When Cheryl Strayed released Wild, a book detailing her life-changing experience hiking the Pacific Crest Trial in 1995, she ...

Cheryl Strayed:I knew in my own life that ... AT:I feel like you’re credited with making the Pacific Crest Trail popular today. CS:When I first started doing events for the book I would often ...

Strayed’s purple-prose memoir ... The book chronicles her impulsive decision to hike over 1,000 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail—alone—four years after losing her mother.

this segment is part of the larger Pacific Crest Trail, a 2,650-mile journey that was already well-known among hikers before Cheryl Strayed's memoir "Wild" made it a household name. Be aware that ...