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The Bay Area Ridge Trail: Ridgetop Adventures Above San Francisco Bay

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This guide is a good book for hikers (beginners and above) who want information about day hikes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Includes: maps; photos; trail description; mileage; parking info; water and restrooms info; and transit info. Highly recommend it to anyone interested in hiking in the SF Bay Area.

And that's about it. The maps are poorly printed and difficult to read. The book is out of date. And it is incomplete. But there is little else extant about the Bay Area Ridge Trail. No maps, little else at all. I suppose that is typical for an undertaking that continues to grow. But the best way to present information about this trail would be on the Internet. Yet the B.A.R.T. official site is is pretty sketchy. This review is not in any way a criticism of the author. She wrote the first major work on the trail. All her research was original. And in 2002, it was somewhat timely. And the Trail Council works with a very small budget. So someone who wants to find out current information about the B.A.R.T. will have do dig for it. The trail is a grand undertaking, but not adequately described.