Reviews for The Tahoe-Yosemite Trail: A Comprehensive Guide to the 180 Miles of Trail Between Meeks Bay at Lake Tahoe and Yosemite Park's Tuolumne Meadows

The average rating for The Tahoe-Yosemite Trail: A Comprehensive Guide to the 180 Miles of Trail Between Meeks Bay at Lake Tahoe and Yosemite Park's Tuolumne Meadows based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-08-01 00:00:00 Lars Bohlmann Out of date (pub 1987) but surprisingly engrossing as nature writing about a *relatively* unknown vast tract of wilderness & national forest hiding in plain sight. The Ventana Wilderness/Los Padres National Forest/Santa Lucia Mountains are single-digit mileage inland as the crow flies from the crowded, famous Big Sur route on Highway 1, yet much of their terrain is solitary, rugged and often dangerous. The book includes about a dozen legit glossy USGS topo maps that the author annotated with his routes and landmarks. Obviously don't try to use it directly as a guidebook today. Even as the author laments a fire recent to the 80s, two or three more serious fires & their subsequent regrowth have happened since then, including a big one last year in 2016. These fires can radically alter vegetation, trails & camps, and even the terrain itself, not necessarily for worse, but certainly for different. Floods too can change watercourses. And trails, camps & roads are always being added, abandoned, renovated, etc. Finally, if I'm not mistaken, additional public lands have been added to this district over the years.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-09-05 00:00:00 John Corrigan First of all, it's clearly dated. This might not matter very much - wilderness doesn't change very fast - but trends in backpacking, and trail use do. Past that, the book is useful but hard to follow with not enough commentary on which hikes are good/bad for different people and experiences.