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About John Muir Trail Data Book
Product Description JOHN MUIR TRAIL DATA BOOK Mileages, Campsites, Resupply Data, and Essential Trail Information for the Entire John Muir Trail, from Yosemite Valley to Mt. Whitney and onward to Whitney Portal Whether you’re hiking the entire John Muir Trail or just sections of it, the first step of the journey begins with this book by Sierra expert Elizabeth Wenk. This essential, cut-to-the-chase handbook to the 220-mile John Muir Trail, based on the comprehensive Wilderness Press guidebook John Muir Trail: The Essential Guide to Hiking America's Most Famous Trail, is packed with favorite features, including: Comprehensive table of campsites along the trail Elevation profiles for each section GPS coordinates for trail junctions ,ranger stations, and more Custom-made topo maps packed with relevant information Cumulative distances along the trail given for both southbound and northbound Pre-trip planning information about resupplies, transport, and permits Labeled panoramic photos Review A must consult while planning the thru-hike of the JMT. Minimize weight, travel lighter. --gilberto d'Urso, Mountain N' Air Books About the Author From childhood, Elizabeth “Lizzy” Wenk has hiked and climbed in the Sierra Nevada with her family. Since she started college, she has found excuses to spend every summer in the Sierra, with its beguiling landscape, abundant flowers, and near-perfect weather. One interest lies in biological research, and she worked first as a research assistant for others and then completed her own PhD thesis research on the effects of rock type on alpine plant distribution and physiology. However, much of the time, she hikes simply for leisure. Obsessively wanting to explore every bit of the Sierra, she has hiked thousands of on- and off-trail miles and climbed more than 600 peaks in the mountain range. Many of her wanderings are now directed to gather data for several Wilderness Press titles and to introduce her two young daughters to the wonders of the mountains. For them as well, the Sierra, and especially Yosemite, has become a favorite location. Although she will forever consider Bishop, California, home, Wenk is currently living in Sydney, Australia, with her husband, Douglas, and daughters, Eleanor and Sophia. There she is working as a research fellow at Macquarie University and enjoying Australia’s exquisite eucalyptus forests, vegetated slot canyons, and wonderful birdlife―except during the Northern Hemisphere summer, which she continues to spend exploring the Sierra. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. INTRODUCTION The John Muir Trail (or, more simply, the JMT) is one of the world’s premier long-distance hiking trails. A little more than 220 miles in length, it traverses the spine of California’s Sierra Nevada, passing through superb mountain scenery. This is a land of 13,000- and 14,000-foot peaks, of soaring granite cliffs, of lakes by the thousands, and of canyons 5,000 feet deep. The trail passes near roads only in Tuolumne Meadows and Devils Postpile, otherwise winding through remote mountain landscape. Part of the beauty of this long-distance walk is that the landscape continually changes as you travel from Happy Isles (in eastern Yosemite Valley) to Whitney Portal (west of the town of Lone Pine, in the Owens Valley). Each day you will find new wonders to captivate your attention―rounded domes in Tuolumne Meadows, volcanic features near Devils Postpile, magical hemlock forests near Silver Pass, dashing cascades along Bear Creek, the glacial landscape of Evolution Basin, the near-vertical peaks of the Palisades, carpets of alpine flowers around Pinchot Pass, spectacular lake basins such as the Rae Lakes, scattered foxtail pines on Bighorn Plateau, and of course the views from the summit of Mt. Whitney, California’s tallest peak. The Sierra is an especially lovely area for a multi-week hike, for it is blessed with the mildest, sunniest climate of any major mountain
