When Cheryl Strayed released Wild, a book detailing her life-changing experience hiking the Pacific Crest Trial in 1995, she ...

Cheryl Strayed ... that so many people took from Wild the affirmation that they too can do it. AT:I feel like you’re credited with making the Pacific Crest Trail popular today.

Strayed’s purple-prose memoir, Wild, has received widespread acclaim ... impulsive decision to hike over 1,000 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail—alone—four years after losing her mother.