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John Muir Trail Elizabeth Wenk

John Muir Trail By Elizabeth Wenk

John Muir Trail by Elizabeth Wenk


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This authoritative guide describes the 220-mile John Muir Trail, running from Yosemite Valley to the summit of Mt. Whitney.

John Muir Trail Summary

John Muir Trail: The Essential Guide to Hiking America's Most Famous Trail by Elizabeth Wenk

Elizabeth Wenk's authoritative guide describes the 212-mile John Muir Trail, running from Yosemite Valley to the summit of Mt. Whitney. John Muir Trail provides all the necessary planning information, including up-to-date details on wilderness and permit regulations, food resupplies, trailhead amenities, and travel from nearby cities. Useful essentials are updated GPS coordinates and maps for prominent campsites (along with an updated list of sites along the trail), trail junctions, bear boxes, and other points of interest. The trail descriptions also include natural and human history to provide a workout for both body and mind -- a must-have for any Muir Trail enthusiast. Note that the text includes the southbound trail description, while the full guide with the northbound description is available as a separate ebook product.

John Muir Trail Reviews

An incredible accomplishment by an incredible researcher who is very attentive and considerate to the needs of her audience. —Roleigh Martin, Backpacking Light The very best way to get the most out of your experience in the wilderness is to understand it, and there is no better way to do that than to carry along Elizabeth Wenk's John Muir Trail: The essential guide to hiking America's most famous trail. The fifth edition has just been released and--to use a software analogy--it's a major upgrade. --Ray Rippel, author of the JMTbook (Planning your Thru-Hike of the John Muir Trail ebook)

About Elizabeth Wenk

Since childhood, Elizabeth Wenk has hiked and climbed in the Sierra Nevada with her family. After she started college, she found excuses to spend every summer in the Sierra, with its beguiling landscape, abundant flowers, and near-perfect weather. During those summers, she worked as a research assistant for others and completed her own Ph.D. thesis research on the effects of rock type on alpine plant distribution and physiology. But much of the time she hikes simply for leisure. Obsessively wanting to explore every bit of the Sierra, she has hiked thousands of on- and off-trail miles and climbed more than 600 peaks in the mountain range. Recently she has directed her wanderings to gather data for several Wilderness Press titles and to introduce her two young daughters to the wonders of the mountains. She lives in Sydney, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Maps

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Planning Your Hike

On the Trail

Sierra Nevada History

Cumulative Mileage Table

North to South: Yosemite Valley to Whitney Portal

  • Happy Isles to Tuolumne-Mariposa County Line
  • Tuolumne-Mariposa County Line to Donohue Pass
  • Donohue Pass to Island Pass
  • Island Pass to Madera-Fresno County Line
  • Madero-Fresno County Line to Silver Pass
  • Silver Pass to Selden Pass
  • Selden Pass to Muir Pass
  • Muir Pass to Mather Pass
  • Mather Pass to Pinchot Pass
  • Pinchot Pass to Glen Pass
  • Glen Pass to Forester Pass
  • Forester Pass to Trail Crest
  • Trail Crest to Whitney Portal

Side Trips to Peaks, Vista Points, and Lake Basins

Appendix A: JMT Lateral Trails and Nearby Towns

Appendix B: Campsites

Appendix C: Food-Storage Boxes (Bear Boxes)

Appendix D: Plants Referenced in Text

Appendix E: Bibliography and Suggested Reading

Index

About the Author

Additional information

GOR007599143
9780899977362
0899977367
John Muir Trail: The Essential Guide to Hiking America's Most Famous Trail by Elizabeth Wenk
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Wilderness Press
20140619
296
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