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Not mentioned in the headings but useful for trip planning and for finding directions to campgrounds, picnic areas, trailheads, and other features, the USFS also publishes smaller-scale maps covering an entire national forest for Klamath (2007), Shasta-Trinity (2007), and Six Rivers (2005) National Forests. All of these USFS maps can be purchased at ranger stations and information stations, or online at nationalforestmapstore.com.

Index of USGS 7.5-Minute Topographic Maps

TOOLS

Few tools are required for a trip into the wilderness. One important tool many hikers and backpackers like to carry is a shovel—not the big, cumbersome, or heavy type that you would use in your garden, but a short one with a sturdy blade and a strong handle. This kind of shovel serves three purposes: to scrape out a place for a fire, to put the fire out, and to dig a hole for disposing of human waste.

A fire can only be fully extinguished by drowning it out with water, stirring, and repeating the whole process over again. Simply covering a fire with dirt is usually insufficient enough to put out a campfire. Don’t attempt to put out a fire simply by dumping some dirt on it and covering it with rocks.