Recommended by the U.S. Forest Service and in print for over 40 years, Climbing Mt. Whitney is the guide to climbing the highest peak in California. Climbing Mt. Whitney describes how to climb Whitney as a dayhike, backpack, rock climb or as an evening hike by moonlight. Technical climbing routes on Whitney's East Face are described with Norman Clyde's own account of the first ascent up the magnificent East Face.   Many books try to copy the 40 year success of Climbing Mt. Whitney, locally produced in Bishop, California. Don't be fooled by the paid reviewers' comments on the back covers of the other publishers books! Climbing Mt. Whitney is the original guide to the best climbing on Whitney!

The original climbing Mt. Whitney

Sports & Outdoors

Wheelock, Walt

Mountaineering

Spotted Dog Press

Bring delight back to your homeschool.
Have you fallen into a routine of checking boxes? Do you wonder why you don't have time to focus on building your children's character and love of learning?
That can change.
Better Together teaches you how to design a part of your homeschool day where the entire family can learn together. This time, known as "Morning Time,” has exploded in popularity since its inclusion in Sarah Mackenzie's bestseller Teaching From Rest. Now homeschool mom and former teacher Pam Barnhill breaks down the practice for every homeschooler.
Inside you'll discover:
<ul>
<li>Why every family can benefit from Morning Time - no matter what homeschooling method they use.</li>
<li>The secret to building relationships by delighting in learning together.</li>
<li>Practical tips for a successful Morning Time.</li>
<li>Resources, book lists, and ideas. You will return to our selections again and again.</li>
<li>Examples and interviews from moms showing how it looks in their homes.</li>
</ul>
Better Together is the indispensable guide to creating a time in your day to focus on the things that matter most in your homeschool.

Better Together: Strengthen Your Family, Simplify Your Homeschool, and Savor the Subjects that Matter Most

Religion & Spirituality

Barnhill, Pam

Christian Books & Bibles

Homeschool planning is about more than wishful thinking.
Do you worry that you won't cover the subjects that your children need? Or maybe you create elaborate plans but never seem to be able to follow through with them. Do your lesson plans end up being a mishmash of crossed-off dates, arrows, and erasures?
You need a new way to look at homeschool planning.
Plan Your Year is a practical approach to homeschool planning that breaks free of grids and unrealistic expectations, focusing instead on the needs of the students, the teacher (yes, you!), and the busy life you lead.
Inside you will discover:
<ul>
<li>A step-by-step plan with action items. Complete the list and have a flexible and fabulous plan for your homeschool year ready to go in just days.</li>
<li>Three vital steps you can take before pulling out your credit card to buy curriculum, thereby avoiding buyer's remorse.</li>
<li>Practical ways to conquer the homeschool mom's biggest enemy: decision fatigue.</li>
<li>How to eliminate overwhelm and guilt with simple scheduling hacks. You have never seen a school schedule like this before!</li>
<li>Why lesson plan grids are the first step to homeschool plan failure. Learn what to use instead or how to adapt your premade curriculum grids for success with one simple step.</li>
<li>Ideas from across the homeschool community because one-size planning doesn't fit all--a variety of options for each planning step are included! Choose the options that fit your personality and style best.</li>
</ul>
Plan Your Year is the homeschool planning guide you have been waiting for. Get the direction you need without the guilt.

Plan Your Year: Homeschool Planning for Purpose and Peace

Gather: Exploring the Wonder, Wisdom, and Worship of Learning at Home

Tully, Heather

Pack a picnic lunch, a copy of Favorite Dog Hikes In And Around Los Angeles, and head for LA's favorite dog-hiking trails. First published in 1995 and now in its 8th printing, Favorite Dog Hikes In And Around Los Angeles is our guide to the most beautiful dog-friendly trails in the Santa Monica and San Gabriel Mountains. Trails listed in this book include Palo Comado Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area; Arroyo Seco, Mt. Lowe, Mt. Lukens, Strawberry Peak, Mt. Williamson, Mt. Lewis and Sunset Peak in the San Gabriel Mountains. 
Each hike includes driving instructions, trail descriptions, mileages, suggested maps and estimated round-trip completion times. 
New for 2001 are pointers for removing ticks, how to keep your dog on leash while walking hands-free along the trail, and how to make your own dog-hiking boots complete with pattern. Favorite Dogs Hikes In and Around Los Angeles was first published in 1995, before GPS, Google and Apple maps, before iPhones. It was peer-reviewed by several mountaineers, including RJ Secor author of Peaks, Passes and Trails of the High Sierra and Andy Zdon, author of Desert Peaks: A Climbing and Hiking Guide to California and Southern Nevada and Geology of the Las Vegas Region Zdon is a California state registered geologist, hydrologist and engineering geologist. Favorite Dog Hikes In and Around Los Angeles was reviewed and approved by the United States Forest Service Ranger Districts in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties and by the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. It sold more than 50,000 copies before its fourth printing and was the first canine trail guide of its kind, preceding ALL dog hiking books.

Favorite Dog Hikes In and Around Los Angeles

Travel

Wynne Benti

United States

¥ Updated edition now available ¥ $189334312X 416 pages ¥ Peaks and ranges not previously covered ¥ Updated road and route information ¥ Readable natural and human history ¥ Internet resources for visiting these areas ¥ Complete bibliography ¥ Geologist and author, Andy Zdon (Geology of the Las Vegas Region), has been traveling the desert west for 25 years.

Deserts Summits: A Climbing & Hiking Guide to California & Southern Nevada

Andy Zdon

Hiking & Camping

In 1937, climbing mountains was thought to be an activity reserved for men. Ruth Dyar Mendenhall broke that barrier to become one of California's first and most important women mountain climbers. 
The letters collected in Woman on the Rocks: The Mountaineering Letters of Ruth Dyar Mendenhall (Spotted Dog Press 2007), edited by Valerie Mendenhall Cohen, document her amazing fifty-year mountaineering career.

Woman on the Rocks: The Mountaineering Letters of Ruth Dyar Mendenhall

Biographies & Memoirs

Valerie Medenhall Cohen

Community & Culture

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