Salt to Summit
Book description
From the depths of Death Valley, Daniel Arnold set out to reach Mount Whitney in a way no road or trail could take him. Anything manmade or designed to make travel easy was out. With a backpack full of water bottles, and the remotest corners of desert before him, heā¦
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Imagine a solo cross-country hike in āthe land of little rainā from burning desert floor at Badwater at -282 feet below sea level in Death Valley, the lowest point in the continental United States to chilly, windswept Mount Whitney, the highest point at 14,505 feet above sea level at the crest of the Sierra Nevada. Iāve seen but not hiked much of the country between the two points, and I cannot imagine trekking it all in one hike. Arnoldās book did it vicariously for me and will also for any reader looking for an out-of-the-ordinary hiking adventure.
From Arthur's list on exploration of the American West.
In this slim book, the author recounts an off-trail walk/hike/climb from Badwater in Death Valley, the lowest point in North America, to the summit of Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the lower 48 states. A keen observer of nature, people, and history, Arnoldās accounts of places that I have been ring so true that Iāve added a number of new never-been-but-must-visit places and trust his harrowing accounts of places that Iāll never get to. He gets the geology right and recounts his adventures without condescending to his audience or shaming those who prefer to reach these places via trailsā¦
From Allen's list on wandering through Californiaās geology.
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