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Hiking Grand Teton National Park, 2nd (Hiking Guide Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Bill Schneider
Publisher: Falcon
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 85159
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0762725672
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.8755
EAN: 9780762725670
ASIN: 0762725672
Publication Date: June 1, 2005
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Product Description
The authoritative guide to all of the hiking trails in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, famous for its rugged beauty and spectacular mountain vistas.
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Towering peaks, abundant wildlife and picturesque lakes make Grand Teton National Park one of the nation's favorite natural treasures. Enjoy such popular trails as Teton Crest Trail, hike over the Paintbrush Divide to Lake Solitude, or venture into little-known Moose Creek Basin or Owl Creek. Whether you enjoy a strenous multiday hike or an easy stroll, the 35 trail descriptions in this book will lead you to the park's dramatic landscapes and varied wildlife.
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 Excellent trail book October 9, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book covers only Grand Teton Nat'l Park, which is great beacuse most trail books throw GTNP in with Yellowstone trail books and those never seem to give the attention GTNP deserves. I have vacationed and hiked GTNP several times over the past ten years and purchased more than a few of these books looking for details on the longer hikes while being mindful of the abilities of my children (pre-teen and early teen). This book allows you to plan for both. The author provides elevation profiles for each hike as well as the usual distance and difficulty rating. Like most people, the ratings are always a bit hard to match with one's ability and stamina. The elevation profiles give you a real sense of what you're in for! In addition, each hike is described to you in detail: what you experience, what you'll see, what to watch for, how much time the hike will take, and offer some options for shorter or longer combined hikes. Excellent! If I had to recommend only one of the dozen or so that I have read about GTNP, this would definitely be the one!
Best all-around guide for hiking the Tetons October 26, 2004
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
This guide lists 35 trails, organized by region. Unlike (say) the Yellowstone guide it does not sort the trails into short, medium, and long hikes. Like other Falcon guides, it provides maps of each trail and valuable information about elevations and steepness. Each listing include elevation diagrams that are very useful for letting you know what you are getting yourself into.
This is probably the best all-around guide to hiking the Grand Tetons. It's especially useful for finding good hikes while sitting at home. Bill Schneider writes well and does a good job describing the hikes so that you can decide which ones are best for you. Like other Falcon guides it has a chart listing best flat terrain day hike, best wildlife viewing, most strenuous, best scenery, and so on.
 Pretty good overview of the Teons September 7, 2004
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book gives a pretty good summary of the hiking trails in Grand Teton National Park. My one complaint would be regarding the trail for Granite Canyon/Rendevous mountains (Chapter 3). The elevation map showed the trail being flat at the end. You actually ascend a bit at the end. I wish I had known that before because I was pretty tired at the end. Other than that, I found the book accurate, and a a great guide to hiking in the area.
Hiking Grand Teton National Park July 14, 2002
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
Having read this book and just spent a week using it in hiking in the Tetons, I found it generally useful and accurate. The maps and directions for finding trailheads are good, and the mileage counter provided gives a good indication of progress on the walks. I would make several recommendations for changes, however. First, I disagree with the level of difficulty ranking for some of the trails. For instance, the Amphitheater Lake trail is clearly more strenuous and difficult than the Holly Lake trail. Second, there should be numerical figure giving the actual elevation gain in addition to the useful elevation profile graph. Finally, the book did not include the excellent Hanging Canyon trail, which though unmaintained, is still a great climb. I found the book Day Hiking Grand Teton National Park by Tom Carter to be equally useful and much more packable based on its small size.
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