Adventuring in the California Desert, Completely Revised and Updated
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It's big (100 miles wide by 240 miles long), it's diverse (granite peaks, extinct volcanoes, sand dunes, and more than 2,000 species of plants and 500 animals), and it makes for a wonderful, inexpensive vacation. The California desert offers bird watching and backpacking, high alpine snow fields and dry salt plains, and when the rains are adequate, miles of wildflowers that take your breath away. Lynne Foster's guide makes it accessible, with desert safety tips, maps, information about public campgrounds, historical sites, and desert museums, as well as useful information such as where to get food, water, and gas. From the White-Inyo Mountains, through Death Valley, Palm Springs, and Joshua Tree National Park, down to the Mexican border, the desert awaits, sere and stark, but not at all barren.
Book Description
Stretching south from the White-Inyo Mountains to the Mexican border and 275 miles east to west at its greatest width, the California desert is nearly the size of the state of Virginia. Within these 25 million acres are three of North America's major desert subregions as well as the largest national park in the Lower 48 states. Since the passage of the California Desert Protection Act, interest in the California desert is at an all-time high, swelling the number of visitors to more than 9 million each year.
Newly revised and updated, Adventuring in the California Desert offers detailed guidelines for enjoying the desert to the fullest without harming its fragile ecology. Activities include backpacking and rock climbing, as well as fossil identification, bird watching, and exploring Native American and pioneer historical sites. Special features include:
Information on day hikes, backpacking trips, and peak climbs, all classified by degree of difficulty
Detailed descriptions of each region's natural, geologic, and human history, plus plant and animal identification
Tips on desert safety and survival, weather conditions, clothing and equipment, and special requirements for car travel
Area maps, suggested tours, lists of public campgrounds and conservation organizations, and details for locating facilities for food, water, and gas
Adventuring in the California Desert, Completely Revised and Updated
Adventuring in the California Desert, Completely Revised and Updated,Lynne Foster,Sierra Club Books,0871563940,Automobile travel,California,Deserts,Guidebooks,Hiking,Travel,Travel - United States,United States - Pacific - California,United States - West - Pacific (General),Sports & Recreation / General,Travel & holiday guides,USA
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