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Title: Hiking Grand Canyon National Park by Ron Adkison ISBN: 1-56044-566-1 Publisher: Falcon Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This is the Grand Canyon hikers book
Comment: To me, this is the Grand Canyon book to get if you are planning on hiking the trails. It has great illustrations of the trails and elevations. You can easily follow the trail illustrations from one trail to another because they tell you the page number of the connecting trail. The textual descriptions are excellent and very easy to follow. The trails are broken up logically and are easy to piece together for extended trips into the canyon. If you are looking for a book with telephone numbers of who to call for reservations and all that, this is not the book. Fine with me because that information is always changing and isn't that what they made the internet for? The size is a bit large to be considered a pocket book but is easily packable. The size actually helps with the illustrated maps as it makes them what I consider to be perfect for trail use. I prefer to make copies (which I did not do if it is a violation of some copyright) of the trails I am going to hike and leave the book behind. The copies are handy for the inevitable rain that always comes. Put them in a zip lock bag with the one you need on top...this book does not stress much about people being physically prepared to hike the canyon. If they don't physically prepare, what makes you think they bother to read before they hit the trail? I have yet to see a sick person on the trail with a book about the canyon in their hand. The book does rate each of the trails with regard to difficulty. I have several books on the Grand Canyon and for planning and hiking the trails, this is the one I would recommend over all the others.
Rating: 4
Summary: Hiking Grand Canyon
Comment: The overview and locator maps proved very useful. Posting the elevation gain and loss (as well as a plot showing where these occured) was very helpful in negotiating the trails. Precautions and general hiking information in the front sections of the book were very thorough.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent trail descriptions and a very clear writing style
Comment: For those folks that want to stay on the main Grand Canyon trails and not onto the seldom visited routes this is an excellent guide. For each of the 28 South and North rim trails the author gives detailed, thorough descriptions, useful maps, trail mileage, level of difficulty, a profile of the elevation changes on the trail, detailed directions to the trailhead and more. Adkison's clear writing style is to be commended. I found the guide has only a few drawbacks: readers should use his suggested hiking times with caution; in at least one case (Tanner trail) his mileage figure is very likely too short; and the whole rather than part of the Tonto trail ought to have been covered in the book. These minor shortcomings aside I highly recommend this trail guide.
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Title: Grand Canyon Trail Map by Kent Schulte ISBN: 0966550846 Publisher: Sky Terrain Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Hiking Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks by Erik Molvar ISBN: 1560445092 Publisher: Falcon Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Hiking the Grand Canyon by John Annerino ISBN: 0871565897 Publisher: Sierra Club Books Pub. Date: 04 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Official Guide to Hiking the Grand Canyon by Scott Thybony ISBN: 0938216481 Publisher: Grand Canyon Association Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Best Easy Day Hikes Grand Canyon by Ron Adkison ISBN: 156044603X Publisher: Falcon Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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