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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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