60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Sacramento (60 Hikes - Menasha Ridge) (Paperback)

by Jordan Summers (Author)
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Product Description

With its famed foothills, historic Mother Lode region, and picturesque delta, California's capital and its surrounding area are an excellent hiking destination. But where to begin? Using author Jordan Summers' careful, hiking-based research, this useful guide introduces area residents and visitors to an array of the best day-hikes — from casual riverside nature walks to rugged foothill treks — within roughly an hour’s drive of the city. The book's detailed descriptions help hikers choose routes with concise, at-a-glance information that highlights details such as location, access, directions, distances, and scenery. There's also preparation advice to help hikers get the most from each outing. Extensive and precise maps, descriptive text, a wealth of black-and-white photos, and trailhead coordinates guide hikers on their way and keep them on-route.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press; 1st edition (February 5, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0897325567
• ISBN-13: 978-0897325561
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #267,820 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An Ok Guide. Needs improvement, July 3, 2008

By	Hiker Chick (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews

This book is fairly well put together and written decently. We live in Sacramento and we even met the author at a recent REI event. However, we've been on about 12 of the hikes in the book and almost all of them have been problematic to find. I believe the author may be more of a GPS guy than we are so we find his instructions to be vague and sometime confusing. Ultimately we find the hike. Additionally, his rating levels for rating the hike difficulty are off. An easy hike (which I would assume I could take my grandmother on) is really not so easy and has some hills. Good thing granny didn't come. Make sure you pay close attention to his levels and realize that even an easy hike can be quite challenging if you're not in shape or older. Lastly, the author make some notations to dog friendly hikes. So far of the 12 hikes we've been on, only 2 allowed dogs and the author is not really clear on the subject. Sometimes he states it out right "no dogs allowed" and other times he doesn't mention it or states they are allowed. We learned from one long drive with the doggie that getting to a hike that does not allow dogs, and not being fairly warned in the book, is no fun for us or the doggie.

I will say that this book has gotten us to explore more of the area than we ever would have and for that we're grateful. However, there is another Sacramento area hiking book and after looking at it in the bookstore, I wish I had bought it instead. I think perhaps the author was rushed to publish and didn't get a chance to finish the important details that matter to a hiker like me.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars More things wrong than right, August 25, 2008

By	Brendon Scholtz - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've only done 2 hikes out of this book but the directions and descriptions were all waaay off. Elevations were wrong, directions to the trailhead were off, difficulty rating was meaningless and the total distances were off by over 20%. One of the trails looked as if it had been abandoned years before (and was actually somewhat dangerous) but there were two others in the same area that weren't even mentioned. The publishing date of 2008 led me to believe that the book was up to date...it isn't. Overall a tremendous disappointment. This book won't be coming with us anymore.