- ISBN13: 9780762730551
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This fully revised and updated guide to hiking in Yosemite National Park will help readers choose and plan a day hike or backpacking trip best suited to their time, energy, experience, and personal preferences. There are fifty-nine classic day hikes and overnight backpacking trips meticulously prepared by backcountry guide Suzanne Swedo.
Hiking Yosemite National Park, 2nd
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I spend all winter planning my hikes for the summer. I own and have used most of the titles for Yosemite. Hiking Yosemite National Park has most of the most popular trails but two other books do a better job: 100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park and Lonely Planet Hiking in the Sierra Nevada.
My main complaint is the incomplete descriptions, too short and too vague. If you get off the trail you’ll run the risk of getting lost because there are no “big picture” maps. A topo is absolutely essential if you want to understand your location.
Rating: 2 / 5
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This is a great book for both hikers wanting the more popular, “touristy” hikes and those wanting a physical challenge. There are detailed descriptions for all the hikes, and she even breaks down the hikes by her favorite hikes for “high altitude”, “photo opps”, “waterfalls”, “solitude”, etc. I found the descriptions pretty accurate. A good book for someone who’s not so familiar with all the different types of hikes in Yosemite.
Rating: 5 / 5
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This is an indispensible guidebook for any hiker who loves Yosemite. I use it almost daily during hiking season and it helps in selecting hikes, planning them, reaching the trailhead and gauging whether a hike will be worthwhile. Each hike contains an accurate, though brief, description of the rigors of each trek. Occasionally I quibble with the authors ranking of a given hike, but usually they are on the mark.
A few cautionary notes: there are no detailed maps in the book, except general maps which introduce the hiker to each specific place. Te map for the John Muir trail, for example, is very basic. Don’t expect detailed maps for each hike because there are none. The descriptions of how to reach each trailhead are excellent, unless you have little experience with Yosemite.
My favorite part of the book is that the Touloume Meadows High Country area is not neglected. Swedo has various categories and list the hikes they think are best suited to be placed in every league and the valley floor is not the only area of the park that is stressed .If you spend any time hiking in Yosemite, this book is essential!
Rating: 5 / 5
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This is a straightforward guide to the trails in Yosemite that does the job clearly and informatively, and at a good price. The guide is well laid out, organized by trailhead area. Each hike has all the necessary information (length, altitude gain, best time of year etc) and an elevation profile, followed by a brief description that gives a feel for the area and a list of way-points. Each trail gets about two pages of information, and the book is small enough to carry along without minding the weight. Overall this is a very good guide – nothing flashy but its very well put together, well thought out and a good price.
Rating: 5 / 5
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Like most Falcon hiking guides, this one provides useful and reliable information. The only shortcoming is it doesn’t provide comprehensive information on all the trails and destinations. It wouldn’t take much to add this info so that a reader who wanted to cobble together a different hike from the ones described in detail could figure out distances and altitudes gained (similar, for example, to AMC guides for hiking in various locales out East).
Rating: 4 / 5
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