Dream Hikes Coast to Coast: Your Guide to America’s Most by Jack Bennett

By Jack Bennett

Starting in April 2000, Jack Bennett logged hundreds of thousands of miles over seven years in his look for America’s top hikes. In Dream Hikes Coast to Coast, Bennett stocks how every one hike seemed and felt; what climate and animals have been encountered; and the emotional effect of each occasion and landscape. person hikes are followed by means of maps exhibiting the trailhead, routes, and topographic landmarks. tenting, accommodation, charges, and speak to details also are offered for every hike.

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In the distance to the west are the snowy ramparts of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the 14,494-foot summit of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States. Directly below is one of the most forbidding and contemptuous places in America—Death Valley. Because of extensive faulting in the valley, this vertical rise from Badwater at minus 282 feet to the 11,049-foot summit of Telescope Peak is one of the greatest in the United States. Not long after Tom picked me up, we were on our way up Wildrose Canyon on the east side of Death Valley National Park.

These maps are available on the Internet at a number of sites for affordable commercial and recreational use. Hike Description The description of the hike itself will be the most informative, and I hope the most interesting, part of this book. The hike description relates not only what I saw, experienced, and felt during my hike, but also what the next hiker is likely to encounter on that trail. Problems I experienced and lessons I learned, like my encounter with quicksand and flash flood on the trail to Keet Seel, will hopefully help to make the next hiker’s walk safer and more enjoyable.

Thousands of feet below, Badwater and Dantes View were shimmering in 115° F midday heat. The climb had taken us three-and-a-half hours, and we paused for a well-deserved lunch with a view. , tired but elated. In addition to one of the most unique and beautiful mountain vistas in the world, Telescope Peak had given me a whole new perspective on the austere and unforgiving Death Valley. 4 miles to return to Mahogany Flat Trailhead DIRECTIONS TO TRAILHEAD AND TRAIL ROUTE Telescope Peak Trailhead is located at the Mahogany Flat Campground past the Wildrose Charcoal Kilns.

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