[pct-l] new resources for section and day hikers

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George Semb , see www.ABE.com



> On Nov 27, 2016, at 7:21 PM, Jeffrey Olson <jjolson58 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Just curious - what is a title, or the author's first name for the "Semb books?"
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> Jeff, Laramie, WY
> 
> 
>> On 11/27/2016 7:55 PM, David Hough reading PCT-L wrote:
>> For through hikers the big issue is the resupply.    For section hikers,
>> it's the car shuttle.
>> 
>> Today I started reorganizing my website pcnst.oakapple.net to incorporate
>> my next project, supplemental information for the Semb books
>> to update them, and to add suggested
>> backpacking trips to fill in the gaps that can't be dayhiked.
>> 
>> For those of you that weren't prescient enough to buy the Semb books when
>> they were in print 15 years ago, you should know that they provide detailed
>> driving instructions for all the back roads that you need to know about
>> to dayhike ALL the dayhikable PCT, and almost all the information is still
>> good.      That's what I'm looking for in newer books.
>> 
>> Step one for my website
>> was cleaning out dead links including the PCTA store, which has a new
>> URL, and checking that out I found that there are some new books published
>> by the Mountaineers that might render my whole project unnecessary.
>> Maybe everybody else knows about these, but they were news to me:
>> 
>> https://shop.pcta.org/publications/books/hiking-the-pacific-crest-trail-washington-section-hiking-from-the-columbia-river-to-manning-park
>> 
>> https://shop.pcta.org/publications/books/hiking-the-pacific-crest-trail-oregon-section-hiking-from-donomore-pass-to-bridge-of-the-gods
>> 
>> The URL's are self-explanatory.    I will
>> see if they would have sufficed when I needed them,
>> in lieu of the Semb books.    But they seem to be out of stock at the
>> PCTA store.
>> 
>> The Mountaineers own web site implies that the series will eventually cover
>> California too.    The Washington volume was published in September
>> and the Oregon volume is currently out of stock there too.
>> 
>> The PCTA store also has, from March 2014,
>> 
>> https://shop.pcta.org/publications/books/day-hikes-and-overnights-on-the-pacific-crest-trail-southern-california-from-the-mexican-border-to-los-angeles-county-marlise-kast-myers
>> 
>> I can't tell if it covers all of Southern California up to LA county
>> or just parts.
>> 
>> By the way, the "Day & Section Hikes" series published by Wilderness Press
>> several years ago is NOT a substitute for the Semb books - they don't cover
>> the whole dayhikable trail, just highlights.
>> 
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