$10.47

Mount Whitney - The Complete Trailhead-To-Summit Hiking Guide 

by Paul Richins, Jr.

Excellent, well-researched route descriptions and planning information make this guide an exceptional resource. A section on what to expect covers weather, high-altitude problems, hydration, and the wildlife you might encounter along the way. Trip-planning tips, plus information on wilderness permits and regulations, thoroughly prepare hikers for any kind of outing, from a one-day ascent to a week-long backpack to a night climb.

Mount Whitney - Hiking and Climbing

Mount Whitney the Complete Trailhead-to-Summit Hiking Guide by Paul Richins Jr.

Offers a full range of options for every kind of hiker, novice to experienced

Covers 13 routes to the summit, from a one-day ascent to a week-long backpack

Includes route descriptions for five other 14,000+ footers-Langley, Russell, Muir, Tyndall, and Williamson

Approx Price: $10.47

Mount Whitney Guide for Hikers and Climbers by Paul Hellweg

The Mount Whitney Guide for Hikers and Climbers is the most detailed, complete, and up-to-date guidebook available for the mountain.

Approx Price: $7.95 (Out of print)

Climbing Mount Whitney - by Glen Dawson, Forward by Peter Croft

Includes technical climbs for Whitney & Russell. The famed Glen Dawson does the Introduction. An essay, Up the East Face, is by Norman Clyde. Photos by Dan Patitucci, Galen Rowell, Peter Croft, Andy Selters, & John Moynier. Includes technica lclimbs, day hikes, alternate trails, cross-country routes.

Approx Price: $13.95

High Sierra Hiking Guide to Mt Whitney (Map)

This quadrangle contains the climax of the High Sierra, with 5 peaks over 14,000'. The hikes in this book are best done as backpacks. Includes Mt. Whitney map.

Approx Price: TBD (Out of print)

Guide to the John Muir Trail by Winnett & Morey

Here's the best guide to this 211-mile hiking wonderland. The John Muir Trail passes through a land of 13- and 14,000-foot peaks, deep canyons, massive granite walls, and sparkling lakes. 28 2-color maps are based on USGS topo maps.

Approx Price: $11.95

Climbing California's Fourteeners by Stephen Porcella, Cameron M. Burns

This guide offers 183 routes to California's 15 highest peaks; it also provides multiple route options, difficulty, and recommended gear

Approx Price: $13.57

High Sierra by R.J. Secor

The comprehensive guide to the High Sierra in California covering all known routes on more than 570 peaks; updated with more than 80 new routes

Approx Price: $19.77

Sierra North by Jason Winnett

Guide provides all the information you'll need for planning an overnight trip to two-week backcountry excursions in the southern Sierra. Desolation Wilderness, Emigrant Wilderness, the proposed Castle Peak Wilderness, and the world-famous Yosemite National Park.

Approx Price: $12.89

Sierra South by Jason Winnett

Guide provides all the information you'll need for planning an overnight trip to two-week backcountry excursions in the southern Sierra. Showcases Mt. Whitney, the Kings-Kern Divide, the Sierra crest, the high country of Kings Canyon National Park and the John Muir Wilderness

Approx Price: $12.21

Trekking - General

Classic Treks by Bill Birkett, Chuck McGrady

200+ color photos, maps. A stunning presentation of 30 great hikes around the world, on all continents. Written by a team of experienced guides who have hiked each of the featured treks

Approx Price: $21.99

Trekking by David Noland

Colorful narratives and stunning photographs capture the most spectacular trekking destinations on the planet.

Approx Price: $14.28

Snow Sense by Jill A. Fredston, Doug Fesler

A comprehensive guide to evaluating avalanche hazards and choosing safe routes; includes avalanche rescue information.

Approx Price: $8.95

A Comprehensive Guide to Wilderness and Travel Medicine by Eric Weiss

Handy pocket size guide to wilderness and travel medicine provides comprehensive and current first aid techniques for the outdoors.

Approx Price: $6.95 (Out of print)

Altitude Illness: Prevention & Treatment by Stephen Bezruchka

A pocket reference to both preventing and the treatment of altitude sickness. Travelers to high altitudes will devour this little book, dedicated "To all those who have died of altitude sickness."

Approx Price: $8.95