The Trinity Alps Companion: Hiking Trails and Fishing Tales in the California Wilderness [Paperback]

Wayne F. Moss (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1997

Discover the Trinity Alps! Whether you seek mountaintops, solitude, or golden trout, the Trinity Alps have it all! Wayne Moss' forty years of experience in the Alps covers every mountain, lake, creek, and trail in this magnificent wilderness. State-of-the-art cartography will help you visualize and navigate the landscape. Trails, peaks, lakes, and many other features are identified. This book will help you enjoy all that this spectacular wilderness has to offer with special chapters on camping, fishing, and wilderness running.

Product Details

• Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: Ecopress (October 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963970534
• ISBN-13: 978-0963970534
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,969,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Guidebook for the Beautiful Trinity Alps, June 1, 2000

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Anthony S. Alpert (Weaverville, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Trinity Alps Companion: Hiking Trails and Fishing Tales in the California Wilderness (Paperback)

This is an incredible book by a person who has spent 40+ years traveling in the Alps. This isn't like other guidebooks that tell you where to hike, how long to spend at each destination, etc. As someone else said, this book is set up like an encyclopedia, divided into 7 sections of the Alps. Wayne tells you about each section. The sections contain information on each lake, trailhead, and mountain in that section. For example, in the Southeast Section, under Swift Creek Trailhead, you will find the way to get to the trailhead, the trails on the trailhead, the destinations (lakes, mountains, meadows, etc.), Elevation, Difficulty, and Summary. There are 15 or so destinations to pick from if you go to the Swift Creek Trailhead. In the same section, each lake, mountain, and meadow is described in detail.

I have used Wayne's book for three years. It has taken my family and me to some of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. It is also a very good read. I have read it cover to cover, and sometimes I read it in January or February as I'm dreaming of spending a weekend in the Alps. I just got it out last week and we have planned our first trip of the new year.

I have the added pleasure of knowing Wayne personally. He is the president of the board of directors of the non-profit public service organization I work for. He a great guy with great stories about the beautiful Trinity Alps.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Captures the Spirit of the Alps, September 17, 2000

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Gary Robertson (Junction City, Calif.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Trinity Alps Companion: Hiking Trails and Fishing Tales in the California Wilderness (Paperback)

Excellent, packed with practical, detailed, descriptive information--- but above and beyond this --- the book captures the "spirit" -- the essense of that special place beyond the edge of time --- the Trinity Alps Wilderness.

And by the way, I've backpacked the Alps heavily for more than a decade --- but if anyone knows the Alps better than the author, Wayne Moss, I've yet to meet that person.

I rarely endorse products, but give this book five stars!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Without a doubt: the definitive guide to the Trinity Alps, December 3, 1999

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Dave R. (Eureka, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Trinity Alps Companion: Hiking Trails and Fishing Tales in the California Wilderness (Paperback)

There are two guidebooks to the Trinity Alps, and this one is by far the better one. (Yes, I have both!)

The books exhaustively covers every last peak and lake and trailhead in the Alps. I had fun trying to find lakes that WEREN'T in the book. It's literally an encyclopedia, and has a format that I wish more guidebooks would use. Instead of listing trails by ease (or difficulty, if you prefer) and number of nights and so on, it rather lists features in the landscape (mountains, rivers, etc.) and cross-references them with the proper trailhead so that you can plan you own trip much more easily than by adapting someone else's itinerary to your own needs. Sure, he discusses the popular routes, but the book is laid out in more of an index format.

These features and organization alone make for a great guide, but this book is so much more than that. This is the first guide that I actually read cover to cover just because it was so INTERESTING. His sense of humor and wonder with world really come through in his writing -- he strikes me as a really enlightened individual and has done a wonderful job of blending the "hard facts" with his own perspectives, anecdotes, and history in the Trinity Alps. If only more people would write guidebooks like this one...