Sierra High Route - 2nd Edition by Steve Roper (Paperback)

About the Book

The only guidebook to California's Sierra High Route.

Book Synopsis

* Author conceived and pioneered the Sierra High Route
* Covers Kings Canyon National Park to northern Yosemite National Park
* Each route chapter includes points of interest, maps, approach instructions, and directions

No ordinary guidebook, Sierra High Route leads you from point to point through a spectacular 195-mile timberline route in California's High Sierra. The route follows a general direction but no particular trail, thus causing little or no impact and allowing hikers to experience the beautiful sub-alpine region of the High Sierra in a unique way.

With access points noted along the way, the route can be broken into week-long segments, and hikers can choose segments for their skill level. Each of the five route chapters includes an overview highlighting geographical and historical points of interest, maps, difficulty ratings, approach instructions, safety considerations, directions, alternate routes, and accessible non-technical climbs.

Review Quotes

No other range in the world can equal the High Sierra for ease of cross-country travel, and no other author can equal Steve Roper for prose based upon half a century of Sierra experience that flows with the sparkle and clarity of a mountain stream.-- "Galen Rowell, wilderness photographer and author"

Roper knows the Range of Light like few others. His High Route is a vision born of over forty years' exploration, offering the reader the wilderness trek of a lifetime: a 105-mile traverse of the range, all of it above 9.000 feet, passing hundreds of laks, skirting 14,000-foot peaks, and favoring cross-country travel over the humdrum of maintained trails.-- "B>American Alpine Journal"