Walk from desert heat to alpine snow. Follow the trail through California’s dry valleys, granite peaks, glacial lakes, and giant sequoia groves.
Can You Read Nature? · Extraordinary Experiences
Desert to glacier. One trail connects a wild world.
Journey along the Pacific Crest Trail through lyrical storytelling, real trail science, and museum-quality artwork created for curious families.
Ages 5–14+Family nature bookArt by Kelly Liedtke
Read before you go see ten times more!
Hardcover
Hardcover + free ebook
$29.95Includes instant-download ebook
- Free ebook included with hardcover
- A nature book for your next trail adventure
- Original art that makes trail science memorable
- $1 to Children and Nature Network
Ebook
The nature book you can take anywhere
$12.95instant download
- Your perfect trail companion, see 10x more
- Kinder to the planet, nothing in a landfill
- Trail, mountain, and wildlife science shines on a screen
- $1 to Children and Nature Network
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Wear the adventure
Carry the trail with you. Wear the adventure.
Pair the hardcover nature book with the matching Pacific Crest Trail shirt for a gift that keeps the trail spirit close long after the final page.
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Look closer
Every mile opens a new wild world.
Find the magic along the way. Pass volcanoes, ancient forests, and wildflower meadows while meeting black bears, trail angels, volunteers, and hikers chasing a 2,650-mile dream.
Meet the artist
Kelly Liedtke
Award-winning pen-and-ink artist
“I hope the ordinary miracles that fascinate me can captivate you and the members of your world.”
An award winning national and internationally recognized pen and ink artist, with a day job...
Art has always been there. I discovered ink and pointillism at about the same time in high school, and I was hooked! Working with ink is both forgiving and very very not forgiving at the same time. I fell in love with the challenge as well as the journey each drawing takes you on. Sometimes it’s fast and crazy and other times it’s simple and easy. I love the way the ink’s own energy and mine work into the final piece, just like how it should be. It is important that you understand this haunts me and keeps me awake. Even when I’m busy with the other passions and responsibilities in my life, the drawings are working in my head, and waiting for their moment. I have told many people, even though the drawings take time 15-45 hours, the real struggle is in the planning. That can take months or years.
I am heavily involved in my community’s art programs. I work as the vice president in a cooperative gallery, as an active guest artist at another and I’m on the show committee for a local art club. I love participating in juried shows, new people, new galleries and spaces and sharing my skills and drawings with people who might not have seen pen and ink expressed in this way before. I have had the pleasure of showing my art all across the United States and had the honor of seeing my drawings published in magazines in Canada, U.S. and Europe. I have made many friends and learned so much while traveling to juried shows in the U.S and Europe. This journey that I am on, is an amazing gift and I hope the ordinary miracles that fascinate me can captivate you and the members of your world.
Kelly’s detailed illustrations invite families to slow down and discover the Pacific Crest Trail one dot—and one wild detail—at a time.
About this book
What is inside
Travel 2,650 miles from Mexico to Canada through desert, High Sierra, volcanoes, old-growth forests, wildlife, trail history and culture, climate challenges, Leave No Trace stewardship, and ten amazing PCT facts.
About the author
Narrated by Neil Rosen, children’s book author and founder of WildStork. Neil writes every book as an invitation to look closer, stay longer, and discover what families miss when they move too fast.
Reading level
Ages 5 to 14. Designed for the whole family, with lyrical storytelling and real science to share together.