Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous thousand-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.

The ten thousand things. The ten thousand things ; Splitting ; Hunching in a remotely upright position -- Tracks. The Pacific Crest Trail, volume I : California ; Tracks ; A bull in both directions ; The only girl in the woods -- Range of light. Corvidology ; Staying found ; Range of light -- Wild. The lou out of lou ; This far ; The accumulation of trees ; Wild -- Box of rain. Box of rain ; Mazama ; Into a primal gear ; Queen of the PCT ; The dream of a common language -- Books burned on the PCT.