By Mike White
Eventually there's a definitive guidebook for the significant and fantastically mysterious hikers' paradise referred to as the Redwood Coast of Northern California. during this new name within the best Trails sequence, veteran outdoor writer Mike White leads day-trippers and backpackers into essentially the most awe-inspiring terrain on the earth. step by step in his trail-worn boots, the writer created a menu of fifty seven different routes, from a gradual half-mile morning loop to a 29-mile backpacking experience. Winding via Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte counties, he courses readers into this panorama of lush, old-growth redwoods; picture-postcard vistas to Pacific Ocean sea stacks; winding descents to undisturbed shorelines and enchanting tide-pool existence; pathways to inland canyons; and untamed desolate tract shy on people yet boisterous with herds of Roosevelt elk. For readers able to hit the path, this is often the can't-do-without advisor and for armchair tourists, it's fifty seven trips into wonderland.
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