Hike to Alive

Hike to Alive  strives to capture and share a childhood stricken with trauma, transforming wounded brokenness by physical and sexual abuse into a lifetime healing journey. This is an extraordinary 10-year section hike on the 2090-mile Appalachian Trail running from Maine to Georgia. Seeds of this journey began when the author was 3, and his father lifted him to the bedroom window in the dark of night and said: "Look at the full moon reflection on the water. See the sturgeon jump out of