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About the Author
For 30 years, Tom Stienstra's full-time job has been to capture and communicate the outdoor experience. This has led him across California - fishing, hiking, camping, boating, biking, and flying - searching for the best of the outdoors and then writing about it.
Tom is the nation's top-selling author of outdoors guidebooks. He has been inducted into the California Outdoor Hall of Fame and has twice been awarded National Outdoor Writer of the Year, newspaper division, by the Outdoor Writers Association of America. He has also been named California Outdoor Writer of the Year five times, most recently in 2007. Tom is the outdoors columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle; his articles appear on sfgate.com and in newspapers around the country. He broadcasts a weekly radio show on KCBS-San Francisco and formerly hosted an outdoor television show on CBS/CW San Francisco.
The author of 13 outdoor guidebooks, Ann Marie Brown is a dedicated California outdoorswoman. She hikes, bikes, and camps more than 150 days each year in an effort to avoid routine, complacency, and getting a real job.
Ann Marie's work has appeared in Sunset, VIA, Backpacker, and California magazines. As a way of giving back a little of what she gets from her experiences in nature, she writes and edits for several environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and National Resources Defense Council.
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- Series: Moon Outdoors
- Paperback: 849 pages
- Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; Ninth Edition edition (March 6, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1612381634
- ISBN-13: 978-1612381633
- Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
This book just keeps getting better with age. Now in its ninth edition, California Hiking by Ann Marie Brown and Tom Stienstra is simply the most popular, most comprehensive, and in this edition, the most accurate volume of its kind. Hiking guidebooks almost never see nine editions, but this one has a loyal following and deserves a wide readership. Why? Because no matter where you are in the Golden State, this book will lead you to some spectacular hikes close by.
In all editions since 2002, California Hiking is organized by regions. Chapters run from the northern part of the state (Redwood Empire) to the southern deserts. Each chapter features a set of maps to help you locate trailheads, and each also highlights the authors' favorite hikes found in that chapter. As might be expected, some of these chapters are more extensive than others. The chapter on the greater San Francisco Bay area, with its profusion of national, state, and local parks, includes 209 different routes, nearly one fifth of the total hikes in the book. Lake Tahoe, the southern Sierra, including Sequoia and Kings Canyon, and Yosemite also receive a lot of attention. But even the shorter chapters include some real gems. The coastal hikes in Monterrey, Big Sur, and Santa Barbara are some of the best trails in the state. I have used this book for years to plan my vacations and will continue to do so in the future.
In this new (2012) edition, California Hiking features 1,014 hikes of varying difficulty. Some are short leg stretchers of a quarter of a mile. Others are long one way treks of up to 112 miles. The average hike is about 7 miles.
I purchased an earlier edition to this in the mid 90s and loved it. My old edition was used so often it is starting to come apart!..So I decided to upgrade this year to this updated version, which just arrived. There are numerous things to point out about this reference.
Organization: I love this book for the way it is laid out. The front shows a diagram of the state of California divided into key hiking zones. On this diagram, it identifies the page number for that zone. When you flip to your zone of interest, you will find a blown up diagram of that zone with sub-zones and page #s which then identify trail reference numbers all over them. So, in about 20 seconds, you can focus on an area of interest and identify a series of trails in your area. When you flip to a trail number, it has the trail name, length, estimated time to hike, level of difficulty from 1-5 and level of beauty from 1-10. This is an absolute perfect way to quickly introduce a trail. The paragraphs that follow are well written and brief descriptions of the trail; accessibility to hikers, dogs, bikes, horses or wheelchair; Permits and fees; Identification of USGS maps for the trail; Directions to the trailhead; and Ranger station contacts including phone # and web address if applicable. You can complete the initial planning of a new hike with this book in a matter of minutes. A fantastic reference for California hiking.
Content: 1000 trails! I didn't count them all, but I believe the number. The first trail description starts on pg.45 and the last on pg.882, so I believe the 1000 trail claim. Obviously the John Muir trail, PCT and Yellowstone are completely covered, so are areas in the less obvious areas such as the desert areas in the south western area of the state.
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