Fishin' Trails: 25 Short Hikes for Eastern Sierra Wild Trout

In Fishin' Trails, Jared Smith blazes the trail to some of the most exceptional backcountry trout fishing lakes in the region. Jared provides photographs, hiking info and angling advice for twenty five different wild trout destinations, even lakes that hold the elusive Golden Trout! Jared will show you that getting a taste of the Sierra backcountry isn't nearly as difficult as you might think. $24.99

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Escape to the Mountain: Mid-Life Redemption on the John Muir Trail

Parchers Resort owner Dr. Stephen Wade Smith takes the reader on five fascinating journeys of unexcelled natural beauty, soul searching and wild encounters with man and beast in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. We tag along on hiking and backpacking adventures with Smith's chiropractic buddies, another time with his sixteen-year-old son Jared, with friends, professional guides and with his beloved wife Judy. Looking for bear stories? Escape to the Mountains delivers them in abundance along with marmots and mosquitoes, the injured horse that had to be put down along the trail and other surprising misfits and benefactors along the John Muir Trail. $18.99