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Distributed in the United Kingdom by Cordee, www.cordee.co.uk

First edition, 2019

Copyeditor: Kris Fulsaas

Cover and book design: Jen Grable

Cartographer: Lohnes+Wright

Cover photographs, front: Isolation Lake gleams below Little Annapurna in the Upper Enchantments (Hike 82); back, clockwise from top: Big Heart Lake (Hike 66), balsam arrowroot along the trail (Hike 62), marmot near the Chain Lakes Trail (Hike 74).

Frontispiece: Gem Lake from the High Lakes Trail en route to Wildcat Lakes (Hike 30)

Last page: Looking east from Putrid Pete’s Peak (Hike 21) along the ridge to Mount Defiance

The background maps for this book were produced using the online map viewer CalTopo. For more information, visit caltopo.com.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018044987

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ISBN (paperback): 978-1-68051-077-5

ISBN (ebook): 978-1-68051-078-2