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The Colorado Trail Databook (Colorado Mountain Club Pack Guides)

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This is a book specifically for navigating the Colorado Trail while hiking. It's not for people who live in one area or another of Colorado per se, and it is a condensed resource of what the full guide contains, so that you may find water sources, road crossings, and campsites while hiking the Colorado Trail. For that purpose, it is the best guide (and the only guide!) on the market.

If you have an AT or PCT databook, it's a lot like those that except substitute westbound/eastbound with northbound/southbound. If you've done section or thru-hiking before and just need to know what's ahead of you, this book is great.

The databook is a good alternative or complement to the CMC press 'official guidebook', so I'm just going to make that comparison alone. Don't get me wrong, the guidebook is a great resource also full of 'Gudy's tips' and some other casual hiker fluff such as wildlife ethics, hiking lore, how-to-pack, going light, etc; but this databook doesn't have any of that stuff. Instead it is compact, lighter and gives a good at-a-glance breakdown of just mileage, milestones/towns, elevation and most importantly water sources and resupply opportunities.

I'm sure this book is good if you live in certain areas of Colorado. Don't buy it if you live around Colorado Springs though. The book is extremely difficult to understand in my opinion. Use the internet if you are looking for trails.