The Hiker's Hip Pocket Guide to Sonoma County

by Lorentzen, Bob

• ISBN13: 9780939431311
• ISBN10: 0939431319
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-31
• Publisher: Bored Feet Pubns

Summary

In this fully revised and expanded new edition, the 50 original hikes have been thoroughly updated, with an additional ten new trails detailed in new parks and expanded areas of existing parks. All the classic hikes at these state parks: Salt Point, Fort Ross, Sonoma Coast, Armstrong Woods/Austin Creek, Annadel, Sugarloaf Ridge, Jack London, R.L. Stevenson, and Bothe-Napa, plus hikes at most Sonoma County Regional Parks and huge Lake Sonoma Recreation Area. The author has personally extensively re-hiked the original trails, plus hiked an additional 100 plus miles on new trails first covered in this new edition. With all the natural and human history readers expect from our flagship series, plus a new emphasis on trails open to dogs.

Author Biography

Bob Lorentzen has written eight acclaimed guide books to California, seven of them for the North Coast. He first wrote and published this guide in 1990 because no one had fully described the great trails of Sonoma County. Bob has lived in Mendocino County for more than thirty years, Sonoma County before that. He and his family love to find and hike new trails, and sometimes to simply contemplate nature. He graduated with hohors from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1972, with a degree in community studies.