Best Hikes of the Marble Mountain and Russian Wilderness Areas California

Written by Art Bernstein, an excellent guide to the Marble Mountain and Russian Wilderness Area in California. Crafted prosaic and styling. Accurate trails description and excellent maps. It should be in your collection as one of the best guidebook ever. The Marble Mountain area was classified as a Primitive Area as long ago as 1931, and reclassified as Wilderness Area in 1953, prior to the 1964 creation of the national Wilderness Preservation System. Today the Marble Wilderness Area is a labyrinth of ancient rocks, including some of the continent’s oldest formations, carved by glaciers into knife-edged ridges. Located between the city of Yreka and the Pacific Coast, it occupies 525,000 acres, reaching up to 8300 feet of altitude. The Rusian Wilderness Area, a 12,000-acre beauty with dozens of accessible trout fishing lakes, is centered around the Russian Peak, a massive uplift of white granodiorite, occupying the triangle between the North and South Forks of the Salmon River and the flat ranchlands of Scott Valley. This book contains information on 16 trailheads, leding to 137 destinations, including 93 trout fishing lakes. Art Bernstein describes the region on his unique writing style, and accurately points out locations of trailheads, camping sites, making interesting comments about the paths and destinations.