· A Book Review: Ghost Trails, Journeys through a lifetime; By Jill Homer. Men in oil-stained Carhartt jackets and shiny snowmobile suits crowded around the counter, filling half the building with traditional Alaskan values and amused facial expressions. On the other side of the bar, which was set up restaurant style, were table after table of Europeans in down jackets and ski Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. "Ghost Trails" is the true story of an ordinary person - timid, nonathletic, raised in the suburbs of Salt Lake City - and her unlikely route to one of the most difficult bicycle races in the world, a mile epic along Alaska's frozen Iditarod trail. Through her struggles and intimate confrontations with her fears and weaknesses, she discovers the surprising destination of her life's trails/5(72). "Ghost Trails" is the true story of an ordinary person - timid, nonathletic, raised in the suburbs of Salt Lake City - and her unlikely route to one of the most difficult bicycle races in the world, a mile epic along Alaska's frozen Iditarod trail. Through her struggles and intimate confrontations with her fears and weaknesses, she discovers the surprising destination of her life's trails/5(72).
Ghost Trails, Journeys through a lifetim e is not just Jill Homer's account of the Iditarod Trail Invitational. "If my daughter wanted to do that, ride a bike across the tundra," the man said as he nudged another guy sitting next to him, "I'd kill her. I would. It would be a less painful way to die." His friend laughed. So, naturally, when Jill published Ghost Trails: Journeys through a lifetime, of course I ordered a copy. Here's why: I love a well-told story of any sort. I love well-told stories about epic mountain bike rides even more. I love well-told stories about epic mountain bike stories by my friends most of all. "Ghost Trails: Journeys Through a Lifetime" is the inspirational journey of an unlikely endurance athlete locked in one of the most difficult wilderness races in the world, the Iditarod Trail Invitational. Through her struggles and discoveries in Alaska's beautiful, forbidding landscape, Jill begins to understand the ultimate destination of her.
A Book Review: Ghost Trails, Journeys through a lifetime; By Jill Homer. Men in oil-stained Carhartt jackets and shiny snowmobile suits crowded around the counter, filling half the building with traditional Alaskan values and amused facial expressions. On the other side of the bar, which was set up restaurant style, were table after table of Europeans in down jackets and ski boots, skinny cyclists in knee-high overboots and lycra-clad runners wearing sneakers when it was 20 degrees outside. [PDF] Unlimited ↠ Ghost Trails:Journeys through a lifetime: by Jill Homer, Ghost Trails:Journeys through a lifetime, Jill Homer, Ghost Trails Journeys through a lifetime Jill wasn t an athlete at least not in the insecure corners of her identity What she was was cold And frightened And alone in the frozen wilderness of Alaska than a hundred miles from the nearest outpost of civilization As. Ghost Trails Quotes Showing of 3 “Bicycle travel was slow enough to mean something, simple enough to be possible, and hard enough to be worth it.” ― Jill Homer, Ghost Trails: Journeys through a lifetime.
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