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50 Best Short Hikes in California Deserts In and around Death Valley, Joshua Tree, and Mojave Preserve JOHN KRIST
The hikes range from easy nature trails to more challenging routes suitable for a long dayhike. Each hike description lists mileage, difficulty, elevation gain, and a "child rating," indicating the age range for which the trail is best suited. All the routes are depicted on maps compiled for this book. $12.95 50 Best Short Hikes in California's Central
Coast
$13.95
Covers all the best hikes in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties, a land of incredible diversity with sparkling beaches, rugged mountains, and sunswept deserts.Hikes range from easy strolls to strenuous all-day treks with complete route descriptions. $15.95
The second book in our Adventure Kayaking series has 52 individual trips along the California coast from Big Sur to San Diego, plus trips in the best paddling lakes and rivers in southern California. Explore the best kayak spots and find out why California is a kayaking mecca for paddlers the world over. Written for all age groups and all levels of skill, this book includes information on kayak outfitters, dealers, and clubs. Each trip has a separate description and a map. Recent Release Afoot and Afield in Los Angeles County
The hiking trips are organized into specific areas, with an accurate map of each area. Icons allow the reader to determine at a glance the nature and the difficulty of each hike. 1998 update Afoot and Afield in Orange County
This guidebook has 72 hiking opportunities. The hiking trips are organized into specific areas, with an accurate map of each area. Each trip is fully described and has icons that allow the reader to determine at a glance the nature and difficulty of the trip. 1998 update Afoot and Afield in San Diego County San Diego county contains a wealth of natural scenery-unspoiled coastal canyons, pine-crested mountains, and spectacular desert landscapes. 192 hiking trips ae organized by geographical areas, each with an accurate map. New for this edition are icons designating which trips can be taken by mountain bikers and which trips allow dogs. Jerry Schad is also the author of Afoot and Afield in Los Angeles County and Afoot and Afield in Orange County. $16.95 Afoot and Afield in San Diego County The same encyclopedic information as the guidebook, plus hundreds of color photos. Search for, select and sort trips in many ways, zoom in on maps, and print out descriptions and customized maps of each of the 192 trips. System Requirements: 386 SX or better PC CD-ROM $39.95 The Anza-Borrego Desert Region This book is an authoritative, comprehensive guide to Southern California's most popular desert park, much of it still wilderness. The book contains a large foldout map, providing an overall view of the region, and also detailed maps showing the most popular hiking and backpacking areas. Sixty-five trips along 700 miles of jeep trails, paved roads and hiking routes are described, giving details of over 300 points of historic and natural interest. (The map that comes with this book is also sold separately; see Maps for details.) 1998 Edition California County Summits
1996 update
$13.95 Mountain Bicycling in the San Gabriels
1994 update The Pacific Crest Trail The only accurate, comprehensive guide to the Pacifc Crest Trail as it wends its way through California. This is the first of the two books in the series. Both books have complete 2-color topographic maps, and a detailed description of the route, including mileages and elevations. The trail descriptions and maps are divided into several sections, which is convenient for people who only want to hike a portion of the trail. Each section has an introduction that tells what kind of scenery lies ahead, possible hazards to watch out for, where you can get supplies, and the mileages between major points. Includes information on planning your hike, a history of the trail itself, and a comprehensive chapter on natural history. 1998 update The Pacific Crest Trail Hiker's Handbook A perfect how-to companion to our 2-volume guide to the Pacific Crest Trail. Tells you everything you need to know to be prepared for the difficult task of walking from Mexico to Canada. The book has wonderful advice for any hiker preparing for a long trail-or a medium-distance trail. The author hiked the whole PCT twice, and the wealth of knowledge he accumulated is invaluable. AdventureLore Press San Bernardino East Coast/Southwest Mountain
Trails Covers Southern California mountain ranges: the San Bernardinos, the San Jacintos and the Santa Rosas; and three wilderness areas: San Gorgonio, San Jacinto and Santa Rosa. Includesdayhikes and backpack trips. Contains 4-color map showing all hikes. (The map that comes with this book is also sold separately; see Maps for details.) 1995 update
Trails of the Angeles
(The map that comes with this book is also sold separately; see Maps for details.) Author John Robinson has been hiking the San Gabriels for over 30 years and is considered to be the foremost expert on the trails of these mountains. $12.95 Anza-Borrego and Colorado Desert Route Map $4.95, paper
Trails of the Angeles $4.50, paper Nature Study Guides - Southern California These 6" x 4" manuals give full descriptions in easy-to-understand language and include drawings, keys, terms, symbols, and glossaries. Desert Tree Finder Pacific Coast Berry Finder Pacific Coast Bird Finder Pacific Coast Fern Finder Pacific Coast Fish Pacific Coast Mammals Pacific Coast Tree Finder |
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The best
way to appreciate the richness of the desert landscape is on foot, and this book covers
the best of the dayhikes in and around these three desert parks. 
This guide covers hikes
in the central coast counties of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. There is a
rich diversity of topography, wildlife and cultural resources in these three counties:
ancient Chumash pictographs, California condor habitat, coastal sage scrub, chaparral,
snow-capped peaks forested by big-cone spruce, the unmatched biological richness of the
islands with their rare endemic plants and animals, and the coastal dunes and tidepools.
Each hike description lists mileage, difficulty, elevation gain, and a "child
rating.," Custom maps depict the trail routes. 
101 Hikes in Southern California
Adventure
Kayaking: Trips from Big Sur to San Diego
Los Angeles County has hundreds of
parks, a mountain range with peaks up to 10,000 feet, a mostly wild island, and great
stretches of desert. Exactly 175 hiking opportunities in every geographic province-coast,
mountains, desert and island-are described in detail. 
In Orange County's big backyard you
will find all kinds of fascinating natural environments, ranging from tidepools to
fern-bedecked canyons, to mountain peaks with views stretching a hundred miles. 
The first guide ever written to the
highest point of each of the 58 counties in the Golden State. These summits encompass some
of the state's best scenery, and most are easily accessible. For each summit there's a map
showing the route as well as information on the mileage, the difficulty, directions to the
trailhead and to the summit, and nearby campgrounds. 
Desert Hiking contains the special knowledge and techniques
needed to enjoy the desert. Includes information on the gear and clothing required, hiking
and camping techniques, and desert survival. It introduces you to the many marvelous
plants and the strange animals that creep, crawl or soar over the desert. Learn about the
most important element for successful desert hiking-water, how much you should carry, and
how to find it during your hike. 
Describes 34 trips by mountain
bicycle in the Angeles National Forest, just above Los Angeles. The book touches on each
route's history, and gives total distance, elevation gain and approximate time required to
complete it. An accurate topographic map accompanies each route. The rides range from very
easy 2-mile trips to all-day 35-mile challenges. 
200 public stairways take
you to parts of Los Angeles where auto-bound tourists and natives can't venture. Besides
being great aerobic exercise, the walks are also lessons in history, architecture,
andnature. 
Now in its 7th edition, this book is the definitive
guide to hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains, only an hour or two from Los Angeles.
Covering nearly every major trail in these mountains, this book describes 100 hikes, from
short, popular hikes to longer, backcountry treks. These remarkable mountains are only a
short distance from the dense population of Los Angeles, yet they offer tremendous
opportunities for a true wilderness experience. Includes a separate, fold-out map showing
all the trails. Find out why this book has become the "bible" for hiking the San
Gabriels. 
San Bernardino
Mountain Trails