Trekking California (Backpacker Magazine)

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Summary: Ansel Adams ... Galen Rowell ... Paul Richins
Review: Comprehensive, vastly researched, exquisitely presented. This guidebook gives experienced mountaineers all the motivation and instruction they will need with photographs that make it worthy of coffee table status.

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Summary: Great read for those wanting more out of the backcountry!
Review: Great book with useful information for those wanting a little more out of their trips in backcountry of CA. Most of the book concentrates on The Sierras, which for me is a good thing. This book gives all the usefull information needed for making you trips a success. The book covers all the basics, but also touches upon going light, and proper nutrition which most guide books don't touch upon. Alot of the treks in this book has cross-country variations as well as side trips that will make your trips more interesting than the average trail type trek. The photos in this book are outstanding, and the easy nature that Paul writes makes the book very enjoyable to read. I will be using this book on many backpacking, oooppsss I mean trekking journeys this summer and many more to come. Buy it!

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Summary: Love the Treks - Love the Color Photos
Review: I love to backpack in the Sierras and Trinity Alps and am happy to say this guide is most helpful. It is full of organized details and helpful information for the serious backpacker. The color photos are a plus. I have been to many of these places as part of shorter trips as well, and they are as gorgeous as the book describes.

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Summary: This is a complete planning guide
Review: Most of the treks are in the High Sierra, a place I am well familiar with. The book is is a great list for ideas, saving experienced people the effort of poring over maps to develop tentative plans and make decisions. For novices, the book includes all the standard information and advice: on gear, food, weather, going light, mountain maladies and treatment, lightning and bears.

And the pictures! More than just snapshots of the country one would see, they provide a stimulus and motivation to get out there right now. I have traveled on parts or all of 12 of the 20 treks; now I am anxious to do more of them.

This book goes on my bookshelf, next to Moynier & Fiddler, Secor, and Croft.


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Summary: SPECTACULAR
Review: THE SPECTACULAR COLOR PHOTOS, THE CLEAR NARRATIVE AND THE WELL DRAWN MAPS ENTICE ME INTO THE HIGH SIERRA. THIS TREKKING GUIDE BY PAUL RICHINS HAS PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR VARIED ROUTES INTO THE SPLENDID MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA. I LOOK FORWARD TO FOLLOWING SOME OF HIS SUGGESTIONS.