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Backpacking California: Mountain, Foothill, Coastal & Desert Adventures in the Golden State

1st Edition 2001

2nd Edition 2008

3rd Edition 2020

Copyright 2001, 2008, 2020 by Wilderness Press

Frontispiece:by Analise Elliot Heid

Cover photos (clockwise from top): by Mike White

Back cover photo: by Elizabeth Wenk

Interior photos: All photographs within a particular trip are by that trips author, except the following: by Dennis McFall.

Project editor: Kate Johnson

Maps: Scott McGrew and Steve Jones

Cover design: Scott McGrew

Book design: Larry B. Van Dyke with updates by Annie Long

Copy editor: Scott Jones

Indexer: Frances Lennie

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wilderness Press.

Title: Backpacking california : mountain, foothill, coastal & desert adventures in the golden state / Wilderness Press.

Description: Third edition. | Birmingham, AL : Wilderness Press, [2020] | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020019864 (print) | LCCN 2020019865 (ebook) | ISBN 9780899979588 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780899979595 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: BackpackingCaliforniaGuidebooks. | TrailsCaliforniaGuidebooks. | CaliforniaGuidebooks.

Classification: LCC GV199.42.C2 B33 2020 (print) | LCC GV199.42.C2 (ebook) | DDC 796.5109794dc23

LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/2020019864

LC ebook record available at lccn.loc.gov/2020019865

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