This title in the acclaimed Afoot & Afield series contains more than 100 carefully described trips in the nine-county region. Included are all the well-known favorites: Mt. Tamalpais, Point Reyes National Seashore, Henry W. Coe and Mt. Diablo state parks, and Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve. The book also features more remote parks and preserves, from the rugged Sonoma coast to hidden canyons south of San Jose, as well as regional open spaces and country parks from the East Bay hills to the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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David Weintraub is a writer, editor, photographer, and educator based in Aiken, SC. He is the author of eight travel books and many articles for publications such as Photo District News, Outdoor Photographer, and Hemispheres. David has a master's degree in journalism and mass communications from the University of South Carolina, where he is a full-time instructor teaching visual communications and writing. David writes two columns each month for the website Black Star Rising, "Notes from the VisCom Classroom" and "Eye on Image-Making."
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If You Choose Just One Hiking Book for the SF Bay Area, This Is It,
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This review is from: Afoot and Afield: San Francisco Bay Area: A Comprehensive Hiking Guide (Paperback)
Wilderness Press has a series of books on the SF Bay Area hiking trails (two of which are written by Weintraub): East Bay Trails, South Bay Trails, North Bay Trails, and Peninsula Trails. Those books are excellent and obviously have the kind of complete and detailed coverage that a single book of the same size cannot offer for the same vast area. But if you wish to buy only a single book on hiking in the SF Bay Area, this one is the best I've seen. It discusses hiking opportunities from Santa Rosa in the north to just outside Santa Cruz in the south. It discusses more hikes than any other book (except the Foghorn one, which however offers no maps). It has excellent maps, along with detailed directions, the attractions of each hike, the best season for the hike, and so on. Unlike those in some other books, the maps included cover more than just the hikes discussed, so in essence it leads you to many more trails than those listed in the book. It also mentions (though does not have the space to discuss in detail) some of the flora and fauna you might notice on the hike, and offers some photos. If you don't get separate books on each area, this is almost certainly the one to get.
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Most comprehensive hiking guide to the CA bay area,
This review is from: Afoot and Afield: San Francisco Bay Area: A Comprehensive Hiking Guide (Paperback)
Great guide to the bay area. If you want just one book for a hiking guide to the bay area this is the one to buy. Truly up to date and will probably surprise most bay area outdoor enthusiasts with the comprehensive hiking coverage of the area. Even after living here for more than a decade I found new reasons to visit parks that had faded in memory. This guy has truly walked these trails. When you see the accuracy of the trail descriptions, the abundance of information on wildflowers and the choice morsels of local lore you know you are walking with a guide whose heart is in his boots. Another great guide book from this author.
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Avoid this, go online.,
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This review is from: Afoot and Afield: San Francisco Bay Area: A Comprehensive Hiking Guide (Paperback)
I have found this the most comprehensive printed area guide, with 113 hikes. It has supplied ideas for many new hikes, but it lacks trail elevation profiles, and has some serious flaws.
For example, I recently used it to discover and hike at Rockville Hills Regional Park. The map and description were too vague and misleading. When I later checked the online Bay Area Hiker, which describes about 560 trails, I found several warnings and advice about hikes there, that were entirely lacking in Weintraub's book. Next time I will rely on online bahiker, maintained by Jane Huber, who wrote "60 Hikes WIthin 60 Miles: San Francisco".
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horses during wet weather, toilet near the trailhead, route description refer, open space preserve, unsigned trail, chaparral pea, elk clover, large paved parking area, retrace your route, trail post, unofficial trail, trail curves right, lace lichen, markers along the trail, entrance kiosk, rolling course, overflow parking area, bush monkeyflower, unsigned fork, coast live oak, seasonal tributary, rising traverse, tanbark oak, hollyleaf cherry, unsigned path Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Francisco, Skyline Blvd, Canyon Trail, Purisima Creek, East Bay, Stevens Creek, Best Times All, Pacific Ocean, San Andreas, Alpine Road, Point Reyes, San Bruno, Meadow Trail, Montara Mountain, Peters Creek, Muir Woods, Santa Cruz Mountains, Windy Hill, Page Mill Road, Peak Trail, San Jose, Russian Ridge, Bald Mountain, Palo Alto, Redwood Creek New!
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