Boots on Fire

In BOOTS ON FIRE, lifelong trailster and guidebook author, Ken Wilcox, sums up five decades of adventuring across the wildlands of North America. Stories range from whimsical to inspiring, as he covers ground from Alaska to Mexico, across the deserts, into the red rock canyons, and aloft to some of the most beautiful summits of the Cascades, Olympics, Sierras, Rockies and Appalachian Mountains. Amid the storms, bears, rattlesnakes, gravity, thrills, disappointments and the usual hazards of having way too much fun, he reminds us go lightly and do all we can to save our planet's ever-shrinking wildlands.