A Hiker's Guide to Disaster Author:Davida (Pete) Gates Davida (Pete) Gates did little serious hiking before age fifty, but had disasters from the start! From day trails, to backpacking, to highway walking, she has endured fifteen hundred miles of problems, giving up only after old age, artificial knees and blindness interfered. As office worker, teacher, college professor and professional sociologis... more »t, she has lived through other disasters too. She has traveled all the lower 48 and Alaska (4 times), Canada and Mexico (several times), China, Pakistan, New Zealand, and Australia; rockhounded for 60 years; took rafts through Grand Canyon. These indicate a fully disastrous life.« less