Letters from the Trail

About the Book

Letters from the trail: Excerpts from a collection of letters written by a 50+ year old woman from Maine and Maryland as she pursued a life goal of hiking the entire 2,170+ miles on the Appalachian Trail.

This book is filled with information people always ask about hiking the AT, including where she slept, what she ate, how she stayed safe, how she planned her hike, what she carried for equipment. This is an inspirational book for those who want to hike, an information book for the questions people ask, and a tribute to life in the outdoors- - -all rolled into one.

About the Author

Peggy Alden Stout AKA Blueberry As a life long writer, Peggy Alden Stout, is dedicated to writing in order to record all there is in her life. A former English teacher, she taught students how to write for a number of years. In her personal life, she is a daily journal writer and a constant letter writer. From 2000-2010 she hiked the whole of the Appalachian trail as a long distance section hiker. Excerpts from the letters she wrote to family and friends while she was on the trail are now compiled into Letters from the Trail. She and her husband enjoy life in rural Maryland and on a lake in Maine.