Canadian Rockies Access Guide [Paperback]

John Dodd (Author), Gail Helgason (Author)

Book Description

Series: Canadian Rockies Access Guide | Publication Date: July 1998

Completely revised and expanded from the original best-selling book of the same name, this essential guide for exploring the Canadian Rockies includes day hikes, backpacking, boating, camping, cycling, fishing and rainy day activities. Covers Banff, Jasper, Kootenay, Yoho, Waterton and Kananaskis parks. Full color photos, maps and wildlife illustrations.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A good guidebook. --New York Times

I strongly recommend The Canadian Rockies Access Guide. --Edmonton Journal --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

JOHN DODD and GAIL HELGASON have hiked, cycled, backpacked, canoed, climbed, cross-country skied and kayaked in the Canadian Rockies for more than 35 years. Both former outdoors columnists for the Edmonton Journal, John and Gail are also the authors of Bicycle Alberta and The Canadian Rockies Bicycling Guide. They have written about the outdoors for a variety of publications, including Outside, Nature Canada and Bicycling. Gail is also the author of Fracture Patterns, a collection of literary short stories about urban dwellers seeking wilderness adventure in the Canadian Rockies. John is a Senior Communications Advisor with EPCOR. Gail heads Context Communications Inc., a professional writing and communications firm. They live in St. Albert, Alberta. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: Lone Pine Pub; 4 edition (July 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1551051761
• ISBN-13: 978-1551051765
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,293,903 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Ultimate Hiking Guide for the Canadian Rockies, September 1, 2003

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This review is from: Canadian Rockies Access Guide (Paperback)

This book is primarily a hiking guide. For that, it's tops. It covers all the hiking trails you need to know about in Banff, Kootenay, Yoho, Jasper (including the Icefields), Kananaskis, and Waterton National Parks. Includes excellent color photographs, basic maps, trail descriptions and for each hike a summary indicating the distance, time, rating (easy, moderate, difficult), maximum elevation, elevation gain, what footwear to have on, and the best season for the hike (i.e. May through October or July and Aug. only).

This book is also good for the general tourist since many of the attractions in the national parks (waterfalls, hot springs, canyons) are a 5 to 15 minute "hike" from their respective parking lots, and these sights are all covered in this book.

There are a few pages of general information on each national park in the front of each chapter and a decent "detailed guide to outdoor activities" in the back.

I used this book for my trip last year to Banff and Jasper National Parks and loved it. This year I forgot the book at home. Distressed, my first stop when I got off the plane in Canada was to a bookstore where I bought another copy!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Accurate descriptions of hikes, September 23, 2005

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Light Travellers (Central Massachusetts, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Canadian Rockies Access Guide (Paperback)

We used this book on our recent visit to Banff and Jasper National Parks to find and detirmine which hikes we took.
The book provided accurate information on the hike (elevation change and distance) and also provided enough info on "how to find the trail head parking location"
The book is a hiking guide - it is NOT a general purpose tourist guide.
If you are interested in hiking more then just short walks - looking for 2 to 4 hours hikes then we found this book to be very useful on our trip.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Can Rockies book bar none,, February 22, 2007

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S. Vincent (Cincinnati, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canadian Rockies Access Guide (Paperback)

Having been to the Canadian Rockies and having read several other books (Lonely Planet, Frommers, etc) I can qualify this as the prettiest in terms of pictures and most accurate when it comes to trails.


Some of the other books have small topo maps and or tables of hikes but this book gives fine descriptions along with gorgeous pics.
A vacation up North wouldn't be complete without this guide.