[pct-l] Trail Guide and Data Book Recommendations for the JMT

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The classic guide is Starr's Guide to the JMT and High Sierra Region,
last published in 1982. It was a great guide book in that it just said
where the trail went. As to the scenery you would experience it yourself
without anyone telling you if it was awe-inspiring or simply nice. It
also didn't tell you that this spot had igneous gluteus rocks or at that
spot you would find lots of mosquitoes on one day in July. 

Now that it is out of print, the most common guide is published by
Wilderness Press, with Kathy Morey as one of the authors. It is a little
more descriptive, but does include topo map segments and a one-page data
sheet, or at least my 3rd edition does, not sure about the 4th edition
published in 2007.

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