[pct-l] PCT Movies, Podcasts, Books, etc...

[Austin Williams]

Thank you.  That was an awesome contribution!


On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Sean 'Miner' Nordeen <
sean at lifesadventures.net> wrote:

> My PCT DVD collection includes in rank from best to worse:
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> All the class DVDs from 2002-2008 (2009 won't be available until April).
>  You can ask here for someone to copy them or you can download them with bit
> torrent at http://thepiratebay.org/user/brickster3072/
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> The funny and entraining Walk series by Squatch.  Buy all 4 and save $$$.
>  And for a limited time only, he'll also include a personalized note
> thanking you for your wise purchase.  ;-)
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> Walking the West - A very good documentary following 2 hikers (1 drops out
> 60miles from the end) on their '97 thru-hike; includes their pre-hike
> preperations.  You can watch a low quality version on YouTube in 2 parts.
>  It was well worth buying.
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> Resouled on the PCT - Another documentary following 1 hiker's journey north
> in 2002 and those he meets.  Not as good as Walking the West, but still very
> enjoyable.  However, the website for this one disappeared last year so I
> don't know if you can still buy it.
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> Walking the West with Freedom - kind of like a music video format with some
> commentary as LionKing walks north.  He fails to finish at the end, but it
> has some awesome footage of trying to hike in the the big storms that hit
> mid-october in 2006 and pretty much drove everyone off trail.  Years like
> that are why most thu-hikers don't like to push their luck finishing any
> latter then that.
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> In terms of book reading, there are several books out there, but I've only
> read a few.
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> My favorite is the self-published Dancing with Marmots which is about a New
> Zealander firefighter's 1990 thru-hike with an insane packweight (by todays
> standards not back then).
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> Another one is Zero Days about a family with a 10year old girl who hikes
> the trail.
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> Cactus Eaters is another.  If you serach on Amazon, you can find several
> titles.
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> -Sean "Miner" Nordeen
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