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Hiking Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks (rev) | 
 enlarge | Author: Erik Molvar
Publisher: Falcon
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 237846
Media: Paperback
Edition: Second
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 232
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1560447184
Dewey Decimal Number: 917
EAN: 9781560447184
ASIN: 1560447184
Publication Date: May 1, 1999
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Product Description
This comprehensive guide covers more than 850 miles of trails.
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 I love this book! March 3, 2008
This book is a great guide for planning backpacking trips in Glacier Park. Don't purchase the 3rd edition, though! They've left out the valuable elevation profile charts that the revised edition contains.
Outstanding Guide March 14, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I used this guide to plan a 16 day backpacking trip in and around Glacier National Park. I spent several months planning the trip during the winter, and of the 3 books I used, this was by far the best resource. When I left for my trip I ended up leaving all the other books at home, but I made sure that this book was in my pack. Molvar has done an outstanding job and it is apparent that he has spent quite a bit of time exploring this area.
 Serviceable, Not Fantastic August 4, 2004
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Why is it that such a spectacular hiking location has so little documentation? Are there really only a couple viable guide books? Well, we selected this one, and while not our favorite format, it passed a fairly difficult pragmatic test. With 2/3 of the park closed due to fire we were still able to select outstanding hikes and make good comparative decisions with this book and a topo. The descriptions of the hikes are very good, the maps aren't bad (ridges are shaded and glaciers hatched, no topos) and the profiles (e.g. mileage vs elevation plots) provide very important information for a park where vertical gain is one of the central attractions and ridges must be traversed for nearly any destination. Photos are sparse and do not help as much as one would like with trail selection (few shots of destinations or views left me saying - `I have to see that, it will be well worth the 16 miles' - which is what I want from hiking guide photos) but on the whole this is a very serviceable book that was the primary guide to our great Glacier experience.
 Not your best choice February 29, 2004
17 out of 22 found this review helpful
This is a weak hiking guide on all fronts. Glacier is one of the most stunningly gorgeous places in North America, but you'd never know it from this book. The black and white photographs are indifferent, at best, and the driving descriptions to each trailhead leave much to be desired. I know your national thought is, "How can I get lost in a National Park?" Well, you can get lost using the driving routes contained in this book. There are few warnings about the perils of encountering a grizzly on the trail (I know, I've had this happen to me at Glacier). The author suggests carrying pepper spray, but against a 2,000 pound animal, that won't do the trick.Glacier deserves better than this rather boring and amemic effort.
 There are better choices August 4, 2003
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Written in the familiar Falcon Guide format with elevation profiles of hikes, but otherwise pretty bland. Vicky Spring's recreation guide to the park (from The Moutaineers series) is much better.
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