John Muir Trail: The Essential Guide to Hiking America's Most Famous Trail

Wenk, Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 0899977367 / ISBN 13: 9780899977362

Published by Wilderness Press (edition Fifth), 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: John Muir Trail: The Essential Guide to Hiking America's Most Famous Trail
• Publisher: Wilderness Press (edition Fifth)
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0899977367
• ISBN 13: 9780899977362
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Fifth.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

This authoritative guide describes the 220-mile John Muir Trail, running from Yosemite Valley to the summit of Mt. Whitney.

About the Author

Since childhood, Elizabeth Wenk has hiked and climbed in the Sierra Nevada with her family. After she started college, she found excuses to spend every summer in the Sierra, with its beguiling landscape, abundant flowers, and near-perfect weather. During those summers, she worked as a research assistant for others and completed her own PhD thesis research on the effects of rock type on alpine plant distribution and physiology. But much of the time she hikes simply for leisure. Obsessively wanting to explore every bit of the Sierra, she has hiked thousands of on- and off-trail miles and climbed more than 600 peaks in the mountain range. Recently she has directed her wanderings to gather data for several Wilderness Press titles and to introduce her two young daughters to the wonders of the mountains. She lives in Sydney, Australia.