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Best-selling travel authors Tom Stienstra and Ann Marie Brown offer readers their informed advice on exploring California's deserts, from climbing Death Valley's towering Telescope Peak to surveying Joshua Tree's sweeping landscape and namesake vegetation. Comprehensive and easy to use, Moon California Deserts Camping and Hiking also provides "best-of" campground and trail lists—including Best for Kids, Best for Wildflowers, and Best for Waterskiiing—leading novice and expert outdoors adventurers alike to a wide range of camping and hiking options throughout California's dry places. Complete with clear directions to each location, detailed destination descriptions, difficulty and quality ratings for each hike, and helpful maps, Moon California Deserts Camping and Hiking provides campers and hikers with all the necessary tools to head outdoors.

For 30 years, Tom Stienstra's full-time job has been to capture and communicate the outdoor experience. This has led him across California - fishing, hiking, camping, boating, biking, and flying - searching for the best of the outdoors and then writing about it.Tom is the nation's top-selling author of outdoors guidebooks. He has been inducted into the California Outdoor Hall of Fame and has twice been awarded National Outdoor Writer of the Year, newspaper division, by the Outdoor Writers Association of America. He has also been named California Outdoor Writer of the Year five times, most recently in 2007. Tom is the outdoors columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle; his articles appear on sfgate.com and in newspapers around the country. He broadcasts a weekly radio show on KCBS-San Francisco and hosts an outdoor television show on CBS/CW San Francisco.The author of 13 outdoor guidebooks, Ann Marie Brown is a dedicated California outdoorswoman. She hikes, bikes, and camps more than 150 days each year in an effort to avoid routine, complacency, and getting a real job.Ann Marie's work has appeared in Sunset, VIA, Backpacker, and California magazines. As a way of giving back a little of what she gets from her experiences in nature, she writes and edits for several environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and National Resources Defense Council.

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Moon California Deserts Camping & Hiking Including Death Valley, Mojave, Joshua Tree and Anza-Borrego

Moon California Deserts Camping & Hiking Including Death Valley, Mojave, Joshua Tree and Anza-Borrego

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