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Mountain Biking Southern California

Mountain Biking Southern California
By Mark A. Ross

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Product Description

Includes 69 of the best rides from the coastal bluffs of Morro Bay to the deserts of San Diego.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1447202 in Books
  • Published on: 1999-05-01
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 264 pages

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Taking you on 69 of the best rides from the coastal bluffs of Morro Bay to the deserts of San Diego, this book encompasses a variety of trails appealing to riders of all ability levels and includes at-a-glance features such as distance and technical difficulty as well as an elevation chart and map for each trail.

Customer Reviews

Great variety of trails.4
I found this book to very informative and opened up a lot of new riding experiences for me. As a Ventura/Los Angeles local, I got bored with the same old trails. This book provided me a good foundation to begin exploring a world of new trails, all within a few hours of my own home. The best part is that with one book, I was able to find trails in towns like Moro Bay, Santa Barbara, Big Bear and San Diego where I can now take weekend trips and know where to ride. The trail descriptions gave me a strong sense of the terrain and level of dificulty and I found them to be very accurate.

A colorless, forgettable, unremarkable guidebook.1
This book is quite disappointing. The maps are okay, the elevation profiles are helpful, but otherwise it's utterly bland--and one thing mountain biking shouldn't be is bland. There's no sense of what makes these mountain bike routes special (and if you've ever ridden in Southern California, you know how special the riding is). I think there are other guidebooks about Southern California that give you a lot more bang for your buck. There's no reason to settle for something as lazy, mundane, and obviously-tossed-together-just-to-make-some-cash as this.