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You mentioned planning more solo trips. The best information for planning a hike in the Sierra Nevada comes from two books: "Sierra North" and "Sierra South". These books are filled with information about hiking from trail heads all over the Sierra Nevada, with information about trails you might not have considered, which can help get away from the crowds. Rating the trips Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, they provide a good idea of what you can expect on the trail, elevation, campsites, etc. Cross country routes are included. I often use these for the basic outline of a trip, then add my own variations. If you tear out the specific pages and take them on the trip, along with map and compass, the information is useful.
If you want to get further off the beaten track, "The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes and Trails" goes into much more depth.
Peace
Umm. You don't have to "tear out the specific pages." You scan the pages, and take the copies.
Congratulations for taking your first solo trip. Some folks never take that step. Kind of different when you're making all the decisions on your own, isn't it? I get more immersed in the experience and closer to nature. Listening to the wind and the stream and the birds is better than chit-chat.
On every backpacking trip I've ever taken, there was always some gear that doesn't get used, and something that I wish I'd brought with me. That's just the way it goes.
You mentioned planning more solo trips. The best information for planning a hike in the Sierra Nevada comes from two books: "Sierra North" and "Sierra South". These books are filled with information about hiking from trail heads all over the Sierra Nevada, with information about trails you might not have considered, which can help get away from the crowds. Rating the trips Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, they provide a good idea of what you can expect on the trail, elevation, campsites, etc. Cross country routes are included. I often use these for the basic outline of a trip, then add my own variations. If you tear out the specific pages and take them on the trip, along with map and compass, the information is useful.
If you want to get further off the beaten track, "The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes and Trails" goes into much more depth.
Peace
Yes! I own those and they are invaluable. I will order the other book you recommend soon. I DO want to get further off the beaten track.
You high-tech people are always a step ahead. So what if I have a phone on my coffee table, where you put your finger in the holes in the dial, and spin it around to make a call. Think I'm ever going to lose that thing, or put it in my pocket and break it?
You high-tech people are always a step ahead. So what if I have a phone on my coffee table, where you put your finger in the holes in the dial, and spin it around to make a call. Think I'm ever going to lose that thing, or put it in my pocket and break it?
rotary dial. sweet I don't carry a cell phone in the back country. I carry paper (maps.) copied.
I confess, I too tear out pages of guidebooks. Gives me an excuse to buy the new edition. One advantage is that the originals do not "bleed" when wet as does most ink used for printing.
Asolthane >>> "I did have my tackle with me and managed to catch a couple fish by tying some tipped to a stick and letting the wind carry it onto the water, but it didn't work very well."
As someone often much too busy with my photography pursuits, on trips I don't bring my rod and reel, I often will bring a little Ziplock bag with a length of old floating fly line, 10 feet of 4 lb test mono, and a few dry flies, a couple clear floats, a couple #12 hooks, and maybe one big woolly bugger with a couple small split shots, all of which weighs almost nothing. If I decide to do some fishing, will look for areas with willows, the branches of which can make reasonable poles. Of course even larger rainbow or goldens often make an appearance right by the shore in deep areas. And in brookie lakes fish are always grubbing about in the shallows besides being stupid. The trick is to not scare such fish maybe by hiding behind something like a bush. But such gear is much more useful in streams where one can dap flies on the surface straight down. The trick again is a slow stealthy approach.
Wandering Daisy wrote:I confess, I too tear out pages of guidebooks. Gives me an excuse to buy the new edition. One advantage is that the originals do not "bleed" when wet as does most ink used for printing.
yeah.. I either print on a laserjet, or just put them in a ziplock. I like my original books, but I get your point. I've seen the inkjet smear before.
yeah.. I either print on a laserjet, or just put them in a ziplock. I like my original books, but I get your point. I've seen the inkjet smear before.
Same here.
Professional Sierra Landscape Photographer
I don't give out specific route information, my belief is that it takes away from the whole adventure spirit of a trip, if you need every inch planned out, you'll have to get that from someone else.
Have a safer backcountry experience by using the HST ReConn Form 2.0, named after Larry Conn, a HST member:http://reconn.org
You high-tech people are always a step ahead. So what if I have a phone on my coffee table, where you put your finger in the holes in the dial, and spin it around to make a call. Think I'm ever going to lose that thing, or put it in my pocket and break it?
rotary dial. sweet I don't carry a cell phone in the back country. I carry paper (maps.) copied.
I don't carry a cell phone in the back country. I carry paper (maps.) copied.
