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Day Hike! Central Cascades: The Best Trails You Can Hike in a Day (Day Hike!) | 
 enlarge | Author: Mike Mcquaide
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 267243
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 157061539X
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781570615399
ASIN: 157061539X
Publication Date: May 28, 2008
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Product Description
In this useful guide, Northwest trail expert Mike McQuaide leads readers to the best day-hike trails in the Central Cascades, from the stunning Olallie Lake Scenic Area in the north to the enchanting Mount Thielsen Wilderness in the south. Day Hike! Central Cascades details classic routes from easy to moderate to extreme, giving hikers the choices they want. This revised edition contains 69 complete trail descriptions with crucial information like estimated hiking time, permits required, special notes on dogs and kids, and double-checked driving directions. The book also contains easy-to-read USGS topographical maps and informative photographs. This updated edition discusses all changes made to the trails, and details on who to contact about the most recent reconstructions. Lively writing and smart advice make this guide one to keep right alongside the water bottles.
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 Great book but incomplete - could have been five stars July 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great book of hikes in the Central Cascades (where I live). While I am already familiar with many hiking trails, the recent birth of our daughter means shorter, easier hikes in our near future and I purchased this book to refamiliarize myself with the trails I learned to hike on.
The book provides a basic guide at the beginning to help you pick hikes by geographic location or by difficulty and the authors subjective rating of the hike. Each hike has a page or more of information, starting with a brief summary, directions and key details, tips or warnings. For example, Franklin Falls is a great hike for beginners - except - there is a potentially difficult and dangerous rock slope to navigate at the end. The author warns of this which is fantastic - I knew from experience that this hike would appeal to less mobile hikers only to present them with a potentially impassable obstacle at the end.
Each hike also includes a basic topographical map that provides a very basic overview of the hikes path as well as an indication of elevation gain. Since this is a book of day hikes I see no need for a full topographical map and none is provided - a criticism of other reviewers that I do not agree with.
Overall this is a very good book minus one glaring issue. There are two hikes missing. I'm not sure which they are, because they are on the overview map but not in the book. A minor issue since the book is packed with hikes but it still disappointed me.
 Poor maps and photos March 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is well written, but the maps are not the best. Also, some of the photos are blurry and could be much better. Its not a bad book and provides another point of view, but Beyond Mount Si: The Best Hikes Within 85 Miles of Seattle is a better book overall.
Normally the Day Hike! books are very good, but this one seems to need a revision with better photos and maps.
 A great guide for the area January 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Mike is a talented writer and Central Cascades is another great guidebook by him. As with his other books this has come with me on many trips.
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