Hiking Northern California

by Bubba Suess

Overview

Hiking Northern California, the revised edition, will be fully revised and updated. Northern California has 80-plus diverse hikes throughout the northern two-thirds of the Golden State, from the Oregon border to the Southern Sierras. This guidebook features more than 600 miles of trails, accurate and up-to-date trail maps, and all the information you need for planning enjoyable outings year-round. Hikes include short, leisurely strolls and demanding days-long excursions, from well-graded trails to rugged, cross-country scrambles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493002719
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	07/01/2017
Series:	Regional Hiking Series
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

A native of Sonoma County in California’s wine country, Christopher "Bubba" Suess grew up hiking the trails on his home turf as well as those in the famed Sierra Nevada. His first backpacking trip at age five sparked a love affair with granite and rushing water. Deeply influenced by his parents to appreciate the outdoors and by his older brother to always strive and persevere, Bubba was further moved to value the conservation of wilderness during his time in the Boy Scouts. A four year sojourn in Texas for graduate school forced Bubba to find beauty in more subtle places and areas that are generally overlooked. Now a resident of Mount Shasta in far northern California, he loves living a rural life, centered around time spent with his wife, Harmony, and three children.

Table of Contents

Meet Your Guide viii

Acknowledgments viii

Before You Hit the Trail xvii

South Coast Range

1 Ewoldsen Trail/McWay Falls 2

2 Pfeiffer Falls 6

3 Andrew Molera State Park 10

4 Pinnacles 15

5 Big Basin 20

6 Sunol Regional Wilderness 26

7 Mount Diablo Grand Loop 31

North Coast Range

8 Alamere Falls 38

9 Sonoma Coast 43

10 Palisades (Napa Valley) 48

11 Snow Mountain 54

12 Russian Gulch 59

13 Lost Coast 63

14 James Irvine Trail/Fern Canyon 68

15 Boy Scout Tree 74

Klamath Mountains

16 Devil's Punchbowl 80

17 North Yolla Bolly Mountains 85

18 Canyon Creek 91

19 Bear Lakes 98

20 Gulch Lakes Loop 103

21 Taylor and Hogan Lakes 108

22 Shackleford Basin 113

23 Mount Eddy 118

24 Heart Lake 124

Cascades

25 South Gate Meadow 130

26 McCloud River Fails 136

27 Lava Beds 141

28 Pine Creek Basin/Patterson Lake 146

29 Susan River 152

30 Thousand Lakes Wilderness 157

31 Lassen Peak 162

32 Warner Valley 166

33 Butte Lake-Snag Lake Loop 171

34 Caribou Wilderness 177

Sacramento Valley

35 Iron Canyon 184

36 Orland Buttes 188

Northern Sierra

37 Independence Trail-Jones Hole Loop 194

38 Feather Falls 199

39 Bucks Lake Wilderness 204

40 Frazier Falls 208

41 Lakes Basin 212

42 Sierra Buttes 217

43 Glacier Lake 224

44 Five Lakes Basin 229

45 Rubicon Trail 233

46 Twin Lakes (Desolation Wilderness) 238

47 Desolation Valley 242

Central Sierra

48 Meiss Meadow/Showers Lake 250

49 Round Top Loop 256

50 Wheeler Lake 261

51 Noble Lake 265

52 Sword Lake 269

53 Burst Rock and Lake Valley 274

54 Blue Canyon 279

55 Sardine Falls 285

56 Leavitt Meadow Loop 289

Western Sierra

57 Hetch Hetchy 296

58 Panorama Trail 302

59 Tuolumne River to Glen Aulin 310

60 Gaylor Lakes 316

61 San Joaquin River Gorge 321

62 Twin Lakes (Kaiser Wilderness) 326

63 Dinkey Lakes 331

64 Redwood Mountain Loop 337

65 Weaver Lake 343

66 Mist Falls 347

67 Tokopah Valley 353

68 White Chief Basin 358

Eastern Sierra

69 Green Creek Basin 366

70 Lundy Canyon 371

71 Devils Postpile/Rainbow Falls 375

72 Thousand Island Lake 380

73 Duck Lake Pass 388

74 Convict Canyon 393

75 Little Lakes Valley 399

76 Sabrina Basin 404

77 Cloudripper Loop 411

78 Kearsarge Pass 417

79 Cottonwood Lakes 423

80 Alabama Hills 428

Local Trail Finder 434

Hike Index 438