Because you mentioned A Walk In The Woods, it’s a pleasant little book EXCEPT for some of his liberal idiocy.
Tells about women being raped and murdered in their tents, then about how sick it makes him to see a female park ranger with a sidearm!
He also complains that the park service is letting mountain tops which were farmed a century ago return to nature, because he likes the “balds” areas which resulted.
Fun book but he’s an idiot/liberal -same thing.
The balds weren’t farmed...They were grazed in the summers...The balds are natural...They didn’t have stands of trees, but just brush and grasses...The cattle kept them smooth...They came up from the farms in Cades Cove and were brought back down in winter...
I’m from Townsend, TN and the back edge of my mom and dad’s farm was the Park border...I was raised all over the Park...Hiking, fishing, camping for over 55 years...never had a problem with a bear...Saw plenty, but never a problem....