Book description
Beginning when their children were one and three years old - barely old enough to walk across their living room rug - Cindy Ross and her husband spent five extraordinary summers hiking the length of the 3,100-mile Continental Divide Trail from Canada to Mexico. Ross undertook the challenge to teach…
Why read it?
1 author picked Scraping Heaven as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A friend gave me a copy of this book when my kids were small, and it was my first indication that there is life after kids, my first glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. Over the course of the book and several years of their lives, Ross, her husband, and their two kids hiked the Continental Divide Trail, beginning with the Colorado Trail portion when the kids were one and three years old.
Reading this book planted the first seed in my mind that, one day, my husband and I would revisit the Colorado Trail, which we’d…
From Andrea's list on women in the wild.
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