
The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader, Oregon and Washington
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Content
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Publisher's Note
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- California
- Southern California: Land of Little Rain
- Covering Section A-Section F
- Campo-Warner Springs-San Gorgonio Pass Cajon Pass-Agua Dulce-Tehachapi Pass-Walker Pass
- 1. "Day One: Comfort Comes in Small Doses"
- 2. "Six Moon Trail"
- 3. "Walking Down a Dream"
- 4. "Sometimes They Come Back"
- 5. "Deep Creek Paradise"
- 6. "In Sickness and in Health"
- 7. "Wild Echoes: Carrion for Condors"
- 8. "Agua Dulce to Bakersfield . . . the Hard Way"
- 9. "The Land of Little Rain"
- 10. "Tales of Desert Symbiosis"
- 11. "Climbing a Ridge in Wind"
- 12. "The Many Faces of Trail Magic"
- Southern Sierra: Range of Light
- Covering Section G-Section H
- Walker Pass-Mount Whitney-John Muir Trail-Tuolumne Meadows
- 13. "The Beginnings of the John Muir Trail"
- 14. "Wilderness Boundary"
- 15. "Homecoming"
- 16. "High Odyssey: The Whitney Conquest"
- 17. "Forester"
- 18. "The Mystery of the Apple Pie"
- 19. "The Ghost of Muir Pass"
- 20. "The Bear at Lyell Fork Creek"
- 21. "I Was There"
- 22. "Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn"
- Northern Sierra: Mountains and Rivers Without End
- Covering Section I-Section M
- Tuolumne Meadows-Sonora Pass-Echo Lake Donner Pass-Yuba River-Feather River Canyon-Belden
- 23. "On the PCT without Food"
- 24. "A Sierra Storm"
- 25. "Snow-Shoe Thompson"
- 26. "June 28, Barker Pass: Confessions of a Day Hiker"
- 27. "Footprints"
- 28. "A Wind-Storm in the Forests"
- 29. "Walking"
- 30. "Jim Beckwourth: Larger than Life"
- 31. "A Rite of Masculinity"
- Cascades and the Klamath Knot: The Realm of Fire
- Covering Section N-Section R
- Belden-Feather River Canyon-Lassen Peak-Burney Falls Castle Crags-Etna Summit-Seiad Valley-Siskiyou Summit
- 32. "Lassen Peak: The Big Blowout"
- 33. "A Spring Saga"
- 34. "Piss-Fir Willie"
- 35. "Lemuria: Mysteries of Mount Shasta"
- 36. "A Blistered Kind of Togetherness"
- 37. "The Battle of Castle Crags"
- 38. "My Close Encounter with Bigfoot"
- 39. "Air Streaming off the Crest"
- 40. "A Taste of Jefferson"
- 41. "When Deer Go Bad"
- 42. "A Generation Between Thru Hikes"
- Conclusion
- Oregon and Washington
- The Oregon Cascades: Forests Forever
- Covering Section A-Section G
- Seiad Valley-Siskiyou Pass-Fish Lake-Crater Lake-Cascade Crest Willamette Pass-McKenzie Pass-Barlow Pass-Columbia River
- 1. "Listening for Coyote"
- 2. "Measuring Time on the Pacific Crest Trail"
- 3. "There and Back Again"
- 4. "Of Outlaws and Train Robberies"
- 5. "Stopping, Looking, and Listening"
- 6. "Be Prepared"
- 7. "Great Strength of Feet"
- 8. "Night Visitor at Maidu Lake: A True Pacific Crest Trail Story with Very Little Embellishment"
- 9. "Lost Horses and Mules on the PCT and Other Forest Service Stories"
- 10. "Interlude: A Bug's Life VII"
- 11. "Blazes on the Skyline"
- 12. "Silence in the Sisters"
- 13. "The Reluctant Guidebook Writer"
- 14. "The Rescue of Over the Hill Jim"
- 15. "The Barlow Road Story"
- 16. "Walking in 5-7-5"
- 17. "The Old Gal and Sweet Goat Mama Hike the PCT"
- 18. "Soul, Sweat, and Survival on the Pacific Crest Trail"
- The Columbia and Volcanic Washington: Lava, Moss, and Lichens
- Covering Section H-Section I
- Columbia River-Bridge of the Gods-White Pass Mount Rainier-Snoqualmie Pass
- 19. "Gift from the Trail"
- 20. "Bear Bagging"
- 21. "A Pacific Crest Odyssey"
- 22. "Editors on the Edge"
- 23. "Growing Up on the Trail"
- 24. "A Magnificent Digression"
- 25. "The 1853-54 Naches Pass Wagon Road"
- 26. "Man v. Nature: Changing the Way We Look at the Land"
- 27. "Miles Missed"
- 28. "How Coyote Happened to Make the Black Moss Food"
- The North Cascades: The Great White North
- Covering Section J-Section L
- Snoqualmie Pass-Stevens Pass-Glacier Peak Rainy Pass-Manning Provincial Park
- 29. "Two on the Trail"
- 30. "The Kingdom"
- 31. "Night Rise on the Pacific Crest Trail"
- 32. "The Art of the Trail: An Aesthetic Appreciation of What's Underfoot"
- 33. "Triumph and Tragedy at Stevens Pass"
- 34. "Zero Days Are Never Zero"
- 35. "Where the Pacific Crest Trail Begins: Is It Campo? Manning Park? No, It's Montgomery-the Search for Montgomery"
- 36. "Out on the Crest Trail"
- 37. "The Gift"
- 38. "The High Adventure of Eric Ryback"
- 39. "The Last Skies"
- Conclusion: Endings as Beginnings
- Contributing Writers
- Index
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