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100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park | 
 enlarge | Author: Marc J. Soares
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 158609
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 286
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 089886867X
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.94470454
EAN: 9780898868678
ASIN: 089886867X
Publication Date: May 2003
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Product Description
Your guide to the best assortment of family walks, day hikes, overnighters, weekend trips, and backpacking adventures that Yosemite National Park has to offer! 100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park includes Yosemite Valley (Half Dome, Yosemite Falls, El Capitan), Tuolumne Meadows (great for peak bagging), Hetch Hechy Reservoir (excellent, less trafficked trails above the reservoir and along the Tuolumne River), Wawona (see the giant Sequioas), and Glacier Point area (more opportunity for solitude yet less than an hour outside the valley). 90% of the trails presented are easily accessible by car
Tips for avoiding peak foot traffic times on most trails
More than 100 color photos--a wonderful keepsake from your trip
Trail guide index indicates ideal wildflower excursions, top family outings, birdwatching trails, and more Bonus hikes in the surrounding Hoover and Ansel Adams Wilderness areas, plus Mammoth Lakes and Sonora Pass--great for avoiding crowds in the summer.
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 I love this book! February 21, 2008
I use this book every time I go to Yose. I think this book is easy for me to use because I have been to Yose. so many times that I can visualize the maps and can anticipate what the trails will be like. I beleive that if you have never been to Yosemite it might be difficult to plan out a few hikes with accurate expectations and I do agree that a topo map would help to determine how strenuous a trail might be! Regardless I love the book... I even look at when Im not going to Yose. just for the memories and excitement it creates!
Excellent and comprehensive November 9, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The only thing not to like about this book is its weight, which discourages you from taking it along on a hike. That aside, it is blessed with great color photos, good trail maps, elevation gains, how to get to the trailhead, and generally everything you need in a hiking guide. If you only buy one Yosemite hiking guide, this should be it.
 Nice book but be careful June 21, 2005
17 out of 23 found this review helpful
I purchased this book for a trip that my wife and I were to take to Yosemite. As a reference I backpack for 5 to 15 day trips every year. My wife looked at the book and some of the hikes I had talked about and couldn't figure out the maps.
Looking over the book I could see why. The only friendly way to say it is that the maps are pretty and pretty useless. They are the type of maps you would find on a treasure hunt breakfast cereal box and SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR ANY PLANNING PURPOSES. Purchase a topo map from the USGS or a backpacking supply house and then use this book to find out where in Yosemite a described hike really is and what the countryside is like around it.
One mile walks look the same as a 16 mile several day hike. Every map takes great license with the topology and direction of orientation. Follow one map to the next on a trail and you will get lost since the first puts north at the top of a page, the next shrinks it and flips north to the bottom of the page and the next slants north off to the left while changing the size of landmarks again.
The natural guides are nice. The verbal descriptions are nice. The rating of the hikes are fine. The maps are cute but border on being dangerously so. Sorry but I feel that a hiking guide that has bad maps is not appropriate. It would have been better to have none in the book.
Great Book! March 10, 2004
16 out of 21 found this review helpful
Beautiful guide and thorough examination of the myriad of hikes one can take in and around Yosemite National Park. Excellent graphics and map layouts. Detailed description of the hikes, trailheads and parking. Good descriptions of what you can expect to encounter along the way as far as hiking time, high points in elevation you will encounter (along with the hikes averaged elevation gain) and the hike's relative difficulty ranked from easy to strenuous (with some hikes running the gamut of just that in the very hike itself). Also, the best seasons for each hike are included.
A good job of was also done of including the various contact numbers that might be of interest to those planning to visit the Park plus required permits and tips on what wildlife/insect life you can expect to encounter along the way.
The author has thoughtfully included various safety tips concerning what to bring and a nice section on wilderness ethics. For those hikers looking to do a quick scan of what each various hike has to offer, there's a helpful trail index in the back of the book.
Personally, my favorite sections were the hikes surrounding Mono Lake, especially hike No. 50 with it's detailed information on the lake itself, it's strange composition and insect inhabitants. A description of Mono and its tufa castles as "a sci-fi dream city" seems entirely appropriate.
Special distinction must be made of the book's photographs, most credited to the author, which are gorgeous! Some are simply jaw dropping. Helpfully included in the book's introduction is a section on taking photographs in Yosemite -- although one would be hard-pressed to match some of the photographs he has included. One would hope for a future publication devoted entirely to the author's photographs.
Pretty easy to see why "100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park" has recently garnered the prestigious distinction of winning the 2003 National Outdoor Book Award (NOBA) for best guidebook.
If you're planning to hike Yosemite, don't leave home without it. Good job!
 2nd. edition needed. February 21, 2004
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I like the basic organization of this book.
Many useful photos and easy to understand trail maps.
(But do not reply on them while hiking.)
I use this book to get an idea for my next hiking destination.
However the 2nd edition is needed to correct some easy
to spot errors. Fo example, ten photos are described with wrong mountain names.
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