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Yosemite National Park: A Complete Hikers Guide | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeffrey P. Schaffer
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 502909
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5 Pap/Map
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 393
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 5.8 x 1.4
ISBN: 0899973833
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.94470454
EAN: 9780899973838
ASIN: 0899973833
Publication Date: June 30, 2006
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Product Description
Virtually every single trail in Yosemite National Park is described in this classic guidebook, together with the scenery and natural history found along each trail. View the soaring granite cliffs and waterfalls of Yosemite Valley, or take in the breathtaking vista from Glacier Point. Explore the impressive groves of giant sequoias and hike the spectacular, glacier-carved backcountry. The major trails leading into the park are also described in equal detail--trails in the Emigrant, Hoover, and Ansel Adams wildernesses. Have you ever wondered why Yosemite Valley is so deep? How the giant sequoias acquired their present distribution? Why the vegetation changes with altitude? How Pothole Dome got its potholes? The answers to these questions and many others are found inside this guidebook. Also included is the most up-to-date, topographic map available of Yosemite and vicinity, showing over 1000 miles of trails, all of them personally hiked by the author or his assistant.
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 No route maps September 15, 2008
I'm going to second the other reviewer who said that this book is pretty useless because it has no route maps. It's true, and as a result it's really hard to pick a few spots you'd like to visit and then find a route in the book best gets you to those spots. It's kind of a shame because the book is otherwise very detailed and descriptive. It's just very hard to use because there's no way to visualize where a given route goes without reading through all of its text.
Exactly what I wanted. May 12, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
It has the detail I was looking for. I wanted the mileage and info on the hike. I didn't want a lot of photos.
 No mini-maps. August 25, 2007
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
In my opinion, a hiking guide is not something you read linearly. You take it, choose a hike you want to do and then read the description to do it. And, importantly, you want to choose the hike fast, without reading the whole description. It is possible to do so with a few statistics (distance, elevation, rating, trailhead) and a map of the route. In my opinion, the latter is extremely important. In fact, you can gain an idea of the stats from the map, but not vice versa.
The guide does a very good job at giving the stats, both before each hike section and (very handy!) in a table listing all hikes. But there are no route maps. Instead, there is a companion map of poor resolution (1:125000) and quality. Understanding the route using the map and the text description is no easy task, especially if you are not familiar with the park.
I might be a great guide for those who are fairly familiar with the park and want to get more information on the routes they know about. But personally, I found this guide completely unusable, hence the harsh rating. Luckily I had another one with route maps (Falcon Guide).
On the plus side, it has a lot of useful information in the appendix and a good index (important if you want to see a particular place, but again you need to know about this place first). If only the author put the route maps and trailhead names (so that the reader is somewhat equipped to fight the permits reservation system) in front of each hike's description, this guidebook will be impossible to beat.
 A hiker's inspiration August 20, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I borrowed this book from my local library. I was looking for information on hiking Mt. Dana. I must say that there appear to be some typos as it took me a few tries to find the correct pages for this particular hike.
Because I was in Tuolumne Meadows, I browsed this section for other ideas on hikes for a return trip and to determine why certain parking spots were were packed with cars. The booked helped me identify which trails started from these popular parking spots and offered great detail about the challenges and scenery that hikers would encounter.
I'm looking forward to having my own copy of this book and I can see how it's a priceless source of information for any frequent hiker of Yosemite.
A must-have for any traveler interested in personally experiencing the natural wonders of Yosemite National Park September 9, 2006
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
First written in 1978, Yosemite National Park: A Complete Hiker's Guide is the classic in-depth reference by outdoors enthusiast Jeffrey P. Schaffer, who has personally hiked and rehiked the 1,000+ miles of trail covered. Black-and-white photographs illustrate this reference to the region's geography, history, flora, and fauna, and of course, extensive discussions of the hiking trails with highlights of the best places for views, wildflowers, camping, swimming and other activities. A separate fold-out map rounds out this one-of-a-kind must-have for any traveler interested in personally experiencing the natural wonders of Yosemite National Park.
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