Mike Rayder presents ALTERED ON THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL

**Rescheduled from June 21st** Mike Rayder will visit City Lights Bookstore on Saturday, August 2nd at 3:00pm to share his memoir, Altered On the Appalachian Trail.

"At twenty-two years old I had a gripping desire to find myself. I needed to know what stuff I was made of, my internal desire so significant that I sacrificed a college education to go in search of it. Five months, five million steps, and 100 pounds later, this poor city kid from the projects completed what only a hundred in the world had accomplished at the time, hiking the entire Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine.

This journey altered my mental and physical existence, changing my life forever."

Mike Rayder lives in Western North Carolina surrounded by the Great Smoky Mountains in the shadow of the Appalachian Trail with his wife, Donna. He is retired after enjoying a 34 year career with Dunkin' Donuts. At 73 years old, unable to climb the high peaks anymore, he admires them daily, at times visualizing himself trekking over those summits. "It gives me comfort to know that my footprints are up there forever."

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• Next month, 16th August, 11:00 am, Mountain Words Writers Group Reading in Sylva

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