There’s a documentary film that crept onto various streaming services earlier this month with very little fanfare, but we think it’ll be right up your street. After all, it features a trek up the entire Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), 2,650 miles through the USA, from the Mexican border to the Canadian border.
It’s called Black Outside and it chronicles the personal and literal journey of Gary Wilkerson, a black man from the deep south who’s never been backpacking before. He believes that his reticence to challenge himself in the great outdoors has its roots in the racism that’s part of our cultural background – and he doesn’t believe he’s alone in that feeling.
