100 Best Denver Area Day Hikes [Paperback]

Pamela Irwin (Author), David Irwin (Author, Photographer)

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Westcliffe Publishers (June 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565794494
• ISBN-13: 978-1565794498
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,905,418 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars TERRIBLE DIRECTIONS..., July 6, 2005

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SMB "Styleenthusiast" (Wyoming) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 100 Best Denver Area Day Hikes (Paperback)

Follow the directions in this book and you will waste precious hiking time driving around looking for trailheads or, worse yet, you'll end up hiking around in vain. We're not bad with directions, either. I'm a former Army land navigation and orienteering instructor, so I knows how to read a map!

It took 6 hikes, but my boyfriend and I finally learned our lesson. We either had great difficulty finding the 6 hikes we selected from this book or ended up not finding them at all! The directions are terrible! For example, the directions given for the hike we went on last weekend -- Silver Dollar Lake -- are quite "off." The book instructs you to drive 1 mile past a campground to a road that will lead you the the trailhead. Well, guess what, that road is located more like .2 miles past the campground. We ended up finding another road that was about 1.1 miles past the campground and hiked up it, only to find that it was a dead-end with no trailhead in sight. Ridiculous.

Beware!

UPDATE: This book still sucks. We thought we've give it another try, after not using it for about a year. This time, we did find the trail, but were met by a sign that said, "No Dogs Permitted." The book did not mention this. We had to leave and seek out another trail because we had our dog with us. Of course, we stupidly tried another hike in the book, which we never did find. Thankfully, we happened across a completely unrelated trail and did enjoy our hike. Don't buy this book. It's not accurate.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor job!, May 20, 2005

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Joseph Keating - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 100 Best Denver Area Day Hikes (Paperback)

A guide book needs clear directions. I followed four of their hikes and got mixed up one way or the other on all four. We headed to one place with a dog, but were met with a 'no pets' policy not mentioned in the book. Or distances were omitted or inaccurate. I hope the authors hear of my complaint - don't just write a book for its shelf appeal.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars bad directions all around, May 31, 2007

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Milo - See all my reviews

This review is from: 100 Best Denver Area Day Hikes (Paperback)

Not only did we find it difficult to find the trailheads but we found it difficult to follow the described trails. The trail directions are not broken out separately but included throughout the narrative. You must have an accompanying trail map to make sense of it. I also found basic info lacking, like this trail is snowbound until June or this trail doesn't allow dogs, etc.

Like the photos, appreciate the descriptions: "saucy chipmunks" and such, but didn't like the lack of basic clarity.