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Zion: Canyoneering | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Jones
Publisher: Canyoneering USA
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 289303
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0978961404
EAN: 9780978961404
ASIN: 0978961404
Publication Date: November 13, 2006
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Product Description
This guidebook leads the leader to forty-nine adventures in and around Utah's Zion National Park. It includes: - Descriptions of selected trails - Thorough information on off-trail classics such as The Subway and The Narrows - Details of technical canyoneering in classic canyons such as Pine Creek, Mystery and Behunin - Valuable pointers on gear, climate, safety and environmental awareness - Sections on the area's history and geology that will enrich your visit. 256 pages including 16 full color plates, 43 maps and 30 black and white photos.
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 Great descriptions, a sufficient guide for every canyon June 9, 2008
I've been following Tom's guides for years now and never once have I been disappointed.
Tom's Book on Zion Canyoneering.... April 14, 2008
Tom did well. This book is an excellent reference for canyoneering in the Zion National Park area. Tom has done the canyons numerous times and with many different hard core canyoneers, he has led newbie groups through many of them and I have to say without a doubt the man knows what he is talking about. Thanks for getting the book out Tom!
Tanya
www.zionnational-park.com
Solid May 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jones' descriptions of the technical sections of Pine Creek, Keyhole, and Middle Echo were accurate and useful. This book is clearer than Michael Kelsey's book on technical options in Zion. Jones' suggestions regarding where to eat near Zion were also great.
A great book May 17, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Definately the most comprehensive book to canyoneering in Zion. All the better known really good canyons seem to be in the book.
A model for such books; buy it locally if you can January 4, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Rather than debate the ethics of such a book in the first place, I'll address how the author has acquitted himself, which is: extremely well. If you're going to write about so delicate, potentially dangerous, and wildly popular an area, this is the way to do it.
Readers will find this a refreshing change from other guidebooks that deal with southern Utah. The text is well written. The maps are nicely done, if spare (you'll need topos anyhow), and the photographs are both enticing and informative. Best of all, the book consistently and repeatedly advocates treading lightly and maintaining a healthy margin of safety. No doubt this has to do with the considerable difficulty of many of the routes described: writing in part for accomplished canyoneers, the author has chosen to treat his readers as equals. Such an approach cannot explain everything, though, since he also generously includes a large number of journeys accessible to lesser mortals. (And one dearly hopes that accomplished canyoneers no longer require guidance in how not to ruin the places they visit.)
The prose is concise, witty, and informative, whereas many such books are chatty yet largely devoid of pertinent information. Some may be put off by this: if you enjoy "Sunset" magazine profiles or Successories posters, look elsewhere. But anyone who actually likes Zion -- or anywhere else in the desert southwest, for that matter -- will be delighted.
The business of prose is no small matter, in my opinion. Unlike so many authors, Jones is educated and it shows: he has the knack for generating simple, muscular sentences that demonstrate a full command of right English as she is spoke. (Jones' literacy will come as a particular relief to readers who have long endured books by a certain author who has occaisonaly to taken of the foto's.) Such crisp and lucid writing makes the book not only more enjoyable but also more authoritative, since the writer's credibility remains intact at the end of each sentence.
Also worthy of praise is Jones' inclusion of summarized accident reports in the back of the book. This might best be described as the Demotivators part of the text; certainly it should help steer neophytes away from routes that are beyond them.
One last point: I bought this book at IME in Salt Lake City. Interested readers might want to try to do something like that, too. Local retailers, like the small press that produced this book, need support. In the case of back-country activity, this is more than mere romanticism. The owners, operators, and employees of small businesses in this trade usually form the first (and, in Utah, often the last) line of defense between wilderness and the spread of Jeeps, ORVs, and oil wells. If you like these places, you should try to support the people who work in and near them.
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