Outside Reading-Amanda Ewen

Outside Reading- Awol on the Appalachian Trail-Chapter 1

            While reading this chapter I learned a lot more about hiking the Appalachian then I did before.  I think it was so easy for me to grasp what he was saying because of the way he chose to write the book.  It was written in the form of a story and not a journal and that helped.  I never realized how much you had to really prepare for the hike ahead of time.  David Miller trained on a treadmill for a year before he started the trail and he said it definitely did not prepare him for the trail.  Another thing I found interesting was that he said that trail names are used because when walking the trail you do it to escape so using your real name would just remind you of your real life.  I never thought of a trail name in those terms.