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.Adventuring in the Chesapeake Bay Area City Travel Guides > Books > Sierra Club by: John Bowen August 17, 1999 >>See More Reviews & Details on Adventuring in the Chesapeake Bay Area |
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.Alaska: Images of the Country City Travel Guides > Books > Sierra Club by: Galen Rowell June 12, 1982 Galen Rowell was one of the great outdoor photographers and most of his books are full of spectacular pictures of mountain scenery. But if you are expecting a normal picture book about Alaska, this isn't it. Instead this is a look at a place that is full of ambiguity. The book is structured around John McPhee's book "Coming into the Country". In that book McPhee gives an insightful description of Alaska as a place, and its inhabitants. The Alaskans seem torn between preserving the wilderness and developing it and the extracts contained in this volume capture that spirit. For example, McPhee provides admiring character studies of a number of people who came to Alaska because they just didn't fit in back in the lower ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Alaska: Images of the Country |
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.Arizona Day Hikes: A Guide to the Best Hiking Trails from Tucson to the Grand Canyon City Travel Guides > Books > Sierra Club by: Dave Ganci May 23, 1995 Arizona is a great state to hike. Even without the magnificent hikes in and around the Grand Canyon, there are plenty of other trails to explore and enjoy. This book does it all! It is an exceptionally well-designed book for hikers across the spectrum. Whether you're a neophyte or have climbed Denali, this book contains all the essential information you need to tackle the hikes listed. The photos are all in color and are breathtaking! You really get a sense of what each hike will look like before you undertake it. Every hike also has a color map to accompany the text description. The maps are easy to follow and instructive. Equally pleasing is that the authors take the time to describe each hike in extensive detail, though they are ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Arizona Day Hikes: A Guide to the Best Hiking Trails from Tucson to the Grand Canyon |
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.Bay Area Wild: A Celebration of the Natural Heritage of the San Francisco Bay Area City Travel Guides > Books > Sierra Club by: Galen Rowell November 30, 1999 This book was very interesting. Not only did it have plenty of photos, the text was actually useful and have a great message. Reading Galen's work is just as great as looking at it. I had never even heard of or seen most of the places in the book until I got the book. Now, I'm walking some of the same trails I discovered in the book. >>See More Reviews & Details on Bay Area Wild: A Celebration of the Natural Heritage of the San Francisco Bay Area |
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.Best Coast Hikes of Northern California: A Guide to the Top Trails from Big Sur to the Oregon Border City Travel Guides > Books > Sierra Club by: Marc J. Soares July 13, 1998 Original Post (2000): This book is great if you're looking for places that are off the beaten path. For example: instead of going to Muir Woods to see redwoods (and hordes of tourists), head off to Heritage Grove in La Honda for a chance to be one-on-one with the mighty trees (and check out the banana slugs as well!). I've only hiked about 4 of the 70+ trails so far, but they have all been worthwhile. Highly recommended! Update (2003): Wow - I'm glad "13 out of 13 readers" found my review useful! :-) Three years later, this now lovingly-worn book has accompanied me on a dozen more hikes, from Mendocino to Big Sur. Friends and visitors are always amazed at how I've been able to magically find these spectacular places! The ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Best Coast Hikes of Northern California: A Guide to the Top Trails from Big Sur to the Oregon Border |
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.The Deserts of the Southwest: A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide City Travel Guides > Books > Sierra Club by: Peggy Larson, Lane Larson June 27, 2000 We camped for a week in the Davis Mountains in west Texas in a section of the Chihuahuan desert last summer. This was not our first desert experience - we have hiked and camped across much of the Southwest over the last twenty years or so. This was an unplanned trip as we were headed toward southern Colorado, but we became fascinated by the Chihuahuan desert and somehow we never drove any further. We were similarly quite lucky to find a copy of the first edition of Peggy Larson's Sierra Guidebook in a bookstore in Alpine, Texas. She presents the deserts of the American southwest (and northern Mexico) in a literate and educated fashion. She manages to discuss individual plants and animals in some detail while painting a large ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on The Deserts of the Southwest: A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide |
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.Exploring the Yellowstone Backcountry: A Guide to the Hiking Trails of Yellowstone with Additional Sections on Canoeing, Bicycling, and Cross-Country Skiing City Travel Guides > Books > Sierra Club by: Orville E Jr Bach June 02, 1992 This is the best trails book for any of the mountain states national parks. I have not found a book for Glacier or Rocky Mountain National parks as good as this book. The Kent and Donna Dannen guide to RMNP comes close. This book may look as if it is for backpackers, but it has lots of info for day hikes, too. >>See More Reviews & Details on Exploring the Yellowstone Backcountry: A Guide to the Hiking Trails of Yellowstone with Additional Sections on Canoeing, Bicycling, and Cross-Country Skiing |
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.Hiking the Grand Canyon City Travel Guides > Books > Sierra Club by: John Annerino May 04, 1993 I hike rim to rim to rim several times a year in the Grand Canyon, so I know the inner corridor trails pretty well. This book should now be considered the definitive guide for hiking in the Grand Canyon and the strong points of this book are worth noting. The maps are excellent, as are the descriptions of how to get to trail head. However, the book is incomplete in certain areas and outdated. The Grand Canyon has implemented a shuttle system to stem the horrific crowds (I don't see much improvement) and hikers now can't drive to the South Kaibab trail or Hermit's Rest trail. The directions in this book are therefore rendered confusing due to the new restrictions. Most importantly, the authors neglect to stress that in order to successfully ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Hiking the Grand Canyon |
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.Hiking the Grand Canyon City Travel Guides > Books > Sierra Club by: John Annerino March 20, 2006 I hike rim to rim to rim several times a year in the Grand Canyon, so I know the inner corridor trails pretty well. This book should now be considered the definitive guide for hiking in the Grand Canyon and the strong points of this book are worth noting. The maps are excellent, as are the descriptions of how to get to trail head. However, the book is incomplete in certain areas and outdated. The Grand Canyon has implemented a shuttle system to stem the horrific crowds (I don't see much improvement) and hikers now can't drive to the South Kaibab trail or Hermit's Rest trail. The directions in this book are therefore rendered confusing due to the new restrictions. Most importantly, the authors neglect to stress that in order to successfully complete ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Hiking the Grand Canyon |