|
60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Sacramento (60 Hikes - Menasha Ridge) | 
enlarge | Author: Jordan Summers Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press Category: Book
List Price: $15.95 Buy New: $10.74 You Save: $5.21 (33%)
New (21) Used (4) from $10.74
Avg. Customer Rating: 1 reviews Sales Rank: 238896
Media: Paperback Edition: 1st Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 240 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2 Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.9 x 1
ISBN: 0897325567 Dewey Decimal Number: 796.51097945 EAN: 9780897325561 ASIN: 0897325567
Publication Date: February 5, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Condition: Book is brand new; multiple copies are available. This series is first rate. We believe our mission is to get books that celebrate outdoor activities into the hands of readers who appreciate the insightful advice of the author. Experience the great outdoors safely and fully.
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
With its famed foothills, historic Mother Lode region, and picturesque delta, California's capital and its surrounding area are an excellent hiking destination. But where to begin? Using author Jordan Summers' careful, hiking-basedresearch, this useful guide introduces area residents and visitors to an array of the best day-hikes — from casual riverside nature walks to rugged foothill treks — within roughly an hour’s drive of the city. The book's detailed descriptions help hikers choose routes with concise, at-a-glance information that highlights details such as location, access, directions, distances,and scenery. There's alsopreparation advice to help hikers get the most from each outing. Extensive andprecise maps, descriptive text, a wealth of black-and-white photos, and trailhead coordinates guide hikers on their way and keep them on-route.
|
| Customer Reviews:
An Ok Guide. Needs improvement July 4, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is fairly well put together and written decently. We live in Sacramento and we even met the author at a recent REI event. However, we've been on about 12 of the hikes in the book and almost all of them have been problematic to find. I believe the author may be more of a GPS guy than we are so we find his instructions to be vague and sometime confusing. Ultimately we find the hike. Additionally, his rating levels for rating the hike difficulty are off. An easy hike (which I would assume I could take my grandmother on) is really not so easy and has some hills. Good thing granny didn't come. Make sure you pay close attention to his levels and realize that even an easy hike can be quite challenging if you're not in shape or older. Lastly, the author make some notations to dog friendly hikes. So far of the 12 hikes we've been on, only 2 allowed dogs and the author is not really clear on the subject. Sometimes he states it out right "no dogs allowed" and other times he doesn't mention it or states they are allowed. We learned from one long drive with the doggie that getting to a hike that does not allow dogs, and not being fairly warned in the book, is no fun for us or the doggie.
I will say that this book has gotten us to explore more of the area than we ever would have and for that we're grateful. However, there is another Sacramento area hiking book and after looking at it in the bookstore, I wish I had bought it instead. I think perhaps the author was rushed to publish and didn't get a chance to finish the important details that matter to a hiker like me.
|
|
| Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |