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John Muir Trail: The Essential Guide to Hiking America's Most Famous Trail (John Muir...
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by Elizabeth Wenk and Kathy Morey
Sales Rank: 25204
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List Price: $17.95
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Paperback: 286 pages
Publisher: Wilderness Press; 4 edition June 15, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0899974368
ISBN-13: 978-0899974361
Product Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
Wilderness Press continues to update some of their classic guides regularly and this new version of their John Muir Trail Guide is well written with a new author, Elizabeth Wenk. At its heart, the guide is similar to previous editions in giving a mile for mile description of the trail. I found it very accurate for all portions of the JMT that I have hiked. It also includes new features: numerous GPS coordinates for landmarks, updated regulations, appendices listing campsites, mileages, and resupply points, and new topographical maps from Tom Harrison. All these new features come at a small cost, however, in that the book is more than twice as large as the previous edition, by Kathy Morey and Thomas Winnett. And while you will need these new features in planning your hike, they are less important on the actual trail. Backpackers trying to save space and weight have a couple of options. One is to simply tear out the sections of the book you will be using. You hardly need the classic South to North directions if you are hiking the other way. Another is to use this edition for planning, but to get one of the older editions for the actual trip. These can be found here (1998) or here (1986). But this book is still worth purchasing. Having it will improve your odds of completing the trail and dramatically increase your enjoyment of it as well.
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