Product Description

The essential, cut-to-the-chase handbook to the Pacific Crest Trail, based on the comprehensive Wilderness Press guidebooks to the PCT, has been updated for 2005. Packed with trail-tested features, it's useful both on and off the trail. Use this indispensable tool for:

• Pre-trip planning for resupply stops
• Setting daily on-the-trail mileage goals by knowing trail gradient and the locations of campsites, water sources, and facilities
• Easily calculating distances between any two points on the trail
• Planning both north-bound and south-bound hiking trips

Whether you're hiking the entire PCT or just sections of it, the first step of the journey begins with this book.