Yosemite Trails was ostensibly a guide book, but I expect that if I were getting it for that purpose, I'd be rather disappointed. It's rather like the posts on my own blog in that it describes the route that was taken including remarks about the quality of the trail and excellence of a campsite. Sometimes options are mentioned. When an opportunity arises, a little camp etiquette might get thrown in. However, he even spends a week of one trip not knowing for sure where he is. It is actually a story of traveling the trails of Yosemite. The first part contains a couple small stories plus a circumnavigation of the rim. The second part goes further afield in traveling the high country near the park. Published in 1911, he describes a familiar and unfamiliar place. The Tioga road, which I should follow for some fifteen miles, is a rough track built in historic days by the owners of the once famous Tioga mine, which, long since abandoned, lies near the crest of the Sierra about t...
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