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Title: Hiking Olympic National Park (rev) by Erik Molvar ISBN: 1-56044-457-6 Publisher: Falcon Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Backcountry Reference
Comment: I am a voulunteer Back-country Ranger for Olympic National Park, and this book is in my pack every time I head out into the back-country. His details are just what I want. I do not care for books that are so indepth that you know the hike before you start. What adventure is in that. He describes the location of back-country camp sites better than other authors. His book is very user friendly. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: Got a week? use this trail guide.
Comment: I ordered the three Olympic Mountains trail guides that seemed most highly recommended -- Molvar, Blair, and Wood -- and was impressed by each. I needed a guide for a 7 to 10 day visit to Olympic, of which I had no prior knowledge. Wood's book is definitely the most comprehensive and technical of the three. If I lived near Olympic or had more time, it would definitely be my first choice. Blair's book of day hikes is also an excellent book, with useful topo maps and a 1 - 5 star rating system that makes choosing the day's hike that much easier, especially for out-of-towners. It is chattier than Wood, in a sort of happy-day-hike way (pointing out picnic spots and giving more local history, for example), and includes hikes from a few to 10+ hours. The happy medium between these two books is Molvar. It is written in a friendly narrative, but with enough information to put together a several-days hike. Its weak point is its lack of topo maps, but the trail maps are still very useable, and the elevation profiles are helpful. It also includes beach trails not found in Blair.
Rating: 1
Summary: There has to be a better guide to the Olympic coast.
Comment: This book is copyright 1995, and its entries seem to be every bit this out-of-date. Of those I know, one trail re-opened years ago is listed as closed; one trail marked is no longer; one trail missing has been around for years. I can only assume trails closed for years are listed as open. The maps are likewise poor, missing many details such as maybe half the privy locations I know of and at least one trail where there is none. The trail descriptions look encouraging at first but as I read them more closely provide little information useful for predicting how a group might fare on the journey.
At a minimum, an updated version of this book is overdue.
Maybe I expect too much of a trail guide, but it almost makes me wish Ira Spring had a book covering the Olympic coast. On the bright side, the best thing about this dearth of coverage is that it helps keep the coast in relative wilderness.
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Title: Olympic Mountains Trail Guide: National Park & National Forest by Robert L. Wood ISBN: 0898866189 Publisher: Mountaineers Books Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Best Easy Day Hikes Olympics by Erik Molvar ISBN: 1560446064 Publisher: Falcon Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Hiking Mount Rainier National Park by Heidi Schneider ISBN: 1560446986 Publisher: Falcon Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: National Geographic Trails Illustrated Olympic National Park: Washington, USA ISBN: 0925873160 Publisher: Trails Illustrated Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Insiders' Guide to Olympic Peninsula by Rob McNair-Huff ISBN: 1573801917 Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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