[pct-l] new resources for section and day hikers

[Jeffrey Olson]

Just curious - what is a title, or the author's first name for the "Semb 
books?"

Thanks...

Jeff, Laramie, WY


On 11/27/2016 7:55 PM, David Hough reading PCT-L wrote:
> For through hikers the big issue is the resupply.    For section hikers,
> it's the car shuttle.
>
> Today I started reorganizing my website pcnst.oakapple.net to incorporate
> my next project, supplemental information for the Semb books
> to update them, and to add suggested
> backpacking trips to fill in the gaps that can't be dayhiked.
>
> For those of you that weren't prescient enough to buy the Semb books when
> they were in print 15 years ago, you should know that they provide detailed
> driving instructions for all the back roads that you need to know about
> to dayhike ALL the dayhikable PCT, and almost all the information is still
> good.      That's what I'm looking for in newer books.
>
> Step one for my website
> was cleaning out dead links including the PCTA store, which has a new
> URL, and checking that out I found that there are some new books published
> by the Mountaineers that might render my whole project unnecessary.
> Maybe everybody else knows about these, but they were news to me:
>
> https://shop.pcta.org/publications/books/hiking-the-pacific-crest-trail-washington-section-hiking-from-the-columbia-river-to-manning-park
>
> https://shop.pcta.org/publications/books/hiking-the-pacific-crest-trail-oregon-section-hiking-from-donomore-pass-to-bridge-of-the-gods
>
> The URL's are self-explanatory.    I will
> see if they would have sufficed when I needed them,
> in lieu of the Semb books.    But they seem to be out of stock at the
> PCTA store.
>
> The Mountaineers own web site implies that the series will eventually cover
> California too.    The Washington volume was published in September
> and the Oregon volume is currently out of stock there too.
>
> The PCTA store also has, from March 2014,
>
> https://shop.pcta.org/publications/books/day-hikes-and-overnights-on-the-pacific-crest-trail-southern-california-from-the-mexican-border-to-los-angeles-county-marlise-kast-myers
>
> I can't tell if it covers all of Southern California up to LA county
> or just parts.
>
> By the way, the "Day & Section Hikes" series published by Wilderness Press
> several years ago is NOT a substitute for the Semb books - they don't cover
> the whole dayhikable trail, just highlights.
>
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