To the Gorge: Running, Grief, and Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail

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Emily Halnon

To the Gorge

Running, Grief, and Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail

Emily Halnon

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Pegasus Books
18 September 2024

Biography: sport

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A riveting narrative of love and loss, grief and joy, as one woman embarks on a quest for a record on the Pacific Crest Trail.

When Emily Halnon lost her beloved mother to a rare uterine cancer at just sixty-six years old, she wanted to do something monumental to honor the person her mother had been: adventurous, courageous, inspiring. Emily’s mom had taken up running in her late forties; she ran her first marathon at fifty. She learned to swim at sixty so she could do triathlons, and she lived through a grim diagnosis with extraordinary joy and strength, still going for long bike rides and walks up until the final weeks before her death. She even went skydiving to celebrate her sixtieth birthday.

It was going to take something special to pay tribute to such a remarkable, lifeloving spirit. Emily, already an accomplished ultrarunner (inspired to initially start running by her mother), decided to try to break the record for the Fastest Known Time by a woman on the Pacific Crest Trail’s 460 miles across Oregon. As she laid out plans for her run, she began to wonder: Could she also break the men’s record?

To the Gorge takes the reader through her 7 days, 19 hours, and 23 minutes on the trail, covering nearly sixty miles a day on foot over rugged terrain, and battling all the issues that could arise during such a monstrous undertaking: hammered muscles, golf ballsized blisters, sleep deprivation, alpine storms, and debilitating self-doubt. All the while, she simultaneously struggles with how to get through the profound grief of losing her mom and grapples with how to move forward after experiencing devastating loss.

Interwoven with Halnon’s eight-day effort are her remembrances from her mother’s life and death, exploring the complicated experience of grief—and what shines through it.

To the Gorge will resonate with anyone whom life has hit with a hardball and has had to dig deep as they wonder how they will pull through. Filled with adventure and heart, To the Gorge invites readers to consider what our greatest losses can teach us about how to live the one life we get.

By: Emily Halnon
Imprint: Pegasus Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781639366651
ISBN 10: 1639366652
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 18 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emily Halnon is a writer, trail runner, and mountain athlete out of Eugene, Oregon. Some of her most notable runs include setting the FKT on the 460-mile Oregon PCT, placing in the top 10 at the Hardrock Hundred Mile Endurance Run, and finishing 100 milers across the Cascades, Siskiyous, and San Juans. Emily’s writing, which often explores the intersection of running and the human experience, has been published in outlets including the Washington Post, the Guardian, Salon, CNN, Runner’s World, Trail Runner Magazine, and Adventure Journal.

Reviews for To the Gorge: Running, Grief, and Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail

"""They say that pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Emily learns that lesson the hard way, when her mother is diagnosed with cancer. Then she learns it again, on her 460-mile run across Oregon in pursuit of a goal that is impossibly hard. But she confronts the pain. And transcends the suffering. As a result, her amazing badass mother, whose northstar was 'possibility' and who embrases the motto 'stay brave,' lives on in her words forever."" -- <B>Kenneth Posner, ultra-runner, peak-bagger, thru-hiker, and author of <I>Running the Long Path: A Journey of Discovery in New York's Hudson Valley</I></B>"