[pct-l] guide books

[randy_forsland at hotmail.com (Randy Forsland)]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Willett" <chwillet@indiana.edu>
To: "Judith Rush" <crush@ptd.net>
Cc: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 5:10 AM
Subject: Re: [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 ?
> >
> >
Carl
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