num_pages: 238
description: Winner of the Banff Book Award for Mountain Literature, Walking the Big Wild is the account of Karsten Heuer's extraordinary 18-month journey of hiking, skiing, and paddling across 2100 miles of mountains, forests, and rivers from Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming to the Canadian Yukon.Following wild route Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y), Heuer encounters wolves, bears, and other creatures that make use of this natural migration corridor and documents the importance of its preservation as one of the last great wilderness areas of North America. Accompanied by occasional human companions and a remarkable border collie named Webster, Heuer faces immense challenges; storms, avalanches, floods, and grizzly bears. At the end of the journey, Heuer proves that there is nearly continuous wilderness that can support wildlife along the length of the Rockies, and is salvageable if the right decisions are made now.
language: English
title: Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail
titlecomplete: Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail
genres: Ecology, Nature, Environment, Outdoors, Conservation, Nonfiction, Travel, Animals, Adventure, Memoir
ratings_count: 208
publisher: Braided River