Big Sur Recreation Map: Ventana Wilderness
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List Price: $9.95
Our Price: $5.29
Your Save: $ 4.66 ( 47% )
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Binding: Map
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780899973654
ISBN: 0899973655
Label: Wilderness Press
Manufacturer: Wilderness Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1
Publication Date: 2004-12-21
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Studio: Wilderness Press
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Summary: nice map, but not checked for accuracy
Comment: This is a great map that is well worth having if you plan to go hiking in the Ventana Wilderness. But it's not perfect.
On the plus side, it's a topographic map with 80 feet contour intervals and shows all the trails, access roads, and backcountry camps. It spans the entire Ventana and Silver Peak Wilderness areas, which makes it a bit large but also quite useful for planning trips. It labels parking locations, picnic areas, campgrounds, and trailheads. It has nice close-up inset maps for the popular parks along the Big Sur coast.
However, the Wilderness Press clearly didn't have someone familiar with the area review the map prior to publishing it, and it certainly didn't pay someone to hike all the trails. It doesn't have the hiking distances and elevation of the trail junctions that the Tom Harrison maps do. (Unfortunately, at the time I wrote this, Tom Harrison doesn't have a Ventana Wilderness map.) More seriously, the map shows trails that don't exist: e.g., the "trail" from Ventana Double Cone through the Window to Kandlbinder Peak, or the "trail" from Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park to Anderson Peak.
So feel free to buy this map (I'm glad I did), but use good judgment, be prepared for a wide range of conditions, and don't trust everything the map says.
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