A Thru-Hiker's Heart, Tales of the Pacific Crest Trail
by Ray Echols
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Author: Ray EcholsIllustrator: Ray Echols
Editor: Alice Tulloch
Illustrator: color photographs
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2009-03-01
ISBN: 0981472206
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Tuolumne Press
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Book Review: Sadly Ray Echols has died on the trail he loved
Summary: 5 Stars
From the Arrowhead Courier News Jan 4 2011
Hiker Killed On Pacific Crest Trail
By Michael P. Neufeld
At 6:09 a.m. last Monday, Ray Echols and his wife, Alice, began hiking along the Pacific Crest Trail behind Lake Arrowhead.
Three hours later, Wendell Ray Echols apparently slipped and fell to his death down a 200-foot embankment. His body had to be airlifted to the airfield at The Lost Ranch (formerly Squints Ranch) by the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department helicopter.
The Mendocino couple were experienced hikers and were crossing sections of the San Bernardino National Forest on the scenic trail that runs from Mexico to Canada, zigzagging through California, Oregon and Washington.
Alice Echols told deputies Miguel Placencia and Gregg Carpenter she was hiking about 20 yards behind her husband when he went around a corner and disappeared.
"I called him on his cell phone," Mrs. Echols stated, "and I heard it ring about 15 feet down the steep mountainside. My husband was nowhere to be seen."
A few minutes after Echols disappeared, Terry Thompson from San Diego came down the trail with a hiker partner and heard Mrs. Echols' calls for assistance.
"She had left her backpack on the trail with a note, and she was attempting to go down the slope to try and locate her husband," Thompson explained. "She made motions of distress so I immediately summoned help on my satellite telephone and deputies were dispatched to the scene.
"A friend and I assisted her back to the trail and then took another route down the hillside and discovered Mr. Echols' lifeless body at the bottom of the canyon. We brought Mrs. Echols down to her husband and waited until the Sheriff's helicopter arrived with a physician, who certified the death.
"They were both excellent hikers and this accident is very surprising," Thompson added.
Summary of A Thru-Hiker's Heart, Tales of the Pacific Crest Trail
The Pacific Crest Trail connects the mountain tops that run 2,650-miles from Mexico to Canada at the edge of a continent. A Thru-Hiker's Heart tells the tales of the five month trip that some consider more challenging and life-changing than climbing Mount Everest. But this is not the typical book about hiking--miles, bugs and blisters. In a vivid and insightful voice, Ray Echols tell us the stories of encounters with hikers and town folk, and encounters with the solitude of the soul. Here are not only rattlesnakes, mountain lions and lightning strikes, but exhilaration and trail magic. In the eyes of other hikers and everday people along the trail, Ray glimpses our human courage and kindness. These are the reasons we follow our dreams to heights we never imagined.Sports Books
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