“For walkers of all paces and geographies, this lovely book is a helpful guide for savoring moments on the trail, and feeling how deeply related we are to all existence.”

– Stephanie Kaza, author of Conversations with Trees: An Intimate Ecology

“Meditations on the Trail is a guidebook to hiking as a spiritual practice that can nurture our capacities for attention, presence, and joy. Ives offers us a sparkling net of Dharma jewels: traditional teachings made accessible through practices that cultivate deep connection with the pulsing matrix of life that envelops and supports us.”

– William Edelglass, wilderness guide, director of studies at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, and associate professor at Emerson College

“Practical, elegant, and personal, Christopher Ives’ book is a treasure, transporting our hikes into the ordinary profundity of Zen practice. It will certainly be in my backpack!”

– Judith Simmer-Brown