I did power read this book in 12 hours in mounting rage, very similar to my experience reading Harrow the Ninth)

House of Sky and Breath by SJM (it was a SJM book. dead dove do not eat/i don't know what I expected. probably not her editor letting her make the SJM Cinametic Universe real, but, it's SJM, whatever)

thanks anon ❤️ happy 2023 to you!

#answered #anonymous #books

[einereiseblog]

Wir werfen einen Blick auf einige der besten Bücher über das Wandern, von spannenden Abenteuergeschichten bis hin zu technischen Wanderführern und allem dazwischen Wir haben die Bestsellerlisten von Amazon und Goodreads zusammen mit einigen persönlichen Favoriten verwendet, um eine Liste von unserer Meinung nach großartigen Büchern über das Wandern zusammenzustellen. 25 tolle Bücher über das Wandern Die Liste ist in keiner bestimmten Reihenfolge aufgeführt und enthält eine Mischung aus Wandererinnerungen, die in Spielfilme umgewandelt wurden, Ausrüstungs- und Feldführer sowie inspirierende Abenteuergeschichten. Wild: A Journey from Lost to Foundvon Cheryl Strayed Diese Bestseller-Erinnerung (jetzt ein Spielfilm) zeichnet die Geschichte einer 22-Jährigen nach, die die mutige und impulsive Entscheidung traf, mehr als 1.000 Meilen des Pacific Crest Trail zu wandern. A Walk Across Americavon Peter Jenkins Vor 25 Jahren machte sich ein desillusionierter junger Mann auf den Weg quer durch Amerika. Dies ist das Buch, das er über diese Reise geschrieben hat – ein klassischer Bericht über das Wiedererwachen seines Glaubens an sich selbst und sein Land. The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdomby Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho beschreibt seine Reise quer durch Spanien entlang der legendären Straße von San Tiago, die Pilger seit dem Mittelalter befahren. Into the Wildvon Jon Krakauer 1992 trampte Chris McCandless nach Alaska und wanderte alleine in die Wildnis. Vier Monate später wurde sein verwester Körper entdeckt. Wie McCandless starb, ist die unvergessliche Geschichte von Into the Wild. A Walk in the Woods: Wiederentdeckung Amerikas auf dem Appalachian Trailvon Bill BrysonIn diesem Wanderer-Bestseller, der zum Spielfilm wurde, erzählt der Klassiker Bryson von seinem etwas absurden Versuch, den Appalachian Trail zu wandern. Ehrlif/Shutterstock Der Appalachian Trail ist in mehreren Büchern auf der Liste enthalten Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survivalvon Dave CanterburyBasierend auf den fünf Cs der Überlebensfähigkeit – Schneidwerkzeuge, Abdeckung, Verbrennungsgeräte, Behälter und Tauwerk – bereitet Sie Bushcraft 101 mit Ratschlägen zur Herstellung auf Ihre nächste Wanderung vor die meiste Zeit im Freien. Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trailvon Ben MontgomeryEmma Gatewood, eine 67-jährige Urgroßmutter, erzählte ihrer Familie, dass sie spazieren gehen würde. Das nächste, was jemand von ihr hörte, war, dass sie 800 Meilen auf dem Appalachian Trail gelaufen war. Walking the Himalayas: An Adventure of Survival and Endurancevon Levison WoodNach seiner Wanderung entlang des Nils stellt sich der Entdecker Levison Wood seiner bisher größten Herausforderung: der Navigation durch die tückischen Ausläufer des höchsten Gebirges der Welt. The Backpacker's Field Manual, Revised and Updated: A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Backcountry Skillsvon Rick CurtisAls es erstmals 1998 veröffentlicht wurde, setzte es den Standard für umfassende Backpacking-Bücher. Es wurde für modernes Backpacking aktualisiert und behandelt die neuesten Entwicklungen in den Bereichen Ausrüstung, Erste Hilfe, Leave No Trace Camping und Outdoor-Führung. Fast irgendwo: Achtundzwanzig Tage auf dem John Muir Trail von Suzanne Roberts Es war 1993 und Suzanne Roberts hatte gerade ihr College beendet, als ihre Freundin vorschlug, den kalifornischen John Muir Trail zu wandern. Teils Memoiren, teils Naturgeschichte, teils Reisebericht, „Almost Somewhere“ ist Roberts‘ Bericht über diese Wanderung. Sonstig Eine Sammlung großartiger Bücher über das Wandern Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trailvon Carrot Quinn In der Wüste Südkaliforniens steht Carrot vor vielen körperlichen und emotionalen Herausforderungen: Schmerzen, Verletzungen, quälende Kälte und sengende Hitze, Dehydrierung, Erschöpfung und Einsamkeit . The January Man: A Year of Walking Britainvon

Christopher SomervilleThe January Man spielt über ein Kalenderjahr, in dem Somerville Monat für Monat, Region für Region die Routen beschreitet, die ihn an seinen Vater erinnern. Es ist eines der besten Bücher über das Wandern in der britischen Landschaft und inspiriert die Leser, die 140.000 Meilen Wanderwege über die britischen Inseln zu erkunden. Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trailvon Jennifer Pharr DavisNach ihrem College-Abschluss ist Jennifer nicht sicher, was sie mit ihrem Leben anfangen soll. Sie zieht es zum Appalachian Trail, einem 2.175 Meilen langen Wanderweg, der sich von Georgia bis Maine erstreckt. AWOL auf dem Appalachian Trailvon David MillerIm Jahr 2003 gab der Softwareentwickler David Miller seinen Job, seine Familie und seine Freunde auf, um sich einen Traum zu erfüllen und den Appalachian Trail zu wandern. Nicht nur ein Wanderführer, sondern ein ganz persönlicher Einblick in die Erfüllung eines Lebenstraums. Fifty Places to Hike Before You Die: Outdoor Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinationsvon Chris SantellaChris Santella erkundet mit Hilfe von Top-Expeditionsleitern die großartigsten Wanderziele der Welt. soft_light/Shutterstock Wanderer im Himalaya Der komplette Leitfaden für Idioten zum GeocachingGeocaching hat sich stetig zu einem unterhaltsamen und dauerhaften Outdoor-Abenteuer entwickelt, das Hand in Hand mit dem Wandern geht. Wenn Sie, wie ich, immer noch keine Ahnung haben, was es ist, dann wird dieses Buch alles erklären. The Old Ways: A Journey on Footvon Robert MacfarlaneIn diesem exquisit geschriebenen Buch, das Naturgeschichte, Kartographie, Geologie und Literatur zusammenfaltet, macht sich Robert Macfarlane auf den Weg, um den alten Routen zu folgen, die die Landschaften der britischen Inseln durchziehen. Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1.700 Miles of Australian Outback von Robyn DavidsonRobyn Davidsons Memoiren über ihre gefährliche Reise über 1.700 Meilen durch die feindliche australische Wüste zum Meer mit nur vier Kamelen und einem Hund als Gesellschaft. Ultralight Backpackin' Tips: 153 Amazing & Inexpensive Tips For Extremely Lightweight Campingby Mike Clelland Kurz, auf den Punkt gebracht und humorvoll illustriert von Mike Clelland, präsentiert dieses Buch alles, was Ultraleicht-Wanderer und Rucksacktouristen brauchen, um sicher, komfortabel und gut ernährt zu sein. I Hikevon Lawton Grinter „Ich habe nie vor, 10.000 Meilen zu wandern. Es ist einfach im Laufe eines Jahrzehnts passiert.“ Und so geht es mit Lawton Grinters überzeugender Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, die über 10 Jahre und 10.000 Trail-Meilen in der Entstehung waren. Weitere großartige Geschichten von der Spur Girl in the Woods: A Memoirby Aspen Matis Aspen Matis' aufregendes wahres Abenteuer einer Wanderung von Mexiko nach Kanada – eine Coming-of-Age-Geschichte, eine Überlebensgeschichte und eine triumphale Geschichte über die Überwindung emotionaler Verwüstung. Bei Machu Picchu rechts abbiegen: Schritt für Schritt die verlorene Stadt wiederentdecken von Mark AdamsAdams' faszinierendem und witzigem Bericht über seine Reise durch einige der majestätischsten, historischsten und abgelegensten Landschaften der Welt. The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs von Tristan Gooley Gooley hat mehr als 850 Outdoor-Tipps zusammengestellt, die den Lesern die Augen für die verborgene Logik der Natur öffnen werden. Er teilt Techniken zur Vorhersage und Verfolgung und zum Wandern auf dem Land oder in der Stadt, entlang der Küste und bei Nacht. Hiking Through: One Man’s Journey to Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trailvon Paul StutzmanMit atemberaubenden Beschreibungen und humorvollen Anekdoten von seiner 2.176 Meilen langen Reise entlang des Appalachian Trail enthüllt Paul Stutzman, wie ihm das Eintauchen in die Natur und das Anfreunden mit anderen Wanderern geholfen hat, sich davon zu erholen ein herber Verlust. The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide von Andrew Skurka Diese kürzlich aktualisierte

zweite Ausgabe ist ein Show-and-Tell-Führer für Kleidung, Schuhe, Rucksäcke, Unterkünfte und mehr und enthält Tipps zur Fußpflege, Auswahl des Campingplatzes und Effizienz beim Wandern. Titelbild: Sonstiges .

#Ratgeber #Ausrüstung_Technik #Bücher #rund #ums #Wandergeschichten #Wandern #Wandern_Trekking #wunderbare

[pcttrailsidereader]

Bold Spirit

By Howard Shapiro

In 1897 a thirty-eight year old mother and her eighteen year old daughter set off from Spokane, Washington to walk to New York City. They were sparked by an opportunity to go the distance and if they did so in an allotted amount of time while meeting certain other conditions, they would earn 10,000 dollars. In modern equivalencies that would be close to a quarter of a million dollars. The walk documented in the book ‘Bold Spirit Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America’ by Linda Lawrence Hunt found its way to me unexpectedly. In reading it, I noticed that the thru hike experience or the section hike experience has much in common with Estby’s experience walking east. 

This story was nearly lost to history. By chance the author came across an eighth grader’s entry in a Washington State History Day Contest. This brief family story of a mother and daughter’s courageous journey caught the author’s attention enough to investigate deeper. Through this effort we learn a story that is both extraordinary and inspiring. Not unlike Peter Jenkin’s observations and experiences in his cross country trek in ‘A Walk Across America, a book popular in the late 1970′s and early 1980′s nearly one hundred years after Helga and her daughter Clara’s cross country trek. Their story stands out in other ways far beyond the physical journey. 

Helga and Clara were living in the Victorian age. In America this influence was profound. Women just didn’t do this sort of thing. Never mind the motivation to save their home and small farm from foreclosure. Not only did women not do this sort of thing but a mother would never leave her other eight children behind in the care of their father in a sole effort to save the family. Helga’s decision was considered immoral. Despite it all, Helga was confident she and Clara could walk the distance in the seven months allowed in the wager. She was convinced that she had "to make a stake some way.” as she did not want to lose the family farm, a seemingly safe haven for them all.  

With no more than eight pounds in their respective bundles they set off. Their supplies consisted of nothing more than a little food, a revolver (to deter highwaymen or wild animals), a red-pepper spray gun, compass, map, a few medical supplies, a lantern for night walking, and photographs of themselves to sell along the way. Neither brought a change of clothes but Helga did bring a notebook and pen for journaling and Clara brought along some sketching materials. Today, even the most ultra of ultra light hiker won’t have that little base weight. 

The sponsors apparently wanted to prove the physical endurance of women when it was far more fashionable for women to be dependent and weak. The two women would also have to agree to wear a bicycle skirt ( a shorter skirt than the more common touching the ground variety common at the time) or ‘reform costume’. The two women could only leave with five dollars apiece having to earn their way across the country. There would be no begging. They had to support themselves. The most challenging stipulation was they would need to reach New York within seven months. In late May of 1896 they set off. 

There were not National Scenic Trails until much later. These women followed the train lines east for most of their journey. Along the way they would encounter the occasional ‘trail angel’ who would give them a meal or a dry place to sleep. They often had to work in order to earn enough to keep going. All the while being very mindful of the deadline hanging over them. 

Today more and more women of all ages naturally find their way to the PCT, AT, CDT, and many, many other trails all over America. To meet a woman or women while hiking these places is not an unusual occurrence. In 1896, this was extraordinary to say the least. Helga and her daughter were quietly but consistently promoting the strength of women everywhere and were influenced by the suffrage movement of the time. 

Their story is compelling. While being denigrated in their Norwegian community they appear to be widely celebrated as they walk east. Few accounts exist except for those found in old newspapers. Sadly, the two women’s story was silenced for nearly one hundred years. Today, we roundly celebrate completing the PCT or other forms of physical endurance. Our friends and family hold us in high esteem. The acknowledgment can carry us on to some new challenge or not. 

This book tells a much different story of two women walking across fourteen states. They would meet mayors and governors as well as a newly elected president along the way. While more widely known figures like John Muir were being noticed at this same time, the Estby’s were more quietly taking a positive  place for women in America. To say they were changed from their experience is a kind of understatement given the fact that their experiences were nearly lost forever. Helga’s resilience gave her perspective and resources that would influence her for the rest of her life. Helga and her daughter ‘forged an identity that proved ordinary women could be physically strong, economically independent, and mentally tough.’ They illustrated qualities that didn’t get fuller notice until the likes of Cheryl Strayed and Heather Anderson came along to live their stories in a more modern context. 

I recommend this book. Not because it is about the PCT but because it is about  all of our stories. Just as important it serves notice that experiences in nature or non gender specific. Seeing and living in this world we call America is full of possibility as well as challenge. Helga and Clara Estby showed us that and we nearly missed it. 

‘Bold Spirit...’ Linda Lawrence Hunt, Anchor Books 2005

#Helga Estby #Victorian Age #John Muir #Cheryl Strayed #Heather Anderson

[lotstradamus]

Things This Infographic Does Not Include: pretty much all of the ‘info’ in ‘infographic’ because it’s ugly as hell this year 

my TOP 5* IN 2021 are:

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson 

Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar

*I didn’t expect this to be hard to narrow down, but it actually was! 

(pretty much all books by KJ Charles and Charlie Adhara were rereads, as well as The Bedlam Stacks, McGlue, The Kingdoms, Call Down the Hawk, and Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide.)

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#I missed last year because [gestures at 2020] so here you go #books #my year in books #gutted that I didn't get to finish the first volume of MDSZ and rate it a whopping 5 stars and number one on the list hahahaha

[biandlesbianliterature]

54 Bi and Lesbian Books Out in August!

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Can you believe more than 50 sapphic books come out this month alone? To read all of the descriptions, you can click through to the their individual listings, or check out the original Lesbrary post for all the descriptions in the same place.

Young Adult:

Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner

Eight Pieces of Silva by Patrice Lawrence (YA Mystery) 

Love Frankie by Jacqueline Wilson (Middle Grade) 

YA Fantasy:

Afterlove by Tanya Byrne

Court of Lions (Mirage #2) by Somaiya Daud

The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska 

Ironspark by C.M. McGuire 

YA & Middle Grade Comics: 

Goldie Vance: Larceny in La La Land created by Hope Larson, written by Jackie Ball, and illustrated by Mollie Rose

Beetle and the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne

Lumberjanes Volume 15: Birthday Smarty by Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, AnneMarie Rogers, and Maarta Laiho

Fiction:

Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola

Grey Dawn by Nyri A. Bakkalian

Summer of the Cicadas by Chelsea Catherine

All Men Want to Know by Nina Bouraoui, translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins

The Secret of You and Me by Melissa Lenhardt

Fidelity by Marco Missiroli, translated by Alex Valente

Summer by Ali Smith

little scratch by Rebecca Watson

A Saint From Texas by Edmund White (Historical Fiction)

The Lavender House Murder (Reissue) by Nikki Baker (Mystery)

The Seduction by Joanna Briscoe (Thriller) 

Fantasy:

The Vanished Queen by Lisbeth Campbell

Snow White and Her Huntress by Emma Dean

The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade #3) by Seth Dickinson

Destiny’s Choice (Destiny and Darkness #3) by Karen Frost

Glorious Day by Skye Kilaen

Science Fiction:

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

Seven Devils by Laura Lam and Elizabeth May

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Romance:

Hopeless Romantic by Georgia Beers

Spindrift by Anna Burke

Out on the Ice by Kelly Farmer

Hugs & Quiches by Candace Harper

Blades of Bluegrass by D. Jackson Leigh

Serenity by Jesse J. Thoma

Hopes and Dreams by Pj Trebelhorn

Everything We Never Wanted by Sienna Waters

Moon Fever by Ileandra Young (Paranormal Romance)

Comics & Manga:

Be Gay, Do Comics: Queer History, Memoir, and Satire from The Nib, edited by Mat Bors

Motor Crush, Volume 3 by Babs Tarr, Brenden Fletcher, and Cameron Stewart

I Love You So Much, I Hate You by yuni (Manga)

Bloom Into You: Regarding Saeki Sayaka, Vol. 2 by Hitoma Iruma & Nio Nakatani (Light Novel)

Nonfiction:

Tomboyland by Melissa Faliveno (Essays)

The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg (Memoir)

How to Stop Homophobic and Biphobic Bullying: A Practical Whole-School Approach by Jonathan Charlesworth

Lived Experience: Reflections of LGBTQ Life by Delphine Diallo

Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens by Leigh Finke

The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and the Art of Memoir by Alden Jones

Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies by Cait McKinney

Voices of LGBTQ+: A Conversation Starter for Understanding, Supporting, and Protecting Gay, Bi, Trans, and Queer People by Lynda Wolters

Support the Lesbrary on Patreon to get queer books in the mail throughout the year!

#queer books #lgbtq books #sapphic books #wlw books #lesbian books #new releases #2020 #long post

[gilmoregirlsrevival2016]

Season 1 Gilmore Girls References (Breakdown)

Yay! All the season 1 references have been posted. Before I start posting season 2, I wanted to post this little breakdown for your enjoyment :) It starts with some statistics and then below the cut is a list of all the specific references.

Overall amount of references in season 1: 605

Top 10 Most Common References: NSYNC (5), Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (5), Taylor Hanson (6), Leo Tolstoy (7), Lucky Spencer (7), Marcel Proust (7), PJ Harvey (7), The Bangles (8), The Donna Reed Show (8), William Shakespeare (10)

Which episodes had the most references: #1 is That Damn Donna Reed with 55 references. #2 is Christopher Returns with 44 references 

What characters made the most references (Only including characters/actors who were in the opening credits): Lorelai had the most with 237 references, Rory had second most with 118, and Lane had third most with 48.

First reference of the season: Jack Kerouac referenced by Lorelai 

Final reference of the season: Adolf Eichmann referenced by Michel 

  Movies/TV Shows/Episodes/Characters, Commercials, Cartoons/Cartoon Characters, Plays, Documentaries:

9 1/2 Weeks, Alex Stone, Alfalfa, An Affair To Remember, A Streetcar Named Desire, Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman, Avon Commercials, Bambi, Beethoven, Boogie Nights, Cabaret, Casablanca, Charlie's Angels, Charlie Brown cartoons, Christine, Cinderella, Citizen Kane, Daisy Duke, Damien Thorn, Dawson Leery, Donna Stone, Double Indemnity, Double Mint Commercials, Ethel Mertz, Everest, Felix Unger, Fiddler On The Roof, Footloose, Freaky Friday, Fred Mertz, Gaslight, General Hospital, G.I. Jane, Gone With The Wind, Grease, Hamlet, Heathers, Hee Haw, House On Haunted Hill, Ice Castles, I Love Lucy, Iron Chef, Ishtar, Jeff Stone, Joanie Loves Chachi, John Shaft, Lady And The Tramp, Life With Judy Garland: Me And My Shadows, Love Story, Lucky Spencer, Lucy Raises Chickens, Lucy Ricardo, Lucy Van Pelt, Macbeth,  Magnolia, Mary Stone, Mask, Midnight Express, Misery, Norman Bates, Officer Krupke, Oompa Loompas, Old Yeller, Oscar Madison, Out Of Africa, Patton, Pepe Le Pew, Peyton Place, Pink Ladies, Pinky Tuscadero, Ponyboy, Psycho, Queen Of Outer Space, Rapunzel, Richard III, Ricky Ricardo, Rocky Dennis, Romeo And Juliet, Rosemary's Baby, Sandy Olsson, Saved By The Bell, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Schroeder, Sesame Street, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Sex And The City, Sixteen Candles, Sleeping Beauty, Star Trek, Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalski, Stretch Cunningham, The Champ, The Comedy Of Errors, The Crucible, The Donna Reed Show, The Duke's Of Hazzard, The Fly, The Great Santini, The Little Match Girl, The Matrix, The Miracle Worker, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Outsiders, The Shining, The Sixth Sense, The View, The Waltons, The Way We Were, The Scarecrow, This Old House, V.I.P., Valley Of The Dolls, Vulcans, Wild Kingdom, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, Wheel Of Fortune, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, Working Girl, Yogi Bear, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown

Bands, Songs, CDs:

98 Degrees, Air Supply, Apple Venus Volume 2, Backstreet Boys, Bee Gees, Black Sabbath, Blue Man Group, Blur, Bon Jovi, Boston, Bush, Duran Duran, Everlong, Foo Fighters, Fugazi, Grandaddy, Hanson, I'm Too Sexy, Joy Division, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Kraftwerk, Like A Virgin, Livin La Vida Loca, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Man I Feel Like A Woman, Metallica, Money Money, My Ding-A-Ling, NSYNC, On The Good Ship Lollipop, Pink Moon, Queen, Rancid, Sergeant Pepper, Shake Your Bon Bon, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Sister Sledge, Smoke On The Water, Steely Dan, Suppertime, Tambourine Man, The B-52s, The Bangles, The Beatles, The Best Of Blondie, The Cranberries, The Cure, The Offspring, The Sugarplastic, The Wallflowers, The Velvet Underground, Walk Like An Egyptian, XTC, Ya Got Trouble, Young Marble Giants

Books/Book Characters, Comic Books/Comic Book Characters, Comic Strips: 

A Mencken Chrestomathy, A Tale Of Two Cities, Anna Karenina, Belle Watling, Boo Radley, Carrie, David Copperfield, Dick Tracy, Dopey (One of the seven dwarfs) Goofus And Gallant, Great Expectations, Grinch, Hannibal Lecter, Hansel And Gretel, Harry Potter (book as well as character referenced), Huckleberry Finn, Little Dorrit, Madame Bovary, Moby Dick, Mommie Dearest, Moose Mason, Nancy Drew, Out Of Africa, Pinocchio, Swann's Way, The Amityville Horror, The Art Of Fiction, The Bell Jar, The Grapes Of Wrath, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The Lost Weekend, The Metamorphosis, The Portable Dorothy Parker, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath, The Witch Tree Symbol, There's A Certain Slant Of Light, Tuesdays With Morrie, War And Peace, Wonder Woman

Public Figures:

Adolf Eichmann, Alfred Hitchcock, Angelina Jolie, Anna Nicole Smith, Annie Oakley, Antonio Banderas, Arthur Miller, Artie Shaw, Barbara Hutton, Barbara Stanwyck, Barbra Streisand, Beck, Ben Jonson, Benito Mussolini, Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Crudup, Bob Barker, Brad Pitt, Britney Spears, Catherine The Great, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Charles I, Charles Dickens, Charles Manson, Charlie Parker, Charlotte Bronte, Charlton Heston, Charo, Cher, Cheryl Ladd, Chris Penn, Christiane Amanpour, Christopher Marlowe, Chuck Berry, Claudine Longet, Cleopatra, Cokie Roberts, Courtney Love, Dalai Lama, Damon Albarn, Dante Alighieri, David Mamet, Donna Reed, Edith Wharton, Edna O'Brien, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Webber, Elle Macpherson, Elsa Klensch, Elvis, Emeril Lagasse, Emily Dickinson, Emily Post, Eminem, Emma Goldman, Errol Flynn, Fabio, Farrah Fawcett, Fawn Hall, Flo Jo, Francis Bacon, Frank Sinatra, Franz Kafka, Fred MacMurray, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gene Hackman, Gene Wilder, George Clooney, George Sand, George W. Bush, Harry Houdini, Harvey Fierstein, Henny Youngman, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Henry VIII, Herman Melville, Homer, Honore De Balzac, Howard Cosell, Hugh Grant, Hunter Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Jaclyn Smith, James Dean, Jane Austen, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Tandy, Jim Carey, Jim Morrison, Jimmy Hoffa, Joan Of Arc, Joan Rivers, Jocelyn Wildenstein, Joel Grey, John Cage, John Gardner, John Muir, John Paul II, John Webster, Johnny Cash, Johnny Depp, Joseph Merrick AKA Elephant Man, Judy Blume, Judy Garland, Julian Lennon, Justin Timberlake, Karen Blixen AKA Isak Dinesen, Kate Jackson, Kathy Bates, Kevin Bacon, Kreskin, Lee Harvey Oswald, Leo Tolstoy, Leopold and Loeb, Lewis Carroll, Linda McCartney, Liz Phair, Liza Minnelli, Lou Reed, M Night Shyamalan, Macy Gray, Madonna, Marcel Marceau, Marcel Proust, Margot Kidder, Marie Antoinette, Marie Curie, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Twain, Mark Wahlberg, Marlin Perkins, Martha Stewart, Martha Washington, Martin Luther, Mary Kay Letourneau, Maurice Chevalier, Melissa Rivers, Meryl Streep, Michael Crichton, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Miguel De Cervantes, Miss Manners, Mozart, Nancy Kerrigan, Nancy Walker, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, Nico, Oliver North, Oprah Winfrey, Oscar Levant, Pat Benatar, Paul McCartney, Peter III Of Russia, Peter Frampton, Philip Glass, PJ Harvey, Prince, Queen Elizabeth I, Regis, Richard Simmons, Rick James, Ricky Martin, Robert Duvall, Robert Redford, Robert Smith, Robin Leach, Rosie O'Donnell, Ru Paul, Ruth Gordon, Samuel Barber, Sarah Duchess Of York, Sean Lennon, Sean Penn, Shania Twain, Shelley Hack, Sigmund Freud, Squeaky Fromme, Stephen King, Steven Tyler, Susan Faludi, Susanna Hoffs, Tanya Roberts, Taylor Hanson, Theodore Kaczynski AKA The Unabomber, The Kennedy Family, Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, and Gummo Marx AKA The Marx Brothers, Venus and Serena Williams (The reference was "The Williams Sisters"),Thelonious Monk, Tiger Woods, Tito Puente, Tom Waits, Tony Randall, Tonya Harding, Vaclav Havel, Vanna White, Vivien Leigh, Walt Whitman, William Shakespeare, William Shatner, Yoko Ono, Zsa Zsa Gabor

Misc:

Camelot, Chernobyl Disaster, Cone Of Silence, Hindenburg Disaster, Iran-Contra Affair, Paul Bunyan, The Menendez Murders, Tribbles, Vulcan Death Grip, Whoville, Winchester Mystery House

#gilmore girls #gilmore girls references #season 1 references #reference breakdown #nsync #willy wonka & the chocolate factory #taylor hanson #leo tolstoy #lucky spencer #marcel proust #pj harvey #the bangles #the donna reed show #william shakespeare #lorelai gilmore #rory gilmore #michel gerard #lane kim #lane kim van gerbig #jack kerouac #lauren graham #alexis bledel #keiko agena #yanic truesdale

[ovymedia]

Quotes to remind you to take adventures in your life

When was the last time you went on an adventure? Perhaps these quotes will help jog your memory.

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

“When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.” – A.A. Milne

“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – J.R.R. Tolkein

“I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” – Eric Roth

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

“Oh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” – Ernest Hemingway

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau

“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T.S. Eliot

“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” – T.E. Lawrence

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

“You are not in the mountains. The mountains are in you.” – John Muir

“I’ve realized that at the top of the mountain, there’s another mountain.” – Andrew Garfield

“How wild it was, to let it be.” – Cheryl Strayed

“Stop staring at mountains. Climb them instead, yes, it’s a harder process but it will lead you to a better view.” – Anonymous

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”” – Sylvia Plath

“The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.” – Jeanne Moreau

“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more that what we could learn from books.” – John Lubbock

“The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.” – Casey Neistat

“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary

For more adventure-packed content, check out www.ovymedia.com.

#qoutes #remind #adventures #life #help #memory #worthwhile #excitement #dangerous #books #ebooks

[therealcrimediary]

Price: [price_with_discount] (as of [price_update_date] - Details) [ad_1] 36 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder and Deception Readers Love This Series - Over 7,000 Five-Star Ratings on Amazon & Goodreads Three Book Collection: Volumes 7, 8, and 9 of the True Crime Case Histories Series (2022) *** This series can be read in any order ***If you’re a fan of true crime, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the big-name cases: Ted Bundy, BTK, David Berkowitz, Christopher Watts, Diane Downs, Casey Anthony, Jeffrey Dahmer, Jodi Arias, Ed Gein, etc. The list of well-known, notorious cases throughout history is seemingly endless. Books, websites, podcasts, streaming television series, and magazines are filled with their abhorrent tales of mayhem. They’re some of the most foul killers the world has ever known. In my books, I do my best to find stories you may not have heard of. To do this, I count on my readers to send me stories that may have gone forgotten and aren't found all over the internet. Inside, you'll find 36 True Crime stories from the 100 years. Many of which you may never have heard of. You'll read the story of five-year-old Stephanie Hebert, who walked only three houses down her quiet suburban sidewalk and disappeared forever. Her case went cold for forty years before other children from her neighborhood came forward in their adulthood with information leading to the killer. There’s the story of the sadistic mother who viewed her children only as the spawn of their demon father, torturing them for their entire short lives. You’ll also read of the deranged husband and wife team who started their own cult and made it their life’s mission to rid the world of witches. Another story tells the disheartening tale of a toddler’s skeleton found in a suitcase on the side of the road. Motorcyclists discovered her mother’s skeleton more than 600 miles away. Five years had passed, with no one even realizing they were missing. There’s also the heartbreaking story of a single mom, drowning in debt, who did the unthinkable for insurance money. Many of the stories in this book feature women killers, three of whom took the time to meticulously dismember their victims—a task that can take great strength. Another woman manipulated her two teenage boys into killing for her. Plus many more disturbing stories. The stories in this volume are shocking and exhibit human behavior at its absolute worst. Pure evil. However, these things really happen in the world. We may never understand what goes on in a killer’s mind, but at least we can be better informed. Included in this volume: Stephen McDaniel, Lauren Giddings, Leonard Tyburksi, Dorothy Tyburksi, Cheryl Knuckle, Greg Rowe, Ellen Boehm, Bevan Spencer von Einem, Alan Barnes, Neil Muir, Peter Stogneff, Richard Kelvin, Omaima Nelson, Betty Freiberg, Kimberly Hricko, Steven Hricko, Hilma Marie Witte, Sky McDonough, Leanna Walker, Carol Carlson, Daniel Carlson, Gerard John Schaefer, Evans Ganthier, Rebecca Koster, Gary Vintner, Mikhail Drachev, Chris Andrews, Dennis Tsoukanov, Sean Southland, Konstantin Simberg, Jason Massey, Brian King, Christina Benjamin, Sheila Keen, Debbie Warren, Michael Warren, Marlene Ahrens, Charles Albright, Travis Lewis, Martha McKay, Grant Amato, Cody Amato, Chad Amato, Margaret Amato, Robert Willy Pickton, Marty Dill, Heather Teague, Joe Ball, Jared Chance, Ashley Young, Theresa Knorr, Robert Knorr, William Knorr, Jason Vendrick Franklin, Stephanie Hebert, John Joubert, Danny Jo Eberle, Christopher Walden, Ricky Stetson, Anna Maria Cardona, Lazaro Figueroa, Charles Schmid, Jeremy Gipson, Jessica Thornsberry, Justina Morley, Domenic Coia, Nicholas Coia, Eddie Batzig, Jason Sweeney, Angela Stoltd, Jimmy Sheaffer, Vincent Tabak, Joanna Yeates, Edmund Arne Matthews, Lisa Ann Mather, Daniel Holdom, Karlie Pearce-Stevenson, Khandalyce Pearce-Stevenson, James Carson, Michael Bear, Suzan Bear, Susan Barnes Carson From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ iDigital Group (June 20, 2022) Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 418 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1956566295 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1956566291 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.47 pounds Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.05 x 9 inches [ad_2]

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#blog #creativity #fiction #living #writers block

[troisfillesetunlivre]

Quand Mari, une jeune Instagrammeuse au sommet de la célébrité, abandonne tous les faux-semblant en même temps que les réseaux sociaux, rien ne l'avait préparé pour cette aventure. Pour rendre hommage à sa cousine décédée lors d'une randonnée, Mari décide de faire à sa place le célèbre John Muir Trail. Ce chemin d'apprentissage et de réconciliation n'est pas sans rappeler bien sûr la célèbre biographie "Wild" de Cheryl Strayed. Un roman pour ado très sympa! . . . . #danstespas#jessikirby #johnmuirtrail #randonnée #instagram #littérature #littératureado #bookstagram #book #wild #cherylstrayed https://www.instagram.com/p/B6_DUmwq03U/?igshid=g97hqi9zkaht

#danstespas #jessikirby #johnmuirtrail #randonnée #instagram #littérature #littératureado #bookstagram #book #wild #cherylstrayed

[kiraxcute]

Kristin Smart

On the night she disappeared, Smart attended a birthday party for a fellow student, which fell on Memorial Day weekend. At approximately 2:00 a.m. on May 25, 1996, she was found passed out on a neighbor's lawn by two fellow students, Cheryl Anderson and Tim Davis, who both had just left the party.

They decided to walk her back to her nearby dormitory. Another student from the party, Paul Flores, joined their group and offered to help the two return Smart to her dorm room safely. 

He did not know any of the three. 

Davis departed the group first since he lived off campus and had driven to the party. Anderson was the second to depart the group after she told Flores that he could walk Smart back to her dorm, since he lived closer.

Flores stated to police that he walked Smart as far as his dormitory, Santa Lucia Hall, and then allowed her to walk back to her Muir Hall dorm by herself. 

Kristin was never seen again after that.

Her disappearance remains an unsolved case, although compelling evidence was discovered that points to Paul Flores knowing exactly what happened to her. 

Although no body ever was discovered, Smart’s bloody earring was found by a tenant at the former residence of Paul Flores’s mother. This earring has since mysteriously disappeared from police custody. 

A neighbor allegedly saw Paul and an unknown man (possibly his father or a friend) digging up, burying something, and pouring concrete on top of it. 

Police actively refused to dig around the property.

Even to drill through the concrete into the soil to test for human remains.

Kristin was declared legally deceased in 2002.

She would have been 36.

There was so much evidence linking her disappearance to Paul, and police just protected him.

Please don't let this story die. 

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#true crime

[pcttrailsidereader]

Dangers of Hiking the PCT Loom as the 2021 Season Approaches

This is an excerpt of a story from the San Francisco Chronicle that appeared in the February 21st issue.  I do find that there are increasing numbers of hikers populating the PCT whose backpacking and wilderness experience is very thin while the dangers remain the same (perhaps even greater with the addition of forest fire).

By Gregory Thomas

As the spring hiking season approaches, veterans of California’s trail community are urging long-distance backpackers to take extra precautions to avoid catastrophe. Looming over the season is the unceasing threat of the coronavirus as well as a tragic snow-related death last year on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Trail authorities are chiefly concerned that inexperienced hikers, seduced by the prospect of a life-changing adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) and the natural beauty of the John Muir Trail (JMT), may be venturing unprepared into dangerous situations in the remote wilderness.

Whereas older generations of outdoors enthusiasts likely built their skills and experience under the guidance of seasoned mentors, younger hikers seem prone to digging for trail expertise in internet blogs and social media. Hundreds of thousands of through-hikers coalesce around hubs on Facebook to discuss strategy and gear. But the vibe of comment threads can turn macho or hostile, and the information exchanged isn’t always sound.

“A lot of the voices (in online trail groups) are great, but some have been historically dismissive of safety,” said Jack Haskel, trail information manager at the Pacific Crest Trail Association, which issues long-distance permits to PCT hikers on behalf of the U.S. Forest Service. “Something we’ve been talking about as a long-distance hiking community for years now is, how do we build a community of alumni who stick around and offer their insights to new generations of hikers?”

Through-hiking the 2,660-mile PCT, which spans mountain ranges between Mexico and Canada, is a six-month commitment to self-sufficiency in the woods. The highly popular JMT, which extends from Yosemite Valley 217 miles south to Mount Whitney, overlaps with hazardous sections of the PCT in the High Sierra.

“This is not a beginner experience, but a lot of people hike the JMT as their first through-hike,” said Inga Aksamit, of Sonoma, who administers several JMT groups on Facebook. She says JMT permits, which become available online each morning for spring and summer hiking dates, are getting snapped up within a minute or two. “That’s really concerning to me,” she said.

The two trails, once the byways of fringe dirtbaggers, now draw tens of thousands of nature lovers to California’s mountains each year. Many aspire to follow in the footsteps of Cheryl Strayed, whose 2012 hiking memoir, “Wild,” became a best-seller and popular film, or re-create the spectacular nature photos of their favorite Instagram influencers.

Last year, the onset of the coronavirus pandemic prompted the Forest Service to stop issuing long-distance PCT permits partway through the season. But many hikers proceeded anyway, sparking vitriolic debate and shaming in the online groups where hikers congregate. This year, permits are back on — the trail association anticipates a return to pre-pandemic levels of about 7,900 permits even as international hikers are expected to stay home.

The potential for hikers to carry the virus into the 30-some-odd remote mountain towns strung along the PCT users is a theme of many social media discussions this year.

“It’s not just the risk in the wilderness this year,” Haskel said. “We’re worried about our trail communities.”

No one keeps precise statistics on trail deaths, injuries and rescues, but there have been at least 15 fatalities on the PCT since the early 1980s. The top causes are drownings at river-crossings and falls. In 2019, a 67-year-old man hiking alone died on the trail near Mather Pass after apparently slipping on a small patch of ice and hitting his head on a rock.

June is regarded as the most treacherous month to be on the trails. That’s typically the peak of seasonal snowmelt in the High Sierra, when summer’s heat flushes torrents of water through alpine streambeds that hikers must ford. Two female through-hikers drowned in Sierra river crossings in July 2017 following a winter of unusually high snowfall.

With so much new interest in long-distance treks, administrators like Aksamit feel more compelled to issue words of warning.

“I sound the alarm on posts that we get on June entries to caution solo hikers against tackling stream crossings on their own,” Aksamit said. “People think we’re fear-mongers sometimes, but a lot of people just don’t know what they’re getting into.”

An unlikely mentor has emerged this year. Doug Laher, a medical association executive from Fort Worth, Texas, has never set foot on the PCT or JMT. But last year, 11 days into his PCT adventure, Laher’s 22-year-old son, Trevor, slipped on an icy slope in the San Jacinto Mountains, near Palm Springs, and fell to his death.

The tragedy rippled through the trail community, in part because Trevor was a strong young man who appeared to be prepared for the hazards of high-mountain hiking. But also because Doug Laher has since accumulated a deep knowledge of trail dangers and spoken about his son’s death in painful detail on the culture’s niche podcasts and online forums.

“Most days I drift, merely existing in a world when everyone else is living,” Laher wrote. “But this helps: the idea that Trevor’s death didn’t happen in vain. There must be something good that rises from our tragedy.”

Trevor’s fateful trek appears to be sinking in as a cautionary tale. Doug Laher says he has received hundreds, if not thousands, of emails and Facebook comments from grateful hikers.

One came from Claire Stam, 24, of Jackson, Wyo., who hiked most of the PCT last year.

Trevor Laher’s death occurred two months before Stam’s hike began, and she had read an early account of the episode. After five months on the trail, Stam and her partner had put the bulk of the trek behind them when they encountered deep snow in Washington’s Cascade Range, 30 miles shy of the trail’s end at the Canadian border. While standing in a blizzard and considering whether to push on, Trevor’s story flashed into her mind. She and her partner decided to call off their hike and go home.

“I was so devastated,” Stam said. “Part of me thought I could do it if I really focused. But then I thought, Trevor probably thought the same thing. I knew that if he had a second chance, he would have made the decision that I made.”

Doug Laher’s message to through-hikers is straightforward: Do your research, carry appropriate gear and know how to use it, read the trail conditions and be prepared to abandon your hike. But to hikers who have in many cases dreamed about the PCT for years and rearranged their lives for the trek, turning away from a rushing river or snowy ridge can feel like chickening out.

“Sometimes through-hikers don’t know where to distinguish the line between discomfort and danger,” Stam said.

Still, Doug Laher intends to continue reaching out to hikers. “I’ve found my new purpose in life,” he said. “If I can influence a hiker’s decisions to be more safe, that’s a win.”

#dangers #death

[tabloidtoc]

Closer, July 15

Cover: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis -- fame, feuds and friendship -- their kids tell all 

Page 1: Contents 

Page 2: The Big Picture -- Bob Dylan and Sonny and Cher in 1965 

Page 4: Grace Kelly -- her letters reveal a love triangle between then-fiance Oleg Cassini and co-star Bing Crosby 

Page 5: Rare photos from the hit film Jaws finally published, The Pointer Sisters’ new exhibit at the Hollywood Museum 

Page 6: Hellos & Goodbyes 

Page 8: Picture Perfect -- Still Rockin’ -- Smokey Robinson 

Page 9: Mick Jagger, Patti Labelle, Jon Bon Jovi 

Page 10: Birthday girl Lara Spencer with Good Morning America co-hosts Ginger Zee and Amy Robach and Robin Roberts and David Muir, Savannah Guthrie and Jenna Bush Hager, Bernadette Peters and a rescue dog 

Page 12: James Corden 

Page 13: Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern, Jane Lynch, Ellie Kemper 

Page 14: Chrissy Teigen and daughter Luna 

Page 15: Eva Longoria and son Santiago 

Page 16: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette -- new details of their final days 

Page 18: Cover Story -- Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis -- fame, feuds and friendship

Page 22: Stars’ Best Beach Bodies -- Brooke Shields, Elizabeth Hurley, Rob Lowe

Page 23: Christie Brinkley, Jane Seymour, Susan Lucci, Goldie Hawn 

Page 24: Judy Dench --despite a chronic health issue she is determined to live a full and happy life

Page 27: Spot the Difference -- Queen Elizabeth

Page 29: Horoscopes -- Cancer Sofia Vergara 

Page 30: Entertainment -- Jeff Foxworthy on Bring the Funny, David Hasselhoff on Battle of the 80s Supercars, In the Spotlight -- Lesley Manville 

Page 32: Movies -- Jake Gyllenhaal on Spider-Man: Far From Home

Page 33: Music -- Jackson Browne on Running on Empty 

Page 34: Television 

Page 36: Great Escape -- Genie Francis on Croatia 

Page 40: 5 Ways to Survive the Heat

Page 42: Whatever Happened to the Cast of The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd -- Blair Brown, William Converse-Roberts, Richard Lawson, David Strathairn, Maureen Anderman 

Page 43: It Happened This Week 

Page 44: Pam Tillis -- a life of love and music 

Page 48: Memories of Forrest Gump on its 25th anniversary 

Page 50: Shelley Winters had a passion for life 

Page 54: The style of Brooke Shields 

Page 58: My Life in 10 Pictures -- Cheryl Ladd 

Page 60: Flashback -- Singers wearing capes on Barbra Streisand in 1967 and Avril Lavigne now, lemonade stands on The Waltons in 1977 and by Selma Blair now, tie-dyed shirts on Joe Cocker in 1969 and Willow Smith now, West Side Story in 1961 with Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer and with Rachel Zegler and Ansel Elgort now 

#tabloid #dean martin #jerry lewis