A young man flew from Philadelphia to Maine to follow his dream. This is not his story. Instead, it is the story of another young man in search of his dream. Through the mud, the mosquitoes, and face-to-face moose encounters, he found the path to take him from where he began to where he had to go - and that made all the difference. It is a story of wrong turns, failed relationships, courage, and fear. It takes place on a hike, but this is no more a book on hiking than Huckleberry Finn was a book on navigation. The Long Green Tunnel confronts the challenge of two people working together without first agreeing on a shared vision, and without testing that vision against the hardships any journey will bring. Truth or fiction? The hike really did happen, the people are real - only the names of the dogs have been changed. It is not just a hiking book, but a book about journeys.