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Information: For good general information about backpacking (gear, camp preparation, rules of the road), try Walking Softly in the Wilderness (John Hart, $6.95), The Best About Backpacking (Dennis Van Lear, $6.95), or The Climber's Guide to the High Sierra (Steve Roper...
...additional information, or information about particular areas and trails, write Sierra Club Headquarters, 530 Bush St., San Francisco, Calif. 94108; or the Appalachian Mountain Club, 5 Joy St. Boston...
...mind a half-mile hike or an occasional bear-venture to higher regions, spending the week at Tenaya, or Tioga, or Tuolomne. And then there are those who are not content near even the last vestiges of civilization. They are the back-packers--and they roam the High Sierra...
...Sierra Nevada is the nation's largest and most majestic mountain range. Towering above the Smokies and the Adirondacks, higher than the Rockies, nearly as long as the French, Swiss, and Italian Alps combined, the Sierras form a land of light. Snow-splashed peaks of shining white granite rise jaggedly above the desert to the east. To the west, forests of pine and redwoods and roll to meet the San Joaquin...
...backpacker, the High Sierra is a state of mind. Cleanswept, devoid of trees, the region contains the range's highest peaks. It would almost seem barren were it not for the glacier basins with their high tundra meadows, tiny wildflowers, deep blue lakes, and foaming cascades...