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[pct-l] guide books



For southern California, the guidebooks have useful water information in 
them that is hard to get out of the data book and non-existent in 
the maps.  The directions for following the trail are helpful 
at some places in SoCal, not much help in the Sierra.  I found all the 
geology information to be somewhat annoying, mostly because I couldn't 
decipher any of it. But, that is a personal matter.  The OR-WA 
guidebook is useful at times because it describes alot of route variants. 
I took a couple of them, at times for kicks, at times because I 
wanted to get out of the mosquito infested hell of central Oregon 
as quickly as I could.

On the whole, I found the guidebooks fairly accurate.  The main gripe I 
had was the authors' propensity to make a judgement as to the relative
difficulty of a section.  Again, though, this is personal preference.

Chris

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Judith Rush wrote:

>   If you have the data book and the maps you can download from hiker trash haven, do you still need the guide books ?
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