Books reviewed: Guide to Northern California Backroads and 4-Wheel Drive Trails, and Guide to Southern California Backroads and 4-Wheel Drive Trails When I want to look up trail information for a possible trip, I usually pull three books off of my shelf that cover the area in question. Two of those books will be […]

  Books reviewed: California Coastal Byways, Sierra Nevada Byways, and California Desert Byways Tony Huegel’s Byways series, from Wilderness Press, are my oldest and most-used offroad trail books.

Books reviewed: Backcountry Adventures: Southern California, and Backcountry Adventures: Northern California Peter Massey and Jeanne Wilson have created what surely must be the offroad trail books to which all others must be compared.

In mid-December, we had a group of 17 geocachers in ten vehicles link up at the BLM’s Knoxville offroad area for a day of geocaching and offroading. Knoxville is located north of Lake Berryessa, about a half hour drive on the backroads from Napa. Bill was the first person I linked up with