BOOKS
 (The list of books that follow include out of print, sometimes older books and the most current books on the market.)

Everett Ruess
Everett Ruess A Vagabond for Beauty by W.L. Rusho.
Peregrine Smith Books published 1983.

On Desert Trails With Everett Ruess with intro by Hugh Lacey
Publisher Gibbs Smith 2000.

Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts
published by Broadway books 2011.

The Complete Walker III by Colin Fletcher
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 3rd Edition 1996.
(writes about backpacking-This is his classic guide to walking)

Portland's Little Red Book of Stairs by Stefan Young
1st Ed copyright 1996 Coobus Press.
Guide to more than 150 curious and colorful stairways.
(Note: Book is out of print and difficult to find.)

The Portland Stairs by Laura O. Foster
Copyright 2010Timber Press
Hundreds of Hidden Stairways offer intriguing and heart-pumping ways to take in the considerable charms of Portland, OR.

A Pedestrian's Portland by Karen & Terry Whitehill. Copyright 1989, Mountaineers. 40 walks in Portland parks and neighborhoods.

Portland City Walks by Laura O. Foster
Copyright 2008 Timber Press
Twenty explorations in and around town.

Portland Hill Walks by Laura O. Foster
Copyright 2005 Tmber Press
Twenty explorations in parks and neighborhoods.

Walk There 50 treks in and around Portland and Vancouver.
Edited by Laura O. Foster. This book funded in part by Kaiser Permanente and the Federal Transit Administration
I found out through Oregon Metro that there is an app for Walk There. Ten popular walks from the Walk There guidebook can now be downloaded onto your iphone  Check it out here.
http://www.oregonmetro.gov/index.cfm
/go/by.web/id=38150
Also on Metro's website here is a link to the page Walk There 50 Treks in and Around Portland. The walks are listed by region and can be downloaded.
http://www.oregonmetro.gov/index.
cfm/go/by.web/id=27574

Secret Stairs by Charles Fleming
A walking and hiking guide to the hidden public staircases of Los Angeles. (see website in Stairs tab)

A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins
The Walk West-A Walk across America 2 by Peter Jenkins

Planet Walker by John Francis

Planet Walker
by John Francis
When the struggle to save oil-soaked birds and restore blackened beaches left him feeling frustrated and helpless, John Francis decided to take a more fundamental and personal stand, he stopped using all forms of motorized  transportation.

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AWOL on The Appalachian Trail by David Miller
http://sectionhiker.com/awol-on-the-appalachian-trail-book-review/ 
This has reviews of the book. I learned about this book from my chiropractor. I haven't read it yet!


Bold Spirit

By Linda Lawrence Hunt 
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara’s curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern Washington. Their route would pass through 14 states, but they were not allowed to carry more than five dollars each. As they visited Indian reservations, Western boomtowns, remote ranches and local civic leaders, they confronted snowstorms, hunger, thieves and mountain lions with equal aplomb. Their treacherous and inspirational journey to New York challenged contemporary notions of femininity and captured the public imagination. But their trip had such devastating consequences that the Estby women's achievement was blanketed in silence until, nearly a century later, Linda Lawrence Hunt encountered their extraordinary story. 

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Tails Along the Trails: Walking Adventures With Dogs by Becky Corwin-Adams
Published by Brittdog Publishing
April 10 2013 published.

A memoir of walking adventures, with and without dogs, the book details charity walks and volkswalks
The book explains volkssporting and contains information about the American Volkssport Association, an active world-wide walking organization.
Volkssporting clubs are located in many cities in the United States, Canada, and dozens of other countries around the world. The book includes walking adventures across the state of Ohio, many other states, and Canada. From star sightings while walking in Las Vegas, to attending national walking conventions, getting lost along the trail, and walking in all kinds of weather, walking is always an adventure, especially when accompanied by dogs! 
This is on my list of books to read. I received a lovely facebook message from Becky about her new book and now it is listed here. I also did a little sleuthing and I found this link too which I am posting here too.
http://mycockerspaniel.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7219 

The Gentle Art of Wandering

by David Ryan
I read this book and encourage everyone to wander when they walk. The book encourages people to get out and enjoy all that is around them. The book emphasizes being present and connected when outdoors. This leads to seeing and making discoveries which makes any outing an adventure.
Long Distance Hiking on the Appalachian Trail for the Older Adventurer by David Ryan
Published 2002 recently republished 2012.

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Wild From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
Cherly Strayed lives in Portland OR.
Listen to a video clip from an interview on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/18/148858058/a-wild-solitary-journey-on-the-pacific-crest-trail

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and to do it alone. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than “an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise.” But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone. Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
Great read. I bought the book and read it in about 2 days. I couldn't put it down. The author inspired me to add the Thur-hiking tab to the website. Scout

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Hiking Books:

Moon Outdoors- Pacific Northwest Hiking by Sccott Leonard and Sean Patrick Hill
6th Ed. May 2010 Avalon B

60 Hikes Within 60 Miles by Paul Gerald
Copyright 2007
Guide to year-round hiking fun in the Portland area.

100 Hikes in Northwest Oregon & Southwest Washington by William L. Sullivan
Copyright 2006, 2007

The Trail Book Portland Mt Hood, Columbia Gorge and the surrounding areas. Published by Peak Media Inc., Mark Kashino, Clarence stilwel and Michael Cord.
Copyright 1996.

Natural History Resources: 

The Tracker The true story of Tom Brown, Jr. as told to William Jon Watkins
by Tom Brown Jr and William Jon Watkins.
copyright 1978 by Prentice-Hall Inc. A Berkley Book

Tracks & Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates A Guide to North American Species
by Charley Eiseman and Noah Charney
Copyright 2010 by Stackpole  Books

Mammal Track & Sign A Guide to North American Species 
by Mark Elbroch
Copyright 2003 by Stackpole Books

Stories in Tracks & Sign Reading the Clues that
Animals Leave behind 
by Diane K. Gibbons Foreward and photography by Mark Elbroch
copyright 2008 by Stackpole Books

In The Company of Crows and Ravens
by John M. Marzluff and Tony Angell
copyright 2005 by Yale University

The Wild Within Adventures in
Nature and Animal Teachings
by Paul Rezendes
copyright 1998 by the Berkeley Publishing Group

Tracking & The Art of Seeing How to Read Animal Tracks and Signs
by Paul Rezendes
copyright 1999 Harper Collin Books

Signs of the Wild A field guide to the spoor & signs of the mammals of Southern Africa
by Clive Walker
copyright 1996 Struik Publishers (Pty) Ltd.

Coyote's Guide to Connecting With Nature
by Jon Young, Ellen Haas, Evan McGown
Copyright 2010(2nd Printing) Owlink Media
Corporation.
Awareness! Belonging! Connection!
A guide to spark our natural curiosity with nature.

What the Robin Knows by Jon Young
copyright 2012
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Birds are sentries-and our key to
understanding the world beyond our front door.
 
Maps:
Hiking & Running Guide to Forest Park 10 Map Set
Friends of Forest Park.
Website: http://www.friendsofForestPark.org/

Trail Guides:
Arizona Trail the official guide
Copyright 2005, Westcliff Publishers
Arizona Trail Association. 
text by Tom Lorang Jones photography by Jerry Sieve.