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Day One, and already she was lying down in her journal. It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts got just finished college or university, so when her friend advised they hike California's John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a hard home life and thoughts about the near future. But she never imagined that the 28-day hike would change her life. Part memoir, part mother nature writing, part travelogue, Almost Someplace is Roberts's consideration of this hike. John Muir had written of the Sierra Nevada as a "vast range of light", which was exactly what Roberts was looking for. But traveling with two girlfriends, one experienced and unflappable and the other inexperienced and bulimic, she quickly found out that she needed a new frame of reference. Her report of a month in the backcountry - confronting bears, snowy goes by, broken equipment, injuries, and peculiar men - is as much about finding a woman's way into outdoor experience as it is about the natural world she so eloquently describes. Candid and funny and, finally, smart, Almost Someplace is not simply the whimsical coming-of-age report of a young woman ill-prepared for a month in the mountains but also the reflection of any distinctly womanly view of mother nature.
