Escape to the Mountain: Mid-life Redemption on the John Muir Trail

Dr. Smith takes the reader on five fascinating journeys of unexcelled natural beauty, soul searching and wild encounters with man and beast in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. We tag along on hiking and backpacking adventures with Smith's chiropractic buddies, another time with his sixteen-year-old son Jared, with friends, professional guides and with his beloved wife Judy. Looking for bear stories? Escape to the Mountains delivers them in abundance along with marmots and mosquitoes, the injured horse that had to be put down along the trail, the sexy woman in the black thong panties and other surprising misfits and benefactors along the John Muir Trail.