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# Balancing on Blue: Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail (Thru-Hiking Adventures Book 3) Kindle Edition

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## Customer Reviews

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    Wanted so much to give 5 stars
  

*by R***L on Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2016*

I have read all three of Mr. Foskett's books. In a row. In the same week. Very compelling reading. The author elevates the average thu-hike memoir with a wonderful sense of story-telling.  The reader gets to understand the terrain, the beauty, the wonder; rather than just a daily re-hash of a trail journal (as interesting as those can be). Recommended to anyone who is thinking of such an undertaking or for those of us who can only experience such things vicariously.So, why not 5 stars? The author's habit of denigrating those who are only out for a day, or possibly just a peek at the trail. Fortunately, these nasty digressions are brief and rare. It would be fine if everyone could walk and walk and walk as the author has. It would be great if everyone could be gifted with the health and ability to pick up for six or more months to pursue such an epic hike. However, and sadly, this is not the case. Some of us venture a mile or so up the trail, up the stairs, out of breath, just to get a glimpse of what the author has the health to accomplish and the skill to write so blithely about. Next time you see the middle-aged "out of shape", overweight woman slowing down your thru-hike, keep in mind this may be her dream to just walk that mile, struggle up those stairs, because injury or illness means that is the best she can do. To walk a mile on a trail may be just as big an accomplishment to her as completing thousands of miles is to the author. Comments such as yours is why many would rather not attempt at all rather than face the scorn and ridicule such as the author exhibits on occasion.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    One of the best books on hiking the entire Appalachian Trail
  

*by L***E on Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2019*

The reviews on "Balancing on Blue," by Keith Foskett, an Englishman, seemed pretty favorable on the whole, so I thought I'd give it a try and bought the Kindle version. I've done some overnighting on the Appalachian Trail myself in years past, and I've read many accounts of the end-to-enders (now called thru hikers). Some accounts focus on the trail and the flora and fauna, most on how the hiker feels along the way, most (nowadays) on the camaraderie experienced among the hundreds who hike the trail, while a few focus (too much in my opinion) on the psyche of the author and those met while hiking. "Balancing on Blue" was a very nice blend of these. Foskett (whose trail name was Fozzie) liked hiking alone, and his descriptions of the woods, the mountains, the streams and the animal and vegetable life—appreciated especially by him when hiking solo—are beautiful. He has a gift for making detail interesting, an example of which was how he described even the "nuisance" rocks and stones the Pennsylvania portion of the trail is known for. But Foskett also got full enjoyment from his being with others on the trail, and that's what makes this book well-rounded. He appreciated the woods, while appreciating at the same time to the full the friendships with others that sprang up on the trail and off, when the hikers would rest up, clean up and resupply at nearby towns. I found Foskett very candid about his fellow hikers but never offensively so, and I did NOT find what a couple of reviewers found: a critical "I'm better than they are" attitude toward some other hikers. He was equally candid about himself. Foskett was not a novice long-distance hiker. He hiked the AT after having hiked the slightly longer Pacific Crest Trail. Interestingly, although the mountains were higher on the PCT, he found the AT harder, in part due to the very frequent wet weather on the AT. "Balancing on Blue" is one of the best AT thru-hiker books in my opinion, packed with information presented interestingly—only perhaps just a little bit too heavy on the off-trail doings of going end to end today. However, that may be because I'm an old timer, before the era of trail names, trail magic, so MANY hikers, and the popularity of the trail.

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    Author needs a huge attitude adjustment
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2016*

The author has an extremely high opinion of himself and loves to point out the unworthiness of the typical day hiker. If you like reading about how American taxpayers out for day enjoying their own country are fat, unworthy and ridiculous, while reading about how picking imaginary fleas out of one's beard is hilarious (wtf? Euro trash), then this book is for you. When he tried to give out insulting trail names to fellow hikers ("Pink Bits"? AUFKM?!), he is stunned and hurt that his misogynistic humor isn't welcomed. I couldn't enjoy the adventures because I kept thinking what a premium ass---- this guy is. Yuck. Please don't come back to the US.

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