When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories.

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (ed. Broadway Books, 2010) - ISBN: 9780307717832