Fewer people have hiked the full Pacific Crest Trail than have reached the summit of MountEverest. Yet, this year, so many want to hike it that a limit has been placed on permits so thatno more than 50 thru-hikers can begin at the Mexican border each day.
走完太平洋屋脊步道全程的人比登上珠穆朗玛峰的人还要少。但今年太多人想要穿越这条路,使得管理方不得不加以限制,每天只允许不超过50人从墨西哥边境出发。
Another memoir may add to the mystique. In “Girl in the Woods, scheduled for publication inSeptember, with a possible television spinoff, Aspen Matis recounts how she was raped on thesecond day of college and then fled campus to seek healing on a Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike.She starved and suffered on the trail but also found redemption — and, yes, her futurehusband by the 2,000 mile mark.
还有一本回忆录也会增加它的神秘性。在计划于今年9月出版的《林中女孩》(Girl in the Woods)一书里,阿斯彭·马蒂斯(Aspen Matis)讲述了自己的故事。此书还可能会改编成电视剧。她在上大学第二天遭到强奸,然后逃离校园去穿越太平洋屋脊步道寻求疗愈。旅行中,她忍受饥饿,经受磨难,但也获得了救赎。是的,她还在走到2000英里的时候找到了自己未来的丈夫。
(I wonder if women don’t have the edge in trail memoirs. Male hikers project toughness, femalehikers vulnerability. Ask a man resting on a trailside log how he’s doing, and he’ll boast ofhow many miles he has walked. Ask a woman, and she’ll confide about her blisters, mosquitobites and insecurities. That’s not universally true, as Bill Bryson can attest, but women seemmore comfortable opening up about the woes that are inevitably much more interesting thanthe miles.)
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