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Published by
Wilderness Press, the official guidebooks to the PCT pretty much mandatory for any hiker. The trail is split into three books: Southern California, Northern California and Oregon/Washington. The guidebooks contain a complete set of maps for the trail. While hand-drawn, they're fairly accurate and all that you really need to navigate.
If you purchase the guidebooks through the
PCTA Store, some profits go to a darn good cause. But less expensive from Amazon, and PCTA is largely govenment funded anyway.
Pacific Crest Trail: Southern California
From the Mexican Border to Tuolomne Meadows
JEFFREY P. SCHAFFER, THOMAS WINNETT, BEN SCHIFRIN, & RUBY JOHNSON JENKINS
$22.95
6th edition, Jan 2003
368 pages
ISBN 0-89997-316-7
Pacific Crest Trail: Northern California
From Tuolumne Meadows to the Oregon Border
JEFFREY P. SCHAFFER, THOMAS WINNETT, BEN SCHIFRIN, & RUBY JOHNSON JENKINS
$19.95
6th edition, Oct 2003
360 pages
ISBN 0-89997-317-5
Pacific Crest Trail: Oregon and Washington
JEFFREY P. SCHAFFER & ANDY SELTERS
$24.95
7th Edition, Dec 2004
354 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 0-89997-375-2
Updates/Corrections
Official updates for 2007 can be found at the publisher's
website.


