2021-03-05, 06:26 PM
Chuck Gebhardt's (pardon my earlier spelling) book was Hiking Death Valley, published in 1985 When I first showed up out there in 1990, that was all there was, except for Hart's Great Basin Sierra Club book - which was where I learned about the Racetrack and had to go on my very first visit, probably part of what got me hooked (oh the view into the Saline from Ubehebe Peak, totally blew me away).
It took a few hikes to figure out that Gebhardt's hand drawn maps were rarely to scale, but it certainly was the next step up from the park newspaper with its usual "10 hikes"
It took a few hikes to figure out that Gebhardt's hand drawn maps were rarely to scale, but it certainly was the next step up from the park newspaper with its usual "10 hikes"