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"Thoroughly updated and revised, this four-season guide features over 100 of the best hikes from every quarter of the Sierra Nevada range, geared to differing levels of skill and experience"--
"Thoroughly updated and revised, this four-season guide features over 100 of the best hikes from every quarter of the Sierra Nevada range, geared to differing levels of skill and experience. From foothill to desert, deep canyon to alpine mountaintop, author...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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From choosing the best gear to learning practical navigation skills, this guide for current Scouts, Scout alumni, and readers interested in the outdoors provides time-tested advice on hiking and backpacking in the wilderness.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Nonfiction
NYT - Travel
Oprah's Book Club
Read-Alikes for 'I'm Glad My Mom Died'
NYT - Travel
Oprah's Book Club
Read-Alikes for 'I'm Glad My Mom Died'
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Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.
8) On trails
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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An exploration of the role of trails in shaping culture, order, and history draws on the author's travels and findings in myriad disciplines while considering examples ranging from ant trails and continental hiking paths to interstate highways and the Internet.
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Wilderness Press
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English
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Backpacking Nevada, the ultimate guide to backpacking trips in Nevada's basin and range, has 23 trips ranging from two days to two weeks. From the East Humboldt Wilderness to the Ruby Mountains and the Toiyabe Range, this guide describes the finest backpacking adventures in Nevada. Few people are aware of the vast expanse of natural beauty that lies outside the dizzying atmosphere of Nevada's Las Vegas and Reno metro areas. Venture outside the strip...
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Createspace Independent Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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The Hot Springs Trail Official Guidebook: The Hot Springs Trail is an original 2,421.4-mile backpacking route, connecting sacred places with healing waters. This incredible thru-soaking journey begins on the Pacific Ocean, in the paradise town of Santa Barbara, California. It then visits more than 90 wild or resort hot spring areas before reaching Canada. Between these rejuvenating springs is an abundance of lakes, historic resupply towns, established...
12) Dear Yeti
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Told through a series of notes, two boys go on a hike hoping to find Yeti but run into trouble along the way.
16) Treasuretastic
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"When Pinkalicious and Peter play treasure hunters on the family hike, what they find is even better than what they expected--it's treasuretastic!"--
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[Jack Perk]
Pub. Date
[2020?]
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English
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"The Tahoe Rim Trail is an a hundred sixty five-mile (266 km) long-distance hiking path that bureaucracy a loop around the Lake Tahoe Basin inside the Sierra Nevada and Carson stages of California and Nevada inside the United States. [1] The path degrees in elevation from 6,240 ft (1,900 m) at the outlet of Lake Tahoe to ten,338 ft (3,151 m) at Relay Peak in Nevada. About 50 miles (80 km) of trail above the lake's west shore are also part of the a...
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Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"In this easy to use, informative, and occasionally eccentric guidebook, David A. Steinberg blazes the trail to more than twenty-five unusual landmarks and hard-to-find destinations that are mostly within a two-hour drive of New York City. Suitable for the experienced hiker or camping adventurer--as well as anyone that has the desire to explore--Hiking the Road to Ruins has been updated to include detailed directions and GPS coordinates to specific...
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