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Don't Waste Your Time in the Canadian Rockies: The Opinionated Hiking Guide (Don't Waste Your Time) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Kathy Copeland, Craig Copeland
Publisher: Hikingcamping.com
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 26871
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 539
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0968941974
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.52209711
EAN: 9780968941973
ASIN: 0968941974
Publication Date: July 2004
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Book Description
This all-new, fifth edition describes 138 dayhikes and backpack trips in Banff, Jasper, Kootenay, Yoho, and Waterton national parks, as well as Mt. Robson and Assiniboine provincial parks. Here's the discerning advice you need to create rewarding adventures. This guide rates and reviews trips as Premier, Outstanding, Worthwhile, or Don't Do. 260 colour photos reveal this stunning wilderness. Trail maps for each trip enhance the comprehensive route descriptions
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 Buy the book if hiking in Banff July 25, 2008
A friend of mine recommended the book and we absolutely loved it. Although we only did two hikes in our 4 days in Banff, the book paid for itself as we had to wonderful day hikes that I know we wouldn't have done without the knowledge of the book. We did a hike out of Lake Louise that was only listed as "outstanding' by the book which was awesome, so we wondered about how good a 'premier' hike could be. After hiking to Mt. Borgeau, we were again impressed. The book insights are spot on and give great directions. On our Mt. St. Piran hike, the signage from the St. Agnes Tea house was spotty, but the book set us straight.
We loved the little explanations. This book is keeper. Tons of pictures, simple maps, and one we'll definately use again when we head up that way again. I wish the authors wrote guide books for US National Parks!!
Very good item February 8, 2008
Althought the autor gives his personal point of view in all the hikes, I must recognize is very usefull and have a lot of spectacular pictures.
Superb guide for planning a vacation February 3, 2008
If you're planning an itinerary in the Canadian Rockies and are looking for the best trails for you, this book is perfect. Rather than describe individual trails, it helpfully groups them into "trips". (If you have to hike 20 miles along a boring trail to get to another fabulous trail, the whole trip isn't as fabulous.)
This new edition includes color photos showing many trails' incredible beauty, as well as basic maps that show how the trails link together. You'll probably want to buy a real trail map, but if you're hundreds of miles away planning a trip, the maps in this book are incredibly helpful at figuring out where you might want to hike. Since both long and short trails are included, we also used it during our trip to see where we should stop along the road for a quick gorgeous hike. We had a wonderful vacation using this book.
excellent guide to the Canadian Rockies August 26, 2007
I purchased this book to research where the best above-timberline scenery and scrambles would be in Banff and Jasper, and was not disappointed. I can't remember ever seeing a better guidebook -- some in the same league, like J. Gordon Edwards' book, but not a better one. Usually, the lack of good color photos is the major drawback to guidebooks, but the number and quality of the photos in this book is amazing, and the text is really helpful in getting a feel for what the place is like, above and beyond the simple mileages. Even if you're not hiking there soon, this is a great armchair book.
I might have rated this book only as 4 stars, due only to lack of topographic maps... but on reflection, if you're going to be out hiking, you'll be carrying topographic maps with you anyway, not an entire hiking book, so that's not really a drawback.
I noticed that one review compared this book unfavorably with Brian Patton's "Canadian Rockies Trail Guide." The latter is also an excellent book (I have both the 8th and a previous edition), but is more "factual" and less opinionated in tone, has black and white rather than color photos, and doesn't attempt to compare quality of trails with each other. Both that book and this one are very good (I have both and they complement each other), but the color photos and willingness to venture opinions (and just plain enthusiasm) are among the strong points of the Copelands' book. Highly recommended.
Best hiking guide for the Canadain Rockies August 7, 2007
I purchased 5 or 6 books on the subject and this is far and away the best guide. Very detailed, reliable and practical info, basic maps in the back with references to Gem Trek topo maps for each hike. Definitely worth the price. Don't waste your time or money on other references. The book is a bit dense and heavy to carry, but (as the authors point out), just make copies of what you need and leave the rest at home!
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