Exploring Pictured Rocks--West Half: A Backpacker's & Spelunker's Backcountry Guide to the Trails, Campsites, Beaches, Overlooks, Old Growth, ... of

Exploring Pictured Rocks--West Half: A Backpacker's & Spelunker's Backcountry Guide to the Trails, Campsites, Beaches, Overlooks, Old Growth, ... of

"Exploring Pictured Rocks" is a full-color 8.5- by 11-inch map-based trail guide that includes 13 heavily-annotated full-color USGS maps and 24 full-color detail maps; 550-plus charted caves; 100s of charted old-growth specimens; 850-plus GPS coordinates; and 23 historical essays. The "EXPLORING PICTURED ROCKS: WEST HALF" guide book and in-depth interview with the author about visiting the park with Maren Horjus, Destinations Editor at "Backpacker Magazine," made the top-100-places-to-hike-in-the-U.S. cut and is a chapter in her 2018 336-page Falcon Guides' book entitled "BACKPACKER HIDDEN GEMS: 100 GREATEST UNDISCOVERED HIKES ACROSS AMERICA." The "EXPLORING PICTURED ROCKS: WEST HALF" guide book and in-depth interview with the author about visiting the park with Maren Horjus, Destinations Editor at "Backpacker Magazine," made the top-100-places-to-hike-in-the-U.S. cut and is a chapter in her 2018 336-page Falcon Guides' book entitled "BACKPACKER HIDDEN GEMS: 100 GREATEST UNDISCOVERED HIKES ACROSS AMERICA." --Maren Horjus, Backpacker Magazine Michael Neiger mneiger@hotmail.com is a wilderness guide who's organized 100s of backpacking, canoeing, canyoneering, caving, and winter-camping trips, expeditions, and SAR operations in Michigan and Canada since 1984. He has paddled solo from the Lake Superior area to the Arctic Ocean, and skied solo from the northernmost plowed road in Ontario, Canada to lower Hudson Bay on the Arctic Ocean. A 26-year veteran detective with the Michigan State Police, he's currently the lead investigator with Michigan Backcountry Search and Rescue (MibSAR) -- MibSAR.com -- a Long Range Special Operations Group (SOG) that assists families and law enforcement agencies with long-term missing-person cases and cold-case homicide investigations in the remote bush between the Great Lakes in Michigan and the Arctic Ocean in Canada. Michael spends upwards of 100 nights in the bush annually, and he enjoys long-distance running and swimming. When he's not in the bush, he resides in Marquette, Michigan, along the south shore of Lake Superior. -- ExtremeTrailMaps.com "Seek not the wilderness trip of a lifetime, but a lifetime of wilderness tripping." -- Michael's credo