Rookies in the Wild

A journey into the wilderness will reconstitute a lost soul. At least that's the theory. But when a newly unemployed dad decides to take his teenage son on a life-affirming backpacking trip along the Pacific Crest Trail, he unleashes deep-rooted fears of the unknown. Cougars, unreadable maps, Bigfoot, and iliotibial syndrome are co-conspirators in this comic misadventure set in the Trinity Alps Wilderness of northern California. "The backpacking bible for those who don't backpack."