Whatcom Reads! events plentiful for Cheryl Strayed's "Wild" memoir

One of the amusing vignettes in Cheryl Strayed's "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail" takes place in a motel room just before she embarks on her solo trek on the trail.

An inexperienced hiker, she finds that she filled her pack with so much gear that when she stood up she immediately fell backward on the bed.

That's just one of the varied and visual scenes Strayed describes in her book, the 2014 selection for Whatcom READS!