Traveling with Baggage: A Guide for the Hesitant Hiker

This is your book of courage. Does driving long distance to places unknown make you nervous? Have you never set foot in the woods, but always wondered what it would be like? Do creepy, crawly things or wild animals scare the living daylights out of you? Perhaps you’ve been hiking before, but that 3,000 foot elevation gain always seemed like too much. Well, Sarah Teidemann has suggestions for coping with all of those fears and more. She described her childhood as “inherent anxiety coupled with the [sketchy] neighborhood and subsequent sheltered upbringing,” all of which “led to her being a fearful person.” But she learned to be brave.