Awarded the 2009 Bronze Medal in the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation's annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition: "Whether you want to stand on a glacier or have a beer with local bikers, this is the definitive (as well as wonderfully eccentric) guide to the immensity of the southern Sierra and Owens Valley. John Muir would be pleased."—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear

This Great Destinations guidebook covers Yosemite to the Kern River Plateau and includes Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Giant Sequoia National Monument, the Mammoth Lakes region, Owens Valley and Eastern Sierra, as well as Death Valley National Park. Black-and-white photographs throughout.