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22 of 23 found the following review helpful:
nice map, but not checked for accuracy Dec 06, 2006
By Lee Kenyon
This is a great map that is well worth having if you plan to go hiking in the Ventana Wilderness. But it's not perfect.
On the plus side, it's a topographic map with 80 feet contour intervals and shows all the trails, access roads, and backcountry camps. It spans the entire Ventana and Silver Peak Wilderness areas, which makes it a bit large but also quite useful for planning trips. It labels parking locations, picnic areas, campgrounds, and trailheads. It has nice close-up inset maps for the popular parks along the Big Sur coast.
However, the Wilderness Press clearly didn't have someone familiar with the area review the map prior to publishing it, and it certainly didn't pay someone to hike all the trails. It doesn't have the hiking distances and elevation of the trail junctions that the Tom Harrison maps do. (Unfortunately, at the time I wrote this, Tom Harrison doesn't have a Ventana Wilderness map.) More seriously, the map shows trails that don't exist: e.g., the "trail" from Ventana Double Cone through the Window to Kandlbinder Peak, or the "trail" from Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park to Anderson Peak.
So feel free to buy this map (I'm glad I did), but use good judgment, be prepared for a wide range of conditions, and don't trust everything the map says.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Your best map for Big Sur/Ventana Jul 17, 2011
By Brian Wiese
If you plan to do any hiking in the Big Sur and Ventana Wilderness, I think this is the best map available for you! I'd also recommend the book Hiking and Backpacking Big Sur for more detailed descriptions of the trails in the area and points to consider. The most up to date information on trail conditions (e.g. trails closed due to fire, unmaintained, etc) is available on the "Ventana Wild Trails Condition Reports" webpages and forums. Be sure not to miss Sykes Hot Springs, just a short 10 mile hike from the Pfeiffer Big Sur Station parking lot on the Pine Ridge trail.
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