California Desert Byways

California Desert Byways
Author: Tony Huegel
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2006-12-21
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780899974132

Presents 65 desert trips from Bishop to the Mexican border, including expanded coverage of popular destinations such as Death Valley National Park, Mojave National Preserve, and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. This book makes high-walled canyons, lonely ghost towns, and soaring peaks from Mexico to the Great Basin easily accessible to recreational drivers. Tony Huegel's glove-box-sized Byways have been leading drivers to the hidden surprises found along unpaved backroads for more than 10 years. These books are for recreational drivers who want to use their four-wheel-drive or sport-utility vehicle beyond the pavement to explore, but who might not want to do hard-core or lengthy off-road driving. They are also for adventurers who use these trips as jumping-off points for muscle-powered exploration, such as hiking and mountain biking.

California Desert Byways

California Desert Byways
Author: Tony Huegel
Publisher: Wilderness Pr
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2002-03-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780899973043

These 60 routes take you to hot springs, ghost towns, and breathtaking desert landscapes. Visit the ancient bristlecone pines in the White-Inyo Range and look for bighorn sheep in Anza-Borrego Desert.

Sierra Nevada Byways

Sierra Nevada Byways
Author: Tony Huegel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2008
Genre: Transportation
ISBN:

From day trips to weekend getaways, the 51 tours in this trail-tested adventure guide take explorers from sky-scraping peaks overlooking Lake Tahoe to the cool forests of the southern Sierra and the pale washes of the Mojave Desert. Many are near secluded campsites and can be jumping-off points for hiking and mountain biking. All follow established roads through some of the wildest country in the West. With tours for drivers of every experience level, the updated edition covers the entire Sierra from Lake Tahoe to Sequoia National Forest as well as the Inyo and White Mountains, with tours in Eldorado, Humboldt-Toiyabe, Inyo, Plumas, Sierra, Stanislaus, and Tahoe national forests. Detailed descriptions are augmented with full-page photographs and two-color maps of each trip. With a field-friendly spiral binding and updated to include many GPS waypoints for each tour.

Earl Thollander's Back Roads of California

Earl Thollander's Back Roads of California
Author: Earl Thollander
Publisher:
Total Pages: 191
Release: 1994
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781570610097

Earl Thollander leads adventurers or armchair travelers to sights and pleasures off the beaten track, offering bits of local history, anecdotes, and scenic routes throughout the state. Featuring charming illustrations and hand-drawn maps. Also available are Back Roads of Washington and Back Roads of Oregon.

Roadside Geology of Southern California

Roadside Geology of Southern California
Author: Arthur G. Sylvester
Publisher: Roadside Geology
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780878426539

Since Mountain Press started the Roadside Geology series forty years ago, southern Californians have been waiting for an RG of their own. During those four decades�which were punctuated by jarring earthquakes and landslides�geologists continued to unravel the complexity of the Golden State, where some of the most dramatic and diverse geology in the world erupts, crashes, and collides. With dazzling color maps, diagrams, and photographs, Roadside Geology of Southern California takes advantage of this newfound knowledge, combining the latest science with accessible stories about the rocks and landscapes visible from winding two-lane byways as well as from the region�s vast network of highways. Join Arthur Sylvester, an award-winning UC Santa Barbara geologist, and Elizabeth O�Black Gans, a geologist-illustrator, as they motor through mountains and deserts to explore the iconic features of the SoCal landscape, from boulder piles in Joshua Tree National Park and brilliant white dunes in the Channel Islands to tar seeps along the rugged coast and youthful cinder cones in the Mojave Desert. Whether you want to find precious gemstones, ponder the mysteries of the Salton Sea, or straddle the boundary between the North American and Pacific Plates, be sure to bring this book along as your tour guide.

Desert Lore of Southern California

Desert Lore of Southern California
Author: Choral Pepper
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: California, Southern
ISBN: 9780932653260

Evoking the mystery and magic of southern California's desert, this collection of tales weaves fact and fancy into a tapestry of lost mines, Indian myths, historic vignettes, and legendary characters.

California Trails Desert Region

California Trails Desert Region
Author: Peter Massey
Publisher: Adler Publishing
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2006
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781930193208

This edition of our Trails series contains detailed backcountry trail information for 51 offroad routes located near the towns of Lone Pine (east), Panamint Springs, Death Valley area, Ridgecrest, Barstow, Baker and Blythe. NEW, full COLOR addition to our Trails series! These handy 6x9? books include scenic drives plus a whole lot more! Including some of America's best mountain biking, hiking, camping and fishing areas! Ghost towns galore? Step back into the past while wandering through abandoned mining areas, old buildings, and even entire towns. INCLUDES GPS coordinates throughout each book.

Desert Oracle

Desert Oracle
Author: Ken Layne
Publisher: MCD
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2020-12-08
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0374722382

The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.