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The Sierra High Route: Traversing Timberline Country | 
 enlarge | Author: Steve Roper
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 62492
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0898865069
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.9440433
EAN: 9780898865066
ASIN: 0898865069
Publication Date: May 1997
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Condition: Ships from UK by express airmail, US buyers pay only US postage
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The Sierra High Route: Traversing Timberline Country March 8, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A FANTASTIC book about an awesome wilderness area! This is a must do hiking trail for me. I bought my brother this same book and I'm already planning our hike.
Wonderful off-trail hiking in the Sierra April 5, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is the ideal companion for everyone who likes walking off-trail on uneven terrain with a heavy pack. We used it last summer to hike a section of "the high route" (from devils postpile to tuolumne meadows) and it was so marvelous, we are going back this summer for another section. Roper gives exactly the amount of indications needed for a successful trip, although some experience in off-trail mountain-hiking is required. The high route is not trivial, even if no technical climbing is involved. The only thing: for most people it doesn't matter to have a single connected route. It would be nice to have other (shorter) routes in the same style, which are not necessarily connected. Maybe in another book? I don't know of anything comparable.
Great book for the strong willed November 28, 2000
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
My girlfriend and I recently took some of Ropers advice on a Mt. Conness Loop 5 day hike in Yosemite. It was an increadible trip. Roper gives just enough hints to get you there but few enough to make it still feel like exploring. Be advised however when he referes a section of your hike as 'adventurous' or 'exciting' he means it. We pushed ourselves to the physical and mental limit on this trip.
practical guide to an undescribable experience December 23, 1999
30 out of 30 found this review helpful
This book outlines a magnificent experience following an off-trail, higher version of the Muir Trail through the High Sierra. We have followed most of Roper's route over several years: sometimes we thought we were lost or overwhelmed, but it always turned out fine, and usually excellent. He treads a fine line between complete instructions that would allow no mistakes, and an experience that gives the hiker their own opportunity for route-finding, discovery, and growth. This is one of our favorite books, and we keep an intact copy plus another one torn apart for each journey and sometimes given away to people met along the way who need it. We still travel the trail some of the time, but genuinely value this alternative farther away from the crowds.
A good book October 14, 1999
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I made good use of this book to plan a wonderful cross-country trip in the Sierra. Roper was kind of vague at times, but I never got lost.The route he described was breath-taking. I intend to use this book to plan next summer's trip.
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