Force of Nature
Three Women Tackle the John Muir Trail
By Joan M. Griffin
Black Rose Writing, 2023
Pages: 378
Genre: Nonfiction – Memoir/Travel/Outdoors
Via: Blog Tour
Note: We received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
So Her Momness and I came back from chugging all over hill and dale the other day and checked the mail. We found Joan Griffin’s hiking memoir, Force of Nature, waiting for us. Cool, we thought. Besides. Who can resist that luscious cover?
Well. Mom and I agreed to join a blog tour for this book for three main reasons: 1) One of us has been hiking since she was knee-high to a bean-sprout (back when dinosaurs roamed the earth); 2) One of us is a native Californian and knows the John Muir Trail (JMT); 3) Mom’s private chocolate stash was running low and I, Kimber, promised her a refill if she finished this book lickety-split-ish. (Yea, verily. It’s amazing what some peeps will do for free chocolate. Selah.)
Okay. Where was I. Oh yeah. Force of Nature. I’ll let Mom give ya some deets:
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