Customer Reviews

Best Easy Day Hikes Santa Fe, 2nd (Best Easy Day Hikes Series)

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Linda Regnier Black and Katie Regnier have written a very nice guide to 25 relatively easy hikes near Santa Fe. The second edition has dropped a number of hikes, and added several others based on comments from users of the first edition. All of the necessary information is presented in a very friendly way for beginning (and even advanced) hikers.

At this writing, Amazon does not allow one to look inside the book, but several representative pages are available on Google Books.

I consider the sixth edition of Day Hikes in the Santa Fe Area by the local chapter of the Sierra Club to be a superior guide. It presents 60 hikes of varying levels of difficulty (but about the same number of easy hikes as this book) and at about the same price.

Both guides do an excellent job of preparing a beginning hiker for the beautiful trails in this region.

Robert C. Ross 2008

We used this on on our recent vacation to Santa Fe and found it to be very useful. It is physically small enough to fit in a shirt pocket during a hike. We are casual hikers, typically hiking in the mornings and doing other sight-seeing in the afternoons, rarely hiking more than six or seven miles and avoiding trails rated as difficult. This book was just about perfect for our needs, although serious backpackers might scoff. I would definitely look for other titles in the series for future vacations elsewhere.

Delivery was fast and the book was in perfect condition. Easier than driving to a book store and trying to find what you need. I just clicked, purchased,and received. It doesn't get any easier than that.

Writer seems to really care about feedback and making book easy to use, helpful, and easy to buy. I complained there was no index on Amazon (Look INSIDE feature), and now there is one. Will seriously think about purchasing next time I'm making a trip to Santa Fe to visit Adieb Khadoure Fine Art on Canyon Road, where I show my work. I'll be using the guide to pick areas to make oil paintings at home in my Virtual Plein Air studio back in Boston, MA, so it's essential that I get the very best views on a short trip.

I'll be sure to further flesh out this review after I purchase and use this book, but I can say that adding the "Look Inside" feature in response to customer feedback is a really good sign of a user friendly author.