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In Oregon, backpackers can hike wild beaches, enjoy colourful desert canyonlands, walk amid stunning granite peaks, relax in wildflower meadows, and circle glacier- clad mountains. Award-winning guidebook author and long- time Oregon resident Douglas Lorain details 30 spectacular backpacking trips in Backpacking Oregon. Lasting from three days to two weeks, these carefully crafted itineraries offer geographic diversity, beautiful scenery, and reasonable daily mileage goals. This in- depth guide provides all the information backpackers will need to access the Oregon backcountry, including the Oregon Coast, Columbia Gorge, High Cascades, Hells Canyon, and the Klamath, Siskiyou, Blue, and Wallowa Mountains. A detailed trail map and photographs accompany each trip. With sixteen pages of stunning full-colour photographs.Lorain, Douglas is the author of 'Backpacking Oregon From Rugged Coastline to Mountain Meadow', published 2007 under ISBN 9780899974415 and ISBN 0899974414.
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