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Оглавление“You can’t buy more accurate information at any price.”
– San Francisco Examiner
The “ideal consultant,” according to Wilderness Record, this guidebook to the Pacific Crest Trail will help you find the PCT, locate supply access routes, water sources and good camping spots, and learn about the mountains and wilderness areas along the way. With Jeffrey P. Schaffer as your expert guide, you’ll learn about the geology, plant communities, wildlife, and history of the Pacific Crest Trail. Here’s a sampling:
The first part of this trail section is on a narrow, abandoned road through a forest of black oak, ponderosa pine and incense-cedar. Mountain misery, a low, sticky shrub, permeates the air with a subtle fragrance as the day’s temperature rises.
By doing this loop trail you get a feel for the rugged Donner Pass terrain and you can see how it hampered the westward progress of early emigrants, with their heavily laden wagons.
Before following the trail west, you may be overwhelmed by the symmetry and beauty of a huge dome looming before you.
The bedrock here is composed of metamorphosed volcanic rocks that were erupted perhaps 300-400 million years ago.
