Hiking Canyonlands and Arches National Parks (eBook)

A Guide to the Parks' Greatest Hikes

Bill Schneider (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013 | 3., Third Edition
240 Seiten
Falcon Guides (Verlag)
978-0-7627-9465-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A comprehensive guide to the trails and backcountry roads of Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

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Lace up your boots and sample more than sixty of the finest hiking trails in southeastern Utah, where the breathtaking canyons, multicolored sandstone arches, and magnificent spires of Canyonlands and Arches National Parks provide the setting for countless outdoor adventures. Let veteran hiker Bill Schneider lead you past eight sandstone arches on the Devils Garden Trail in Arches National Park; take you over slickrock to the Harvest Scene panel in the remote Maze District; and show you the sweeping view of White Rim Country through awesome Mesa Arch in the Island in the Sky District. With Hiking Canyonlands and Arches National Parks in hand, you'll discover the most spectacular trails and amazing scenery Utah's red rock country has to offer.Inside you'll find:Accurate directions to popular as well as less-traveled trailsIn-depth trail informationDifficulty ratings for each hikeDetailed trail mapsGPS coordinates for all trailheadsOutstanding color photographyWhether you're a day-tripper or long-distance hiker, old hand or novice, you'll find trails suited to every ability and interest in Hiking Canyonlands and Arches National Parks.

Autor

Bill Schneider has spent forty years hiking trails all across America. During college in the mid-1960s, he worked on a trail crew in Glacier National Park and became a hiking addict. He spent the 1970s publishing Montana Outdoors magazine for the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks while covering as many miles of trails as possible on weekends and holidays. In 1979 Bill and his partner, Mike Sample, founded Falcon Publishing. Since then he has written twenty books and hundreds of magazine articles on wildlife, outdoor recreation, and conservation issues. Bill has also taught classes on bicycling, backpacking, zero-impact camping, and hiking in bear country for the Yellowstone Institute, a nonprofit educational organization in Yellowstone National Park.In 2000 Bill retired from his position as president of Falcon Publishing (now part of Globe Pequot Press) after it had grown into the premier publisher of outdoor recreation guidebooks, with more than 800 titles in print. During the early 21st Century, he worked as an Acquisition Editor for Globe Pequot Press and Travel and Outdoor Editor for NewWest.Net, a regional online magazine. He now lives in Helena, Montana, with his wife, Marnie, and works as a publishing consultant and freelance writer.For more details, go to www.billschneider.net.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.2.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Regional Hiking Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Hotel- / Restaurantführer
• Schlagworte: Arches National Park • Bill Schneider • Canyonlands National Park • Color Photography • Devils Garden Trail • difficulty ratings • Falcon Guide • GPS coordinates • Guidebook • Harvest Scene panel • Hikes • Hiking • Island in the Sky District • less-traveled trails • Maps • Maze District • Mesa Arch • outdoor adventures • red rock country • Rocky Mountains • sandstone arches • Southwest • spires • trailheads • Trails • Utah • West • White Rim Country
• ISBN-10: 0-7627-9465-8 / 0762794658
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7627-9465-2 / 9780762794652