The Getaway Guide to the John Muir Trail (Getaway Guides) - Softcover

Guy T. Saperstein

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9781571430984: The Getaway Guide to the John Muir Trail (Getaway Guides)

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ISBN 10: 1571430989 ISBN 13: 9781571430984

Publisher: RDR Books, 2005

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The John Muir Trail, the most popular long-distance trekking trail in the West, runs from California’s Yosemite National Park through 211 miles of roadless wilderness to Kings Canyon and Sequoia national parks. Along the way lie challenging mountain passes, hundreds of lakes and streams, and the most magnificent alpine scenery imaginable, climaxing with an ascent of 14,494-foot Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the continental United States. Guy Saperstein’s 25-year-old son Jacobus invited him on a month-long hike along the entire length of the John Muir Trail just before Guy’s 60th birthday. The trip was to be the realization of a lifelong dream. A prominent attorney, Guy served on the board of the Sierra Club Foundation. It was the Sierra Club’s founder, John Muir, who had originally explored the spectacular High Sierra landscape, and the trail was established in Muir’s honor shortly after his death in 1914. But could an older guy with a desk job actually survive a solid month of backpacking and mountain climbing? The Getaway Guide to the John Muir Trail contains Guy Saperstein’s account of the father-and-son trek and the colorful characters they meet along the way, as well as detailed advice on planning, equipment, food and everything that neophytes and experienced hikers alike need to know to undertake part or all of this high country journey for themselves. Written with panache and humor, the book is an insiration to hikers of all ages. The Getaway Guide to the John Muir Trail is the first in a new series of Getaway Guides to great American trails from RDR Books.

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Considered by some to be the greatest long hike in America, the John Muir Trail is blessed by great scenery, good weather and a well kept route ideal for hikers of all ages. It's a long route and if you can't do it all in one trip, this book will make it possible for you to hike it in sections. Beautiful color photos will tempt you to get up and leave your day job for the journey of a lifetime. But before you head for the hills, prepare with Saperstein's meticulous information on getting ready to hike the JMT. Well informed and written with a sense of humor, the book's journal of the hike offers a day by day account of what you can expect on this wonderful route. Join Guy Saperstein for the journey of a lifetime.

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"Everything we needed on the trail was contained in two backpacks. The daily excitement of seeing and doing things along the trail I didn't expect - a beautiful cascade and an unplanned swim, an inviting meadow not shown on the topographical map, an approachable deer, a soaring hawk, a shallow lake in the subtle shades of greens and blues, the sun reflected in water like thousands of twinkling Christmas lights, the alpenglow of sunset lighting high peaks and floating clouds, a quiet campsite in an alpine basin with views of a 13,000-foot granite rock wall reflected in a lake. Telling this to my friends Bill and Jose, they both say excatly the same thing. "You touched the Tao.'"

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