Hello everyone, welcome back to National Park After Dark.

Hey everyone, we got a special guest for you.

We sure do.

We are back another Thursday episode with a guest.

And today we are joined by someone whose voice you might actually recognize because

they've been on here before.

Andrea Linkford is joining us today.

She's back on the show to discuss another amazing piece of writing that we have eagerly

anticipated.

When we first spoke with her over a year ago when we were recording an episode discussing

her book Ranger Confidential, she had hinted towards a new book that she was working on

and lo and behold, it is finally here and she is back on the podcast to talk about it.

Her new book is titled Trail of the Lost, the relentless search to bring home the missing

hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail.

And this book paints a vivid picture of hiker culture and its complicated relationship

with the ever-expanding online realm.

Despite the ever-growing sprawl of civilization and advent of smartphones, the American wilderness

is still vast and treacherous.

There are dozens of ways to die, hundreds of parks and forests to get lost in, and millions

of places that can easily conceal a corpse.

Andrea Linkford has led rescue missions across America from Yosemite to Grand Canyon, searching

for lost hikers, down aircraft, flash flood victims, homicidal fugitives from justice,

...