"In the early 1970s, Ron Strickland--a young, novice hiker with an audacious idea--launched a campaign to link Glacier National Park's alpine meadows and the Pacific Ocean with a new, 1,200-mile footpath across three national parks and seven national forests. He--along with countless other volunteers--lobbied landowners, raised money, and dug dirt until, in 2009, Congress added the Pacific Northwest Trail to the National Trails System.
In "Pathfinder, " Strickland describes the process of untangling brush and bureaucracy to establish one of the world's most beautiful trails. He...
"In the early 1970s, Ron Strickland--a young, novice hiker with an audacious idea--launched a campaign to link Glacier National Park's alpine meadows ...
