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Afoot & Afield Denver/ Boulder & Colorado's Front Range: A Comprehensive Hiking Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Alan Apt
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 294007
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 348
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 0899974066
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.5109788
EAN: 9780899974064
ASIN: 0899974066
Publication Date: February 15, 2008
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Product Description
Afoot & Afield Denver/Boulder & Colorado's Front Range takes hikers throughout the Colorado Rocky Mountains and their foothills, rivers, and plains. Featuring more than 200 trips, from trails near the state's Wyoming border to Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, author Alan Apt maps out hikes both long and short, exploring trails accessible from Denver, Boulder, and other Front Range communities. Highlights summarize the best features of each trip. Easy-to-read maps, plus complete trip descriptions and hiking directions make sure that hikers find their way. - More than 200 hikes ranging from short dayhikes to long weekend treks, each shown on a trail map.
- At-a-glance essential information--distance, time, elevation change, and difficulty rating.
- Additional trail-use data such as which trails are suitable for children, dogs, horseback riding, and mountain bikes.
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 excellent, but somewhat Fort Collins-centric August 1, 2008
an excellent, nearly thorough guide to hiking in Fort Collins, Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs, southern Wyoming, and various points west. Apt is a superb writer and clearly a lover of nature rather than someone out to prove his ultra-fitness or mountaineering expertise -- a large number of the hikes are very modest outings suitable for young children or the elderly.
Just one major criticism: some strange inclusions and exclusions for a book with Denver/Boulder in the title. A number of hikes in Steamboat Springs and Wyoming are included, for instance -- both are a very sizable drive from anywhere on the Colorado front range except perhaps Fort Collins. Yet some truly awesome and popular hikes much closer to Denver/Boulder are excluded: 4th of July trailhead hikes west of Boulder are an especially glaring omission, as some of the most spectacular hiking in the country originates there. (Perhaps Apt wants to keep that increasingly popular area as much of a secret as possible.) Another strange omission, given Apt's somewhat Fort Collins-centric approach, are any of the trails in the main part of State Forest west of Fort Collins: anything north of route 14.
 NICE VERY NICE July 10, 2008
Afoot & Afield is a great find for a transplant to CO. The descriptions of the trails and the maps are right on. This book is just as accurate as the trail guides but out by the AMC in New England The difficulty of the trails and length of time to take the hikes were very accurate a great feature. I have come out of the woods well after dark because of some misinformation.
A stranger in a strange land.
Happy Trails! June 26, 2008
If you're a hiker/walker/trekker/explorer and just love to be in the great outdoors, you'll love this book on Colorado trails.
I've been an outdoor guide for the past thirty years and have led people on trips in more than 30 areas around the world. It's important for me to have a trail guide that's accurate, concise and informative. Alan Apt's book is all of that and more. If you've always wanted to explore some of Colorado's many outstanding outdoor areas, you'll want this book for your library!
Great Book April 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this book. The Afoot and Afield series is a great series, and this is one of the best books in the series. The author is obviously somebody who has spent many, many hours "afoot in the field," and this book is like having a happy, knowledgeable, easy to be with hiking companion. Well worth the price. Well worth picking up and keeping for many, many hours of hiking pleasure. I hike a lot, and this book has added depth and feeling and expertise to my outings. I really liked it. Appreciate its details and overviews. I can highly recommend it.
Alan Apt's latest great outdoor book April 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fans of Alan Apt's "Snowshoe Routes - Colorado's Front Range" will be anxious to see his latest accounting of the best outdoors adventures that Colorado has to offer. The book contains all of the great hikes in Colorado and many enticing but lesser-known ones as well. The author is a stickler for detail and provides comprehensive information and coherent maps for every described trail. If you could only have one Colorado hiking book, it would be hard to find a better one.
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