John Muir Trail: The Essential Guide to Hiking America's Most Famous Trail (John Muir Trail)
by Elizabeth Wenk, Kathy Morey
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Author: Elizabeth Wenk, Kathy MoreyEdition: Paperback
Published: 2007-06-15
ISBN: 0899974368
Number of pages: 286
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Book Reviews of John Muir Trail: The Essential Guide to Hiking America's Most Famous Trail (John Muir Trail)
Book Review: THE book to get for the JMT
Summary: 4 Stars
Haven't hiked it yet, but this book gives the most comprehensive look at the JMC, both North bound and South bound. The reason I bought this book was because it gave details on both directions. It doesn't give you a daily guide because it knows that each person will have his or her own pace. The only thing I didn't like is that it spends too much time describing fauna and not the trail.
It is also meant to be a trail companion and to be read on the trail. Why? If I'm on the trail why do I need to read about it? Some of the detail is useless unless you are right there looking at it. However, the description of the trail and the maps are valuable (I especially like the elevation maps given for each section)
It also gives very important information on how to get to the trail, permits and where and when to get them along with some great mileage charts.
Great book for on the trail, a good book for preparation.
Summary of John Muir Trail: The Essential Guide to Hiking America's Most Famous Trail (John Muir Trail)
Running from Mount Whitney to Yosemite Valley in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, the 212-mile John Muir Trail passes through some of the most dramatic mountain terrain in the United States. Each year thousands of backpackers traverse some or all of the trail, relying on Wilderness Press's John Muir Trail. The new edition of this Sierra classic has been completely updated and revamped, and includes significant information found nowhere else. The new John Muir Trail meticulously describes the entire trail and is written for today's hikers, many of whom rely on GPS units. The book includes GPS coordinates for every junction, but also for every established campsite, bear box, and mountain pass that the trail crosses. The guide has separate descriptions for northbound and southbound hikers; for each direction a junction chart shows elevations, distance from previous point and total mileage. Incorporates Tom Harrison's 13 section maps of the trail that JMT hikers have relied on for years.General Books
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