Blue Butterfly: Walking Through Grief on the PCT

Linda Bakkar was born in Seattle, Washington, and has spent most of her life in the Pacific Northwest. She shared forty-eight years with her beloved husband, Adnan. The two met in college in Laramie, Wyoming, and went on to raise three sons.

As a young mother, Bakkar joined a group of women who hiked and climbed different mountains across the Pacific Northwest. Bakkar began writing about her amazing experiences to share with her elderly father, and several stories were published in local magazines.

Bakkar spent years hiking different sections of the Pacific Crest Trail. She completed the trail in 2012. When Adnan passed away from cancer in 2014, she returned to it once again.

Bakkar’s work has been published in Chicken Soup for the Nature Lover’s Soul and The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader, California. She lives in a log house in the Colorado mountains.