Cascade Summer : My Adventure on Oregon's Pacific Crest Trail
(Book)

Bob Welch is the author of fifteen books including resolve and 52 little Lessons from It's a Wonderful Life. As a columnist at the register-guard in Eugene Oregon ha has been honored with first place awards twice by the National Society of Newspaper Publishers Association. Welch is the founder of the Beachside Writers Workshop in Yachats, He and his wife Sally live in Eugene.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-245).

Cascade Summer is the story of Bob Welch's 2011 attempt, along with his brother-in-law, to hike the length of Oregon's mountainous spine. To reconnect with his past and to better understand 19th century Cascade Range advocate John Waldo, the state's answer to California naturalist John Muir. Despite great expectations, near trail's end Welch finds himself facing an unlikely challenge. Laughs. Blisters. And new friends from literally around the world-his PCT adventure offered it all. But he never foresaw its bittersweet ending. From the back cover