Steve Roper

This guide comes as close to my vision of the high sierra as I've yet found. For someone interested in rambling through the highest of the Sierra high country, off trail and walking up 1st, 2nd and 3rd class peaks but not mountaineering, this is the book. Planning to do some of the route this summer!

Well, it's a chronicle. Although I know the valley, I don't know it enough to appreciate the detailed insight. Most protagonists ring some bell, but I would have appreciated an even more general approach to the valley.