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Hiking Olympic National Park | 
 enlarge | Author: Erik Molvar
Publisher: Falcon Pr Pub Co
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 3552464
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
ISBN: 076271851X
Dewey Decimal Number: 917
EAN: 9780762718511
ASIN: 076271851X
Publication Date: April 30, 2001
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Product Description
This book describes a 585 mile network of maintained trails in a wilderness ecosystem that stretches from the beaches of the Pacific to the heart of the Olympic Mountains.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 hiking book May 7, 2007
This book was great. It gave us detailed information to the trail heads. We liked how the book was seperated into sections of the peninsula. This helped us plan our trip. We hiked 10 of the hikes. We couldn't have done it without the book.
 Disjointed, confusing, and incommodious. March 8, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is the proverbial "can't see the forest through the trees." Way too much minutia and nothing close to the big picture. Long dissertations describe every step of the way about trees and plants - and then some more on the trees - on long (30-40 miles) hikes, but with very poor descriptions about the magnificent outdoors in the great northwest. Couple that with a serious lack of good maps, along with dreadfully vague information on where/what - makes for an aggravating read. I have 30 years of experience as a bush pilot but trying to navigate through this book makes hiking preparation a laborious chore.
 needs a rev, focused too much on backpacking July 18, 2006
Decent overview but hard to comprehend if you've never been there. Poor maps, little on the visitor center and tourist areas. Great if you have a topo and have been there before. Not great if it's your first visit.
 Slightly Misleading Information... July 18, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Although I am a huge fan of Falcon guides, this edition definitely let me down. Unfortunately it doesn't differentiate between Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest trails. This becomes a big deal when you spend a significant amount of time planning your trip only to arrive at the trailhead and find that you need an Olympic National Forest permit, because the trailhead parking falls in the national forest, not the national park, and you need to drive back 15 miles to get one. If you are prepared with a National Parks pass, not a National Forest pass, this is definitely frustrating. In fact, a significant number of trails in the book are in the national forest, not the national park. Because this is an older book (1995) it also doesn't include some of the nicer Falcon guide features found in the newer books like the trails being broken down into categories in the beginning based on the types of features the trail has (i.e. waterfalls versus alpine meadows). It also doesn't include any attempt at topo maps, which is a definite downside. I'm still a fan of the Falcon guides, but I think I'll stick to the ones that are more recently published from now on...
 When Islands Slam into Continents, Great Hiking is Born October 8, 2005
Olympic is a beautiful park with diverse terrain, serious vertical gain, rain forests, waterfalls, northern pacific coast, glaciered peaks and miles and miles of trails for both day hikes and extensive backcountry excursions. The falcon guide does a good job organizing the park, providing acceptable overview references, including compelling photography (for black and white) and selecting a diversity of hike distances. There short hikes, moderate and long day hikes and multi-day excursions (though the emphasis is on the latter two). You sill need to print out a map from the national park service web site to orient yourself in the park as you flip through the pages (I often felt lost with just the couple of overview maps) but in general it is a really helpful guide.
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