Best Easy Day Hikes Southern Sierra

Rating:
Summary: Pleasant Walking in the Southern Sierra
Review: The "Best Easy Day Hikes" series from Falcon Press is an excellent set of walking guides for the casual hiker. Long difficult climbs, marathon hikes, and difficult backcountry treks without trails are all absent from these brief guidebooks. Instead, one finds short to moderate walks with nice scenery. Each guide also includes helpful advice on minimum impact outdoors use, and brief maps of each hike. Finally, all guides in this set are reasonably priced, and small enough to easily fit into daypacks or a jacket pocket.

This particular book by veteran outdoor author Ron Adkison includes a number of excellent walks. I particularly like the Boole Tree Loop and his two walks into the Domeland Wilderness. All hikes listed here are between one and ten miles, with the vast majority about five miles. None have excessive elevation gain, quite an accomplishment in a Sierra hiking guidebook. The only problem with this book is the size of the area covered. Adkison considers the Southern Sierra to include everything south of Yosemite National Park, so many of the 20 hikes described are miles from each other. Except in the Mammoth area, it would be hard to take a weekend and do three of these hikes. Still, many of the walks are true gems, and I hope to use this book to further explore the Sierra next summer.

Rating:
Summary: Pleasant Walking in the Southern Sierra
Review: The "Best Easy Day Hikes" series from Falcon Press is an excellent set of walking guides for the casual hiker. Long difficult climbs, marathon hikes, and difficult backcountry treks without trails are all absent from these brief guidebooks. Instead, one finds short to moderate walks with nice scenery. Each guide also includes helpful advice on minimum impact outdoors use, and brief maps of each hike. Finally, all guides in this set are reasonably priced, and small enough to easily fit into daypacks or a jacket pocket.

This particular book by veteran outdoor author Ron Adkison includes a number of excellent walks. I particularly like the Boole Tree Loop and his two walks into the Domeland Wilderness. All hikes listed here are between one and ten miles, with the vast majority about five miles. None have excessive elevation gain, quite an accomplishment in a Sierra hiking guidebook. The only problem with this book is the size of the area covered. Adkison considers the Southern Sierra to include everything south of Yosemite National Park, so many of the 20 hikes described are miles from each other. Except in the Mammoth area, it would be hard to take a weekend and do three of these hikes. Still, many of the walks are true gems, and I hope to use this book to further explore the Sierra next summer.