Devils Postpile: Including the Ritter Range, the Mammoth Lakes Area, and Parts of the John Muir and Ansel Adams Wildernesses (High Sierra Hiking Gui) (Paperback)

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Discover Mt. Ritter, Banner Peak, the knife-edged Minarets, and Devils Postpile National Monument. Includes hikes for every range of ability, from easy dayhikes to multi-day backpacking trips. Includes Devils Postpile map.

What is a High Sierra Hiking Guide? It's a small, compact book that covers all the trails and trailheads in a popular area in the High Sierra. In each guide there is a minimum of 100 miles of trail described. Their compact size (4.5" x 6") makes them easy to carry. Each book has at least 96 pages of information, an index, and photographs. If you're going backpacking, each guide covers the amount of area you're likely to venture through on a backpacking trip. Or if you're camping in a particular area, the High Sierra Hiking Guides will give you lots of options for dayhikes. Save money-you don't need to buy any other maps because each hiking guide comes with an updated, accurate topographic map. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 86 pages
• Publisher: Wilderness Pr; 5th edition (October 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0899971113
• ISBN-13: 978-0899971117
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 4.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,681,455 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Making lemons out of lemonade, July 24, 2003

By	Candace Scott (Lake Arrowhead, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Devils Postpile: Including the Ritter Range, the Mammoth Lakes Area, and Parts of the John Muir and Ansel Adams Wildernesses (High Sierra Hiking Guide) (Paperback)

Yes, you read that correctly. This guide is so brittle and dry it's extremely frustrating. The Devil's Postpile area of Mammoth has a trailhead which leads you to heaven, literally. The Agnew Meadows and PCT criss-cross this area and these trails are as beautiful as any place in this hemisphere. Would you know it from this overly technical, ZZZZ-ville narrative? Nope. The authors take a place so astoundingly beautiful and reduce it to just another locale, a sort of ho-hum place you might encounter while strolling in the plains of Kansas. But Mammoth is not just any place, it's a spectacular place, a hiking paradise, a one of a kind wonder!

The map is excellent but doesn't justify the purchase of this book. The map itself is still current, even though it was produced in 1927. The mountains haven't changed, but boy, have the trailheads changed. There is also a shuttle system implemented in the past year and it will cost you $14 per couple to hit these trailhead, unless you want to ride the bus. This is vital information which is not included in this book.

To sum up: see Mammoth and hike it for yourself. Don't put any credence in this outdated, obsolete, dry-as-a-bone book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Comes with a map, May 21, 2001

By	"timjreed" (Ann Arbor, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Devils Postpile: Including the Ritter Range, the Mammoth Lakes Area, and Parts of the John Muir and Ansel Adams Wildernesses (High Sierra Hiking Guide) (Paperback)

This is an above average field guide, but the writing is sometimes so dry that while reading you may feel as if you are hiking through death valley, not Mammoth or the Ritter Range. The map that comes with it is fantastic, although, it comes from the 1920's surveys of the area.