From the Library: Mountain Biking The Eastern Sierra's Best 100 Trails
I've already made mention, over the past few days, about the reliability of old guidebooks. For the most part the information seems to remain accurate. Keep in mind, though, that sometimes trail closures for various reasons may occur at the time a book was written. Have a backup plan in place.
This book may have one hundred trails listed, but I did not bother to count them, and since they are not numbered consecutively, I am simply taking the authors' word at face value. The trails range across a long swath of land, from Haiwee Reservoir in the south, to Topaz Lake on the Nevada state line in the north. Each section of the book includes a very basic map of trails and locations, though not useful for way finding on the trail. Each trail description includes mileage, elevations, level of difficulty, type of surfacing, seasons, nearby services and features along the route, and directions to the trailhead.
The book does what any good guidebook should do, and does it well - it introduces the rider to new places to ride, explore. So far I have only used it for trails in the June Lake area, but look forward to expanding into other areas of the Eastern Sierra in the future. Most of the trails are easily accessed from Highway 395, or one of the towns along its length. A good guidebook is one weapon in our arsenal, a means to find new places for riding, a means this one does well.
Hemingway-Douglass, Reanne, Mark Davis, and Don Douglass Mountain Biking The Eastern Sierra's Best 100 Trails Bishop, CA: Fine Edge Productions, 1997
This book may have one hundred trails listed, but I did not bother to count them, and since they are not numbered consecutively, I am simply taking the authors' word at face value. The trails range across a long swath of land, from Haiwee Reservoir in the south, to Topaz Lake on the Nevada state line in the north. Each section of the book includes a very basic map of trails and locations, though not useful for way finding on the trail. Each trail description includes mileage, elevations, level of difficulty, type of surfacing, seasons, nearby services and features along the route, and directions to the trailhead.
The book does what any good guidebook should do, and does it well - it introduces the rider to new places to ride, explore. So far I have only used it for trails in the June Lake area, but look forward to expanding into other areas of the Eastern Sierra in the future. Most of the trails are easily accessed from Highway 395, or one of the towns along its length. A good guidebook is one weapon in our arsenal, a means to find new places for riding, a means this one does well.
Hemingway-Douglass, Reanne, Mark Davis, and Don Douglass Mountain Biking The Eastern Sierra's Best 100 Trails Bishop, CA: Fine Edge Productions, 1997
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