ISBN: 9780899978420
Editorial: Wilderness Press
Autor: Summers, Jordan
Año de edición: 2020
N° Paginas: 384
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: The PCT’s #1 Guide for More Than 45 YearsFirst published in 1973, The Pacific Crest Trail, Vol. 1, California quickly established itself as the book trekkers could not do without. Now thoroughly updated and redesigned, Pacific Crest Trail: Northern California starts in Yosemite National Park’s beautiful backcountry and guides you to the California-Oregon border. It winds past rivers, peaks, forests, meadows, fascinating geological formations, and other natural wonders.Let PCT gurus Jordan Summers and Jeffrey P. Schaffer share more than four decades of expertise with you. They’ll help you with everything you need to know about this 776.4-mile section of the 2,650-mile trail. You’ll pass through Emigrant, Desolation, and Marble Mountain wildernesses; Shasta-Trinity National Forest; and Lassen Volcanic National Park; and you’ll see Lake Tahoe, Burney Falls, Mount Shasta, and Castle Crags.In this book, you’ll findAll-in-one guide by accomplished hikers who have logged over 5,000 trail miles Detailed trail descriptions and alternate routes Full-color customized maps, drawn to scale with one another Need-to-know information for day hikes, weekend backpacks, and an ambitious thru-hike Tips for locating the trail, water sources, and resupply access routesThis guidebook will be your truest companion. So now’s the time to get going. The trail awaits!Review“These guides will plant both your feet in the dirt, so you can travel into the wild with confidence.”―Pacific Crest Trail AssociationAbout the AuthorSince he was six years old, Jordan Summers has had more fun sleeping on rock, snow, and dirt than any one person should be allowed, spending absurd amounts of time in mountains, forests, canyons, and deserts. Jordan’s newest guidebooks, Pacific Crest Trail: Northern California and Pacific Crest Trail: Oregon and Washington, are the result of Summers’ 4,000-plus miles trekking this national treasure. Jordan’s passion for the outdoors and love for the Sierra Nevada range combined to propel his motivation in writing guidebooks: “to help hikers of all abilities get out there, have a great time out there, leave no trace there, and come home safely from there.” Summers is an alumnus of the National Outdoor Leadership School, a Leave No Trace trainer, and a NOLS-WMI Wilderness First Responder. Jordan lives in the Sierra Nevada foothill town of Pioneer, California, and is a volunteer for the Tahoe Rim Trail Association and the Pacific Crest Trail Association.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.SECTION I: Tuolumne Meadows to Sonora PassThe RouteGeology: At mile 942.5, before leaving the parking lot below imposing Lembert Dome, look at the large feldspar crystals in the rock of the dome’s base. This rock, called Cathedral Peak granite, solidified as a single unit several miles below the earth’s surface about 86 million years ago. The large, blocky crystals make outcrops of this particular granite―a pluton―very easy to identify, and they give rock climbers holds on otherwise slick, glacier-smoothed rock.On the road to Soda Springs you go 0.3 mile west and reach a gate where a north fork climbs to the Tuolumne Meadows Stable. On the closed road you continue west to a fork (943.2–8,596') just beyond a minor gap, from which the left branch―the JMT―heads southwest to a bridge across the Tuolumne River, bound for Yosemite Valley. At the fork you keep right, climb a few paces, and take a shortcut trail due west to the road again, intersecting it in 0.1 mile at the Soda Springs area.Trail Info From the springs area, our well-signed trail starts a rolling traverse northwest from the road. Just 50 yards before you reach multi-branched Delaney Creek (944.1–8,612'), a trail from the stable comes in on the right. No fishing is allowed here or upstream due to a planted population of endangered Piute cutthroat trout. Just 0.4 mile beyond the creek, near two small granite knolls, the Young Lakes Trail
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