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Guide To Northern California Backroads & 4-Wheel Drive Trails [Paperback]

Charles A. Wells (Author)
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April 30, 2004
A clear, concise guide to northern California's remote backcountry. Book includes detailed directions with GPS waypoints, 85 custom maps and over 400 quality photos. All routes were driven by the author. Sport utility owners will enjoy 50 easy and moderate routes to incredible scenic backcountry locations. Serious 4-wheelers will love our difficult Jeep trails. We promote low-impact driving and environmental responsibility. For complete trail listing and a look inside the book visit the FunTreks website.

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I've been four wheeling in California for over 30 years. Your guide has shown me places to go I never knew existed. --Jon Aichele, President, Bakersfield Trailblazers

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  • Paperback: 286 pages
  • Publisher: Funtreks Inc (April 30, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0966497651
  • ISBN-13: 978-0966497656
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #89,174 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Charles A. Wells graduated from Ohio State University in 1969 with a degree in graphic design. After practicing design in Ohio, he moved to Colorado Springs in 1980 and worked 18 years in the printing business. Over the years, he and his family enjoyed a wide array of outdoor activities including hiking, biking, rafting and skiing. He bought an SUV in 1994 and immediately got addicted to exploring the backcountry. He later joined a four-wheel-drive club and learned more about hardcore four-wheeling.
Dissatisfied with the four-wheel-drive guidebooks on the market, he decided to write his own. His first book on Colorado sold well enough for him to leave his regular job to write full time. He presently has six SUV/Jeeping books on the market-two on Colorado, one on Moab, one on Arizona and two on California, visit www.funtreks.com. He also started down a new path with a brand new ATV book on Moab. More SUV and ATV books are planned.

 

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth Getting, March 9, 2007
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I'm a newbie off-roader, and have only driven one of the "easy" trails in my stock wrangler. It was a lot of fun, and the scenery was awesome, but I think I realized we weren't really off roading when we crossed paths with a brand new mustang convertible going in the other direction. At that point I figured I should take it out of 4wd-low.

So I think there's definitely something for everyone in this book. However, deciding on the right trail and actually driving to it are two different things. Some of my off roading plans fizzled out when I realized I had to drive 4 hours in each direction just to get to the trail I wanted! Living in the SF bay area, I was hoping to have more options within a reasonable day drive...but that's probably just naive of me.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, August 21, 2006
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I was a first time off-roader with my stock 06 Chevy truck. So far, I've driven 3 of the courses in the book, the descriptions are very accurate, the odometer settings are great and the GPS coordinates are very helpful. I won't be tackling any of the "Hard" courses and this guide spells out the difficulty level of each. Get this book!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Guide To Northern California Backroads & 4-Wheel Drive Trails, November 18, 2006
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I have had the opportunity to drive trails I know with Chuck Wells, and his books are well written and easy to follow. The trail rating he uses is juged on the roughest section of the trail, if a trail is moderate and has a difficult section that cannot be avoided it will receive a difficult rating. All the trails in his books have been driven by him and not judged by someone else.
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reset your odometer, great camp spot, reset odometer, trail description, trail measures, bear right uphill, shelf road, tight brush, dirt bike trails, rock crawling, forest map, lesser road, vault toilets, tow points, skid plates, right downhill, high ground clearance, tow strap, wilderness boundary, scenic ridge, camp spots, tight trees, modified vehicles, grid size, winch cable
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Trail Description, Waypoint Coordinates, Shaver Lake, Dinkey Creek, Lake Isabella, Gold Lake, Lake Tahoe, Jawbone Station, Mammoth Lakes, Bear Valley, Lone Pine, Poker Flat, California City, Lee Vining, Coyote Lake, Fordyce Creek, Sierra Buttes, Big Pine, Voyager Rock, White Bark Vista, Ellis Peak, John Muir Wilderness, Sierra City, Tahoe National Forest, Bald Mountain
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