| | Author's Note | p. ix |
| | Map | p. xi |
| | Prologue | p. 3 |
| | The Ten Thousand Things | |
| | The Ten Thousand Things | p. 9 |
| | Splitting | p. 28 |
| | Hunching in a Remotely Upright Position | p. 38 |
| | Tracks | |
| | The Pacific Crest Trail, Volume 1: California | p. 47 |
| | Tracks | p. 61 |
| | A Bull in Both Directions | p. 76 |
| | The Only Girl in the Woods | p. 102 |
| | Range of Light | |
| | Corvidology | p. 119 |
| | Staying Found | p. 136 |
| | Range of Light | p. 146 |
| | Wild | |
| | The Lou Out of Lou | p. 177 |
| | This Far | p. 190 |
| | The Accumulation of Trees | p. 206 |
| | Wild | p. 222 |
| | Box of Rain | |
| | Box of Rain | p. 237 |
| | Mazama | p. 262 |
| | Into a Primal Gear | p. 274 |
| | Queen of the PCT | p. 289 |
| | The Dream of a Common Language | p. 300 |
| | Acknowledgments | p. 313 |
| | Books Burned on the PCT | p. 317 |