End to Ending

<p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>End to Ending</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is both a raw first-hand account and a time-traveling reflection-a vivid memoir written by a young man who walked the entire </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Appalachian Trail</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> in the 1990s and now reissued with the clarity and insight of three decades gone by.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>At nineteen Tanner Critz heard whispers of a footpath stretching from Georgia to Maine. At twenty-one he shouldered a heavy pack said goodbye to his father at the trailhead and stepped into a world where hunger replaced comfort and solitude peeled away everything but the truth. The original manuscript-penned soon after his 1995 thru-hike-captures that experience with the voice of someone still buzzing from the wild. It tells of firelight conversations and snowbound missteps; of trail magic and tumult; of Vikings with trail names and minds cracking open in the mountains; of becoming one with the woods not just walking through them.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now thirty years later Critz returns to that trail-not with his boots but with the reflective lens of age fatherhood and loss. This anniversary edition includes new chapters and commentary that deepen the meaning of the original journey. He watches his sons reach the ages he was then. He stands at the mirror of time no longer the boy who hiked into the forest-but the man who walked out.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>End to Ending</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a book for anyone who has stepped into the unknown in search of themselves or who wonders what becomes of the seeker when the trail ends. Poetic gritty and soul-searching it reminds us that some journeys don't stop when the walking does-they echo for a lifetime.</span></p><p></p>