Born Free and Equal
Ansel Adams

Climbing Mt. Whitney
Peter Croft, Glen Dawson

Close Ups of the High Sierra
Norman Clyde

Death Valley to Yosemite: Frontier Mining Camps and Ghost Towns
L. Burr Belden & Mary DeDecker

Desert Summits
Andy Zdon

Favorite Dog Hikes In and Around Las Vegas
Wynne Benti & Megan Lawlor

Favorite Dog Hikes In and Around Los Angeles
Wynne Benti

Grand Canyon Treks
Harvey Butchart

High and Wild: Essays and Photographs on Wilderness Adventure
Galen Rowell

Mojave Desert Trails
Florine Lawlor

Out From Las Vegas
Florine Lawlor

The Secret Sierra: The Alpine World Above the Trees
David Gilligan

Robert Clunie: Plein Air Painter
of the Sierra
Richard Coons

DESERT SUMMITS: A CLIMBING AND HIKING GUIDE TO CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHERN NEVADA
By Andy Zdon

UPDATED EDITION AVAILABLE AUGUST 2006!

416 information-packed pages on more than 300 peaks and the best desert mountaineering in California and Southern Nevada including all-new peaks. With ascents varying in difficulty, from easy walks to cross-country scrambles and technical climbs, Desert Summits covers: Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks, Mojave National Preserve, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Red Rock National Conservation Area, Lake Mead and Spring Mountains National Recreation Areas, Desert National Wildlife Refuge, the White-Inyo Range, and the peaks surrounding Las Vegas including:

Excelsior Mountains in Nevada, Gold Butte area, Sweetwater Mountains, Bodie Hills, Mormon Mountains, Eldorado Mountains, Sliver Peak Range, Cady Mountains, and Providence Mountains. Obscure mountains include: Sleeping Beauty Mountain, Coffin Peak, Scattered Bone Peak, Saline Peak, Last Chance Mountain, Devil Peak, Corkscrew, Gold Butte, Muddy Mountains, Hamblin Mountain, Frenchman Mountain, Van Winkle Mountain (Providence), Tortoise Shell Mountain (Woods Mountains), and Old Woman Mountain.

Author and professional geologist, Andy Zdon, a graduate of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, provides interesting anecdotes about the geology, history, and natural history of these desert mountains. Andy Zdon currently lives and works in the Owens Valley on the east side of the Sierra Nevada.

Desert Summits: A Climbing and Hiking Guide to California and Southern Nevada
416 pages, 130 photographs, 18 maps, ISBN 1-893343-12-X $21.95