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Day and Overnight Hikes: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Paperback – January 4, 2007

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Anza Borrego Desert State Park is the largest desert park in the United States, drawing approximately 650,000 visitors per year. Combining detailed narrative with GPS-based trail maps, Day and Overnight Hikes: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park breaks down the best of the best hikes, both day and overnight. Whether it’s the best view over Culp Valley, a walk through Hellhole Canyon, or a flat walk through hills and dales near the Salton Sea, Day and Overnight Hikes is the definitive go-to guide to enjoy the largest desert park in the United States, just an hour’s drive from San Diego.

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192 pages
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Menasha Ridge Press
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January 4, 2007
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5 x 0.5 x 7 inches
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0897329716
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978-0897329712
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...easy to use, extremely well organized, and full of vital information for anyone interested in hiking this magical desert park. -- Southwest Blend Magazine

This is easily the most comprehensive and authoritative hiking guide to date on the sprawling Anza-Borrego Desert. -- Annette McGivney, Southwest Editor for Backpacker Magazine

This is the most comprehensive and authoritative hiking guide to date on the sprawling Anza-Borrego Desert. -- Annette McGivney, Southwest Editor for Backpacker Magazine

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Anza Borrego Desert State Park is the largest desert park in the United States, drawing approximately 650,000 visitors per year. Choosing the best day and overnight hikes within Anza Borrego’s 600,000 acres is a major undertaking. But whether you’re out to spot endangered bighorn sheep, revel in the spring flower show, or seek out desert waterfalls, author Sheri McGregor has got you covered.

Each Day and Overnight Hike contains four key elements to help you plan and enjoy the perfect day or overnight:
GPS-Based Trail Maps
GPS-Based Elevation Profiles
Directions to the Trailhead
Trail Descriptions
Each trail description offers precise commentary on what to expect along the way and rates each hike for
SceneryTrail Condition
Difficulty
Accessibility for Children
SolitudeDesigned to fit easily into a back pocket, this guide leads hikers and backpackers to sites of exceptional beauty and solitude. Whether it’s the best view over Culp Valley, a walk through Hellhole Canyon, or a flat walk through hills and dales near the Salton Sea, let Day and Overnight Hikes help you discover the best that Anza Borrego Desert State Parkhas to offer.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Menasha Ridge Press; 1st edition (January 4, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0897329716
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0897329712
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.5 x 7 inches

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Sheri McGregor knows firsthand the courage, resourcefulness, and determination it takes to reclaim identity and self-confidence. One of her five adult children disengaged from the family, which set her on a quest to find answers, foster happiness, and help other parents of estranged children heal. In late 2013, she founded https://www.rejectedparents.net where she writes regularly and connects with hurting parents from around the world.

McGregor holds a bachelor's degree in psychology, a master's degree in human behavior, and has recently completed two years toward a doctorate degree in psychology. She works as a life coach and has served on the advisory board for National University's College of Letters and Sciences. Her long career as a writer includes articles on psychology, health, and a variety of other topics, which have appeared in dozens of national and international publications. She has also written for anthologies, websites, and organizations including the non-profit Families for Depression Awareness. Sheri McGregor has been a repeat guest on a San Diego FOX Television affiliate, on KUSI TV, and on a variety of radio shows and podcasts. Her quotes and books have appeared or been featured in publications and at sites including, among others, CNN, HuffPost, Ask Ellie, Good Housekeeping, AARP, The Saturday Evening Post, Vanity Fair, PsychCentral, Self Help Daily, The Star, Portsmouth Daily Times, Great Senior Living, and Considerable.

Sheri McGregor has become a powerful voice for the parents of estranged adult children. Her highly regarded book Done With The Crying: Help and Healing for Mothers of Estranged Adult Children helps parents break free from emotional pain and move forward in their own lives. As of this date, approximately 60,000 copies are in circulation, and in 2019, an accompanying workbook was released for repeat readers or those using the e-book or audiobook. Done With The Crying was a Foreword Reviews Finalist and a winner of a Living Now Book Award. McGregor’s latest offering, Beyond Done With The Crying: More Answers and Advice for Parents of Estranged Adult Children is a must-have for those enduring this unique sorrow.

Sheri McGregor loves to hike, is inspired by nature, and is grateful for every moment. She has recently brought her love for gardening to houseplants and may soon be writing from an indoor jungle.

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Fritz R. Ward

Don't Judge a book by its Cover: A guide to Rugged Desert Adventure

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 4, 2007

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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is one of pre-eminent outdoor recreation sites in Southern California. It is the largest state park in California and offers lots of recreational opportunities including off road vehicle travel, numerous nature walks, wildlife and (in season) spectacular flower blooms. For this reason it is a very popular winter and spring destination and many guidebooks and maps can lead visitors to some of its many charms.

What sets this book by Sheri McGregor apart from the others is that this one focuses on long overland desert trips, many of which require a four-wheel drive or high-clearance vehicle to access. Some classic shorter hikes are also included. The trip up Ghost Mountain where poet Marshall South used to live is included as is the Borrego Canyon Nature Trail. But the bulk of the book is devoted to long loops up desert canyons with little in the way of trail tread and even less in the way of fellow hikers. Readers, and those daring enough to try these hikes, will be treated to a pine forest (hardly typical desert fare) atop Whale Peak and a hidden Palm oasis in Flat Cat Canyon, a mere 5 miles but 5 - 7 hour round trip hike. You will want to be in good shape to attempt these hikes.

The book does have a number of virtues. Each hike includes a decent sketch map and an elevation profile. Directions to trailheads are adequate and are GPS compatible. There is a nice appendix listing local outdoor shops and hiking clubs. On the whole, this is a decent book, but as noted in my review title, don't judge this book by its cover. The picture on the front shows a hiker walking a flat trail through a dense deciduous forest. You will find precious little of that in Anza-Borrego. But if you want to discover remote destinations and solitude, and are willing to work for it, this is the book for you.

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Lori Hall-McNary

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 3, 2016

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This an up to date book for all hikers and sight-seers of the Anza-Borrego Desert. A must have.

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S Tusson-McNeil

A couple of avid Borrego Spring hikers and campers highly recommend this guide book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 23, 2015

My husband and I are avid hikers, in fact we were married 15 years ago at the top of Mount Whitney. During much of the year (with the exception of summer months) we spend a lot of time in Borrego Springs camping. It is one of our favorite places to go. We so appreciate the thoughtfulness which went into this guide book's lay-out and design. The maps are helpful and we especially like the categories such as, "Best Hikes for Wildflowers" and "Best Hikes for Solitude." The precautions and tips in the introduction are great reminders for safety and it provides a nice overview of the park. One of our favorite places in the guide book is Blair Valley with the Mortreros, Pictograph Trail, and Ghost Mountain (our favorite because the historical references of the family who once lived there are fascinating)! We like the detailed profiles and star system - which at a quick glance gives us vital information. The author even provides GPS coordinates and Easting and Northing numbers (which we haven't referred to). In our 15 years of exploring Borrego Springs we thought we'd covered much of the territory. Day and Overnight Hikes: Anza-Borrego Desert has provided us a plethora of new hikes to experience with varying challenge levels, along with very detailed and helpful descriptions for navigation and personal interest. With Borrego Springs being the largest desert state park in the contiguous United States, we may not conquer all of these trails in our lifetimes. We highly recommend this guide book for sparking our interest in exploring many new rugged, desert pathways.

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Scott Macy

Easy to Use Trail Descriptions

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 24, 2020

My wife picked this book out of several at the Anza-Borrego visitor center last year because it had the easiest to use trail descriptions, ratings, and concise maps for each trail. Even though we've been to A-B several times, this book guided us to new, great places.

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Great if you like getting lost

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 16, 2012

We purchased this book due to the variety of different hikes, the useful trail rating system, and the elevation map for each trail. These are all very nice.

However, after trying to complete the Rainbow Canyon Loop this past weekend, we realized the author fails to mention when you're going off-trail, connecting two (or more) disparate trails with sections of wandering aimlessly through trail-less brush for distances of up to a mile.

It's perfectly reasonable to hike off-trail in Anza-Borrego, but the guide should mention this in the description of the hike, especially if the distance of off-trail hiking is long (up to a mile).

Previously, we had problems with her Hellhole Canyon to Maidenhair Falls trail guide, also in this book.

PROS:
1) Good ratings of the trails.
2) Elevation map for the entirety of each trail.
3) Good variety of hikes, including many which do not require a 4WD vehicle or going off-road.

CONS:
1) The driving directions, mini-maps, and locations of trailheads are not descriptive enough, and often are incorrect. For example, for the Rainbow Canyon trailhead the author says "go just south of mile marker 27", where another, better guide says "the trailhead is at 27.6 miles."
2) The descriptions of the trail are not very informative (in general), with distances between sections not listed, vague descriptions on where to go, and too much time spent on describing wildflowers and coyote scat. For example, in the Rainbow Canyon Loop, the author mentions in the book that you need to climb several dry waterfalls that may require handholds, where the actual trail is climbing several 15-20 foot sheer rock faces that definitely require using your hands.
3) The author connects several separate trails together, with long off-trail sections, to increase the number of longer hikes in the book, but these are not actual trails.

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