One of the hidden jewels of Texas, the Lone Star Hiking Trail is the only long-distance National Recreation Trail in the state. At 128 miles (including loop trails), it is also the state's longest continuously marked and maintained footpath. Located in the famed Big Thicket area in east Texas, the trail is well-suited for both short and long hikes (of up to 10 days), appealing to dayhikers, overnight backpackers and long-distance hikers. The LSHT lies between the major metro centers of Houston-Galveston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio--home to more than 8 million people just a 2-hour drive from the trail. The author, a Texas native, is an experienced long-distance hiker who has thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail, and many other nationally recognized long-distance trails throughout the U.S. This is the first guidebook to the trail and is officially endorsed and promoted by the Lone Star Hiking Trail Club.
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Karen Borski Somers is a native of Spring, Texas. She graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering. Since 1994, she has worked for NASA in the field of space life sciences research. Karen thru-hiked the 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail solo in 1998 and the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail with her husband in 2004. Her trail name is "Nocona," a Comanche word meaning "the wanderer." She has hiked and backpacked on trails in 36 states, logging more than 9,000 trail miles, and has bicycled the 4,400-mile Transamerica route across 10 U.S. states from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Karen currently resides with her husband, daughter, and their hiking sheltie in Alabama. They continue their quest to summit every U.S. high point, plan expedition canoe trips, and wander on and off trails.
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Karen Borski Somers is a native of Spring, Texas. She graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in biomedical engineering. Since 1994, she has worked for NASA in Clear Lake, Texas, and Huntsville, Alabama, in the field of space sciences research. Karen thru-hiked the 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail solo in 1998 and the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail with her husband in 2004. She has hiked and backpacked on trails in 36 states, logging over 9,000 trail miles, and has bicycled the 4,400-mile Transamerica route across ten US states from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Karen currently resides with her husband, two daughters, and their hiking sheltie in Huntsville, Alabama. They continue their quest to summit every US high point, plan expedition canoe trips and wander on and off trails. A day-by-day online journal of my thru-hike and data collection on the Lone Star Hiking Trail is located at http://www.trailjournals.com/lonestar.
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Excellent resource for the LSHT hiker, extremely thorough. Recently used this book on a 4 day backpacking trip of the eastern half of the trail from four notch to the terminus.
Trail descriptions, landmarks and water sources were spot on. GPS locations for the parking lots also proved very helpful as some of the forest service roads wouldn't register in our car gps.
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Great book that reads really well.
Quite a bit of thought has been put into the guide so that it's equally valuable to the occasional day hiker all the way up to a thru-hiker. The maps along with the GPS coordinates and mile list descriptions are excellent. This guide really takes the guess work out of some of the more difficult to follow sections of the LSHT. Worth every penny.
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Absolutely excellent guide book!,
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Well I finished reading the guide book and I must say Karen Somers has done an
absolutely excellent job. The attention to detail in the nearly step by step description of the trail is wonderful. In fact on the sections that I have already hiked I could literally close my eyes and see exactly what was being described. I look forward to getting back out on the trail and hitting those few remaining areas that I now have a heads up on to compare. The utility of the book is also excellent. Identifying not only the key resource of water but workable campsites and the hand full of viable resupply points along the way is crucial to planning any long distance trek. I know I will use this in addition to my current system of maps to help my Boy Scouts plan their hiking and backpacking activities.
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