Hiking from Home - by Juliana Chauncey (Paperback)

About the Book

Hiking From Home: A Long-Distance Hiking Guide for Family and Friends is an informative guide for those supporting a long-distance hiker. It explains the basics of long-distance hiking, addresses safety concerns, outlines ways to stay in touch and remain supportive, and includes quotes from previous hikers and supporters.

Book Synopsis

Hiking From Home: A Long-Distance Hiking Guide for Family and Friends is an informative guide for those supporting a long-distance hiker. It explains the basics of long-distance hiking as well as logistics, such as what gear is carried, how hikers eat, where they sleep, and how they know where to go.
This supportive guide addresses safety concerns from extreme weather conditions to illnesses and injuries, while teaching the reader about the culture and community surrounding our long-distance trails. Hiking From Home outlines ways to stay in touch and eases concerns that arise when communication is lacking. This guide provides useful suggestions on how to remain supportive from before the hike begins to long after it is over, with additional resources included for significant others who are in a relationship with the hiker. Throughout the book quotes from previous hikers and supporters keep the reader engaged, with opinions, tips, and suggestions from perspectives of all ages and backgrounds.
Hiking From Home: A Long-Distance Hiking Guide for Family and Friends is an essential read for anyone who wants to better understand long-distance hiking.

Review Quotes

"I've read enough books written by long-distance hikers to know what's missing in that literary world. Juliana Chauncey has masterfully filled a huge void with her new book "Hiking from Home," offering advice, perspective, and words of encouragement to those back home who love, support, and miss their loved one who've answered the call of the trail. This in-depth instruction manual on long-distance communication should be required reading for both, the traveling hiker, AND the ones they've left behind. Written from the perspective of an experienced thru-hiker with thousands of miles behind her, "Hiking from Home" thoughtfully addresses the stress and anxiety that family members experience in their hiker's absence and provides a roadmap for dealing with the pitfalls of maintaining the sanity, patience, and understanding that both parties are going to need to successfully complete their trek." Kevin E. Newsome