![]() ![]() He negotiated its steep trails, rock falls and river currents, which extend 200 miles on the map but encompass more than 400 zigzag miles on foot. In it he recounts his 1963 journey within the rim of the Grand Canyon. Fletcher finished his next best-known book, The Man Who Walked Through Time, the same year that he published his original walker’s guide. ![]() Hiking, he wrote in The Complete Walker III, is a “simple, delightful, intended-to-be-liberating-from-the-strai ght-line-coordinates-of-civilization pastime.”Įffusive and prolific throughout his career, Mr. Fletcher offered as paeans to soul-restoring and solitary strolls through the hinterlands. COLIN FLETCHER has hiked the entire Grand Canyon, walked the length of California, and seen enough action to fill seven adventure books, but the prospect of doing research to fill all 800-plus. So, too, have two of the seven other books that Mr. Many wilderness enthusiasts consider the work to be the hiker’s bible.įirst published in 1968, the book has sold more than 500,000 copies and remains in print. For this version, the celebrated writer and hiker Colin Fletcher has taken on a coauthor, Chip Rawlins, himself an avid outdoorsman and a poet from Wyoming. Fletcher write the fourth edition of The Complete Walker published in 2002. ![]() Fletcher died as a result of complications of head injuries he sustained in 2001 when he was struck by a car while walking near his home in Carmel Valley, Calif., said Chip Rawlins, who helped Mr. ![]() Colin Fletcher, whose ornate prose and prosaic tips on such subjects as choosing the right hiking boots helped start the modern backpacking movement, died June 12 in Monterey, Calif. ![]()
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