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Summary: Wayne Moss knows his Alps!
Review: As a publisher, I can only hope that more of my authors have the depth of experience with their subject that Wayne has. He has hiked, fished, and surveyed the Trinity Alps for nearly as many years as I've been alive! Add in his sharp wit and our "3-d" topographic maps and you've got a winner.
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Summary: Captures the Spirit of the Alps
Review: Excellent, packed with practical, detailed, descriptive information--- but above and beyond this --- the book captures the "spirit" -- the essense of that special place beyond the edge of time --- the Trinity Alps Wilderness. And by the way, I've backpacked the Alps heavily for more than a decade --- but if anyone knows the Alps better than the author, Wayne Moss, I've yet to meet that person. I rarely endorse products, but give this book five stars!
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Summary: Captures the Spirit of the Alps
Review: Excellent, packed with practical, detailed, descriptive information--- but above and beyond this --- the book captures the "spirit" -- the essense of that special place beyond the edge of time --- the Trinity Alps Wilderness. And by the way, I've backpacked the Alps heavily for more than a decade --- but if anyone knows the Alps better than the author, Wayne Moss, I've yet to meet that person. I rarely endorse products, but give this book five stars!
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Summary: Captures the Spirit of the Alps
Review: Excellent, packed with practical, detailed, descriptive information--- but above and beyond this --- the book captures the "spirit" -- the essense of that special place beyond the edge of time --- the Trinity Alps Wilderness. And by the way, I've backpacked the Alps heavily for more than a decade --- but if anyone knows the Alps better than the author, Wayne Moss, I've yet to meet that person. I rarely endorse products, but give this book five stars!
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Summary: pretty good info, but printing errors
Review: I got this book after I went to the trinity alps, and the information is definitely good, however there was a whole section that was just missing from the book; I suppose it was a printing error or something.
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Summary: A travel guide with attitude
Review: The author is right -- I do feel as if I'd visited the Trinity Alps after reading this book. If I were going there in person, I'd want Wayne Moss for a guide, and this book as a second choice.
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Summary: A travel guide with attitude
Review: The author is right -- I do feel as if I'd visited the Trinity Alps after reading this book. If I were going there in person, I'd want Wayne Moss for a guide, and this book as a second choice.
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Summary: THE TRINITY ALPS COMPANION is the real deal, a keeper.
Review: There are several titles masquerading as guidebooks to the Trinity Alps Wilderness Area in Northern California. My book is the most complete and comprehensive of them all. No other book on the Trinity Alps will take you to places like Carter's Little Mud Lake, Mumford Meadow, Little South Fork Lake, or the Mclaron Mine, to name only a few. This no ordinary guidebook.
Readers may never visit the Trinity Alps, but after reading the book, they will feel as if they had.
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Summary: Without a doubt: the definitive guide to the Trinity Alps
Review: There are two guidebooks to the Trinity Alps, and this one is by far the better one. (Yes, I have both!) The books exhaustively covers every last peak and lake and trailhead in the Alps. I had fun trying to find lakes that WEREN'T in the book. It's literally an encyclopedia, and has a format that I wish more guidebooks would use. Instead of listing trails by ease (or difficulty, if you prefer) and number of nights and so on, it rather lists features in the landscape (mountains, rivers, etc.) and cross-references them with the proper trailhead so that you can plan you own trip much more easily than by adapting someone else's itinerary to your own needs. Sure, he discusses the popular routes, but the book is laid out in more of an index format. These features and organization alone make for a great guide, but this book is so much more than that. This is the first guide that I actually read cover to cover just because it was so INTERESTING. His sense of humor and wonder with world really come through in his writing -- he strikes me as a really enlightened individual and has done a wonderful job of blending the "hard facts" with his own perspectives, anecdotes, and history in the Trinity Alps. If only more people would write guidebooks like this one...
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Summary: Without a doubt: the definitive guide to the Trinity Alps
Review: There are two guidebooks to the Trinity Alps, and this one is by far the better one. (Yes, I have both!) The books exhaustively covers every last peak and lake and trailhead in the Alps. I had fun trying to find lakes that WEREN'T in the book. It's literally an encyclopedia, and has a format that I wish more guidebooks would use. Instead of listing trails by ease (or difficulty, if you prefer) and number of nights and so on, it rather lists features in the landscape (mountains, rivers, etc.) and cross-references them with the proper trailhead so that you can plan you own trip much more easily than by adapting someone else's itinerary to your own needs. Sure, he discusses the popular routes, but the book is laid out in more of an index format. These features and organization alone make for a great guide, but this book is so much more than that. This is the first guide that I actually read cover to cover just because it was so INTERESTING. His sense of humor and wonder with world really come through in his writing -- he strikes me as a really enlightened individual and has done a wonderful job of blending the "hard facts" with his own perspectives, anecdotes, and history in the Trinity Alps. If only more people would write guidebooks like this one...
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