Moon California Hiking

MOON CALIFORNIA Hiking
The Complete Guide to 1,000 of the Best Hikes in the Golden State

Pack a lunch, lace up your boots, and head out to discover the best hiking trails in California. Whether you're in search of a kid-friendly walk or a day-long adventure, you'll find the perfect hike among the choices selected by outdoors experts Tom Stienstra and Ann Marie Brown. From coastal strollls on Catalina Island to challenging trkes through the Sierra Nevada mountains, there's a hike in this book for you.

Features include:
• Descriptions of trails ranging from easy day hikes to multi-day backpacking trips with advice on nearby camping
• Best Hikes lists, including Best for Waterfalls and Best Hikes with a View
• Essential planning details, including round-trip distance and hiking time, ratings for trail difficulty and scenic beauty, and user group access
• Easy-to-follow maps, driving directions to each trailhead, and details on where to park.

8th Edition
Tom Stienstra & Ann Marie Brown
ISBN 1-56691-832-4
ISBN-13 978-1-56691-832-9
$24.95
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS TOM STIENSTRA & ANN MARIE BROWN

Moon California Camping author Tom Stienstra

For 30 years, Tom Stienstra’s full-time job has been to capture and communicate the outdoor experience. This has led him across California—hiking, boating, fishing, camping, biking, and flying—searching for the best of the outdoors and then writing about it.

Tom is the nation’s top-selling author of outdoors guidebooks. He has been inducted into the California Outdoor Hall of Fame and has twice been awarded National Outdoor Writer of the Year, newspaper division, by the Outdoor Writers Association of America. He has also been named California Outdoor Writer of the Year five times, most recently in 2007. Tom is the outdoors columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle his articles also appear on www.SFGate.com and in newspapers around the country. He broadcasts a weekly radio show on KCBS-San Francisco and hosts an outdoor television show on CBS/CW San Francisco.

Tom lives with his wife and sons in Northern California. You can contact him directly via the website www.tomstienstra.com. His other titles include:

Moon California Camping
Moon California Hiking
Moon California Fishing
Moon California Recreational Lakes and Rivers
Moon Northern California Cabins & Cottages
Moon Northern California Camping
Moon Oregon Camping
Moon Pacific Northwest Camping
Moon Washington Camping
Moon West Coast RV Camping

The author of 13 outdoor guidebooks, Ann Marie Brown is a dedicated California outdoorswoman. She hikes, bikes, and camps more than 150 days each year in a dedicated effort to avoid routine, complacency, and getting a real job.

Ann Marie's work has appeared in Sunset, VIA, Backpacker, and California magazines. As a way of giving back a little of what she gets from her experiences in nature, she writes and edits for several environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council. When not traipsing along a California trail, Ann Marie can be found at her home near Yosemite National Park.

For more information on these titles, visit Ann Marie's website, www.annmariebrown.com.

Other travel guides authored by Ann Marie Brown:

Moon Bay Area Biking
Moon Northern California Biking
Moon Tahoe
Moon Take A Hike Los Angeles
Moon Yosemite