Afoot & Afield: Inland Empire: 256 Spectacular Outings in Southern California(Afoot & Afield)

The Inland Empire, with its mountain, foothill, valley, and desert recreational opportunities, is a hiker's paradise.Afoot & Afield: Inland Empire describes more than 250 noteworthy hikes, ranging from easy to very strenuous, in this comprehensive hiking guide to the length and breadth of the Inland Empire. These hikes explore Southern California's three tallest mountains; the stark beauty of the high desert, including Joshua Tree National Park and Mojave National Preserve; as well as trails that wind through urban and regional parks. Each hike is shown on custom-created maps that also include GPS waypoints. The maps alone are worth the price of the book.

Table of Contents:
1 Mount Baldy Area 1.1 Mount Baldy Loop 1.2 San Antonio Falls 1.3 North Backbone Traverse 1.4 Bear Flats 1.5 Bear Ridge 1.6 Lookout Mountain 1.7 Ice House Canyon 1.8 Cedar Glen 1.9 Ontario Peak 1.10 Cucamonga Peak 1.11 Three T's 1.12 Baldy Nine Peaks Challenge 1.13 Iron Mountain 1.14 San Antonio Ridge 1.15 Ice House Saddle From Lytle Creek 1.16 Etiwanda Peak 1.17 Bonita Falls Upland-Claremont-San Dimas Hills 2.1 Sunset Peak 2.2 Sunset Ridge 2.3 Stoddard Peak 2.4 Frankish Peak 2.5 Etiwanda Falls San Bernardino Mountains: West 3.1 Deep Creek Hot Springs 3.2 San Andreas Overlook 3.3 Heart Rock 3.4 Pinnacles 3.5 Metate Trail 3.6 Little Bear Creek 3.7 Deep Creek 3.8 Fisherman's Camp 3.9 Deep Creek Canyoneering 3.10 Holcomb Crossing Trail Camp 3.11 Cox Creek 3.12 Heaps Peak Arboretum 3.13 Exploration Trail 3.14 Little Green Valley San Bernardino Mountains: Big Bear Lake Area 4.1 Grays Peak 4.2 Delamar Mt. 4.3 Cougar Crest + Bertha Peak 4.4 North Shore Trail 4.5 Woodland Trail 4.6 Gold Mountain 4.7 Sugarloaf Mt. 4.8 Wild Horse Creek 4.9 Grand View Pt. 4.10 Castle Rock 4.11 Skyline Trail 4.12 Seven Oaks Trail 4.13 Champion Lodgepole 4.14 Siberia Creek from Big Bear 4.15 Siberia Creek from Snow Valley 4.16 Siberia Creek from Seven Oaks 4.17 Butler Peak 4.18 Granite Peaks San Bernardino Mountains: San Gorgonio Wilderness 5.1 San Gorgonio via Vivian Creek 5.2 Little San Gorgonio 5.3 Galena Peak 5.4 Big Falls 5.5 Alger Creek Trail 5.6 Momyer-Falls Creek Loop 5.7 Aqueduct Trail 5.8 Mountain Home Flats 5.9 San Bernardino Peak 5.10 Ponderosa and Whispering Pines Nature Trails 5.11 John's Meadow 5.12 San Bernardino Peak via Forsee Creek 5.13 South Fork Meadows 5.14 San Gorgonio via Dollar and Dry Lake 5.15 Jenks Lake 5.16 Santa Ana River Trail 5.17 Aspen Grove 5.18 Fish Creek Meadow 5.19 San Gorgonio via Fish Creek 5.20 San Bernardino Nine Peaks Challenge 5.21 Yucaipa Ridge traverse Mojave Desert 6.1 Mormon Rocks Interpretive Trail 6.2 East Ord Mountain 6.3 Owl Canyon Urban Parks 7.1 Pacific Electric Trail 7.2 Prado Lake 7.3 Mt. Rubidoux 7.4 Box Springs Park Two Trees Trail 7.5 Box Spring Mountains Skyline Trail 7.6 Box Springs Towers Loop 7.7 Sycamore Canyon Wilderness Park 7.8 Olive Mountain 7.9 Terri Peak Loop / Bernasconi Hills 7.10 South Hills Preserve Jedi Trail 7.11 San Timoteo Nature Sanctuary 7.12 Oakmont Trail 7.13 Wildwood Canyon 7.14 Zanja Peak Loop 7.15 Crafton Hills Grape Ave Loop 7.16 Crafton Hills Traverse 7.17 El Dorado Ranch Park 7.18 Bogart Park 7.19 Simpson Park Hemet Santa Rosa Ecological Preserve 8.1 Granite Loop 8.2 Sylvan Meadows 8.3 Oak Tree Trail 8.4 Los Santos Trail 8.5 Vernal Pool 8.6 Historic Adobes 8.7 Santa Rosa Plateau Loop San Jacinto National Monument 9.1 Black Mountain 9.2 Indian Mountain 9.3 San Jacinto via Fuller Ridge 9.4 San Jacinto River, North Fork 9.5 Seven Pines Trail 9.6 San Jacinto via Marion Ridge 9.7 Panorama Point 9.8 Webster Trail 9.9 Idyllwild Nature Center 9.10 Suicide Rock 9.11 Tahquitz Rock 9.12 Ernie Maxwell Trail 9.13 Skunk Cabbage Meadow 9.14 Tahquitz Peak via Saddle Junction 9.15 Caramba 9.16 Strawberry / Saddle Loop 9.17 Idyllwild to Tramway Loop 9.18 San Jacinto from Idyllwild 9.19 Tahquitz Peak via South Ridge 9.20 Desert View Loop 9.21 Long, Round, and Tamarack Valleys 9.22 Cornell Peak 9.23 San Jacinto from Aerial Tramway 9.24 Seven Peaks of the San Jacinto Wilderness Desert Divide 10.1 Antsell Rock 10.2 Apache Peak 10.3 Palm View Peak 10.4 Cedar Spring 10.5 Northern Desert Divide 10.6 Desert Divide Nine Peaks Challenge 10.7 Thomas Mountain 10.8 Cahuilla Mountain 10.9 Hurkey Creek 10.10 South Fork San Jacinto River Palm Springs and the Indian Canyons 11.1 South Lykken Trail 11.2 North Lykken Trail 11.3 Museum Trail 11.4 Cactus to Clouds 11.5 Tahquitz Canyon 11.6 Desert Angel 11.7 Vargas Palms 11.8 Snow Creek 11.9 Andreas Canyon 11.10 Maynard Mine 11.11 Murray Canyon 11.12 Lower Palm Canyon 11.13 Fern Canyon 11.14 Palm Canyon Pines to Palms 11.15 Jo Pond Trail Santa Rosa National Monument 12.1 Garstin Trail 12.2 Araby Trail 12.3 Jane's Hoffbrau 12.4 Murray Hill 12.5 Magnesia Spring Canyon 12.6 Bump and Grind Trail 12.7 Art Smith Trail 12.8 Randall Henderson Trail 12.9 Living Desert and Eisenhower Peak 12.10 Bear Creek Canyon Ridge 12.11 Boo Hoff Loop 12.12 Guadalupe Trail 12.13 Stone Sentinel 12.14 Sawmill Trail 12.15 Horsethief Creek 12.16 Cactus Spring Trail 12.17 Martinez Mountain 12.18 Pinyon Trail 12.19 Rabbit Peak from the Coachella Valley 12.20 Rabbit and Villager Peaks 12.21 Rabbit Peak from Clark Lake Colorado Desert 13.1 Painted and Ladder Canyon Loop 13.2 Big Split Rock Canyon 13.3 Neverending Canyon 13.4 Utah Canyon 13.5 The Grottos 13.6 Black Butte 13.7 Chuckwalla Mountain 13.8 Stepladder Mountain 13.9 Mopah Desert Preserves 14.1 McCallum Grove 14.2 Pushawalla Palms Canyon 14.3 Moon Country 14.4 Big Morongo Preserve 14.5 Pipes Canyon 14.6 Sawtooth Loop in : Pioneertown Preserve 14.7 Oak Glen Preserve 14.8 Whitewater Canyon to Mission Creek 14.9 Whitewater Canyon Ridge Loop 14.10 Whitewater Preserve to San Gorgonio Overlook 14.11 Dos Palmas Preserve Joshua Tree National Park: Main Park 15.1 Window Rock Loop 15.2 Boy Scout Trail 15.3 Willow Hole 15.4 Wonderland of Rocks Traverse 15.5 Barker Dam Trail 15.6 Garrett's Arch 15.7 Wall Street Mine 15.8 Negro Hill 15.9 Mt. Minerva Hoyt 15.10 Quail Mountain 15.11 Lost Horse Mine and Mountain 15.12 Mount Inspiration 15.13 Mt. Inspiration from Coachella Valley 15.14 Ryan Mountain 15.15 Queen Mountain 15.16 Desert Queen Mine 15.17 Skull Rock Nature Trail 15.18 Split Rock 15.19 Eagle Cliffs 15.20 Malapai Hill 15.21 Bernard and Little Berdoo Peaks 15.22 Arch Rock 15.23 Joshua Mountain 15.24 California Riding and Hiking Trail Joshua Tree National Park: Black Rock & Covington 16.1 Black Rock Canyon Panaorama Loop Trail 16.2 Eureka Peak 16.3 West Side Loop 16.4 High View Nature Trail 16.5 Covington Crest 16.6 Covington Loop Joshua Tree National Park: Indian Cove 17.1 Indian Cove Nature Trail 17.2 Gunsight Loop 17.3 Rattlesnake Canyon 17.4 Fortynine Palms Oasis Joshua Tree National Park: East 18.1 Pinto Mtn 18.2 Fried Liver Wash 18.3 Mastadon Peak 18.4 Lost Palms Oasis 18.5 Eagle Mtn 18.6 Munsen Cayon 18.7 Carey's Castle 18.8 Spectre Peak Mojave National Preserve 19.1 Kelso Dunes 19.2 Hole in the Wall 19.3 Barber Peak Loop 19.4 Mid-Hills to Hole-in-the-Wall 19.5 Table Top Mountain 19.6 Mitchel Cavern 19.7 Edgar Peak 19.8 Old Dad Mountain 19.9 Lava Tubes 19.10 Teutonia Peak 19.11 Kessler Peak 19.12 Fort Piute 19.13 Caruthers Canyon 19.14 New York Mountain 19.15 Clark Mountain 19.16 Castle Peaks Mojave Trails National Monument 20.1 Afton Canyon 20.2 Sheephole Mountain 20.3 Pisgah Lava Tubes 20.4 Amboy Crater 20.5 Cadiz Dunes

About the Author :
David Harris is the Harvey S. Mudd Professor of Engineering Design at Harvey Mudd College and the author of Terrific engineering textbooks and hiking guidebooks. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in Electrical Engineering and his M.Eng. and S.B. degrees in EECS and Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has designed microprocessors at Intel Corporation, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Broadcom, and his passion for chips is reflected in his books on the subject. He began his hiking adventures as a wee tot on his father's back and has been exploring the mountains and deserts ever since. Now, his own three boys are frequent companions on these trips.