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Hiking The Escalante | 
 enlarge | Author: Rudi Lambrechts
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 340116
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0874806313
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.9252
EAN: 9780874806311
ASIN: 0874806313
Publication Date: May 10, 1999
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 nice cover picture June 19, 2008
I bought this book and went to the area covered.
And I advise anyone planning a trip there to change their plans.
It is hot, too hot.
There is no water or shade.
The flying insects, there are millions, bite every inch of unprotected skin.
Every plant has needles that leave you pierced.
The crawling creatures will find you where you sleep and bite you.
And for what - a bunch of red rocks and dirt.
Safer to stay in the car and look at it from the road.
Or better yet stay home.
A Must for Your Fanny Pack July 3, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Hiking the Escalante Wilderness can get very confusing even if you are proficient at the use of USGS topo maps. Hence, whenever I have gone I have taken this book. He devoted a lot of time to not only giving you a much-needed guidebook, but also to giving you a lot of history, biology, botany, and even deals with hundreds of side canyons/routes... But some of the information might be outdated (e.g. the pools in Death Hollow) and his descriptions that seem clear can be vague (how to safely scale the last 50 yards to Phipps arch); there are other, wrong, places that look exactly as he describes the correct place (e.g, finding the mail route west and out of Death Hollow - there is a bend lower in the creek that looks the same, but is not the route). He also relies heavily upon his odometer readings to find trailheads and all car odometers don't jive with his readings.
 Very accurate January 30, 2001
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Having hiked the Escalante canyons a lot before reading this book, I found upon reading it that the book seemed to match my memory of places fairly exactly. That doesn't mean a lot, so I took it with me on a few of the more backcountry trips and found it so extremely accurate and useful that I am now using it as the primary information source for some trips to areas that are new to me in the Escalante region. I'd definitely recommend this book.
A Very Nice and Quite Usable Guidebook March 12, 2000
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
The Escalante is a vast area of great charms. This is a nice hiking guide to some of the more accessible areas of the Escalante. These hikes are not for the faint of heart - they require good backcountry skills. What makes the book truly great is Rudi's natural history background. Extensive drawings and text add richness to our visits to the red rock country of the Escalante. 43 hikes listed, drawings, maps and many b&w photographs.
Excellent and extremely useful information November 21, 1999
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I not only enjoyed reading this book, but found it extremely useful in planning my first trip to the Grand Staircase region. It gave me an accurate idea what to expect from each trail.
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