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Layover Days: These are days when you’ll want to remain camped at a particular site so you can dayhike to see other beautiful places around the area or enjoy some adventures like peakbagging. The number of layover days you take and where are purely personal choices, to be balanced with how much time you have and how much food you can carry. Our trip descriptions will help you pick where and when you want to take layover days.

Total Mileage: The trips in this book range in length between 5 and 110 miles, and many trips can be shortened or extended, based on your interest and time.

Measuring distances in the backcountry is more an art than a science. We use decimal fractions for indicating distances, but don’t imagine that we measured them to the tenths and hundredths of miles. The numbers represent our best estimates of distance based on techniques like the time it took us to get from point to point. You can’t represent thirds accurately as decimal fractions, so we use 0.3 for one third and 0.6 for two thirds.