Colorado's Lost Creek Wilderness: Classic Summit Hikes [Paperback]

Gerry Roach (Author), Jennifer Roach (Author)

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Publication Date: April 1, 2001

Now, Colorado's Lost Creek Wilderness: Classic Summit Hikes, Gerry Roach, one of the world's most renowned mountaineers and an authority on Colorado's fourteeners, and Jennifer Roach, an expert on the Lost Creek Wilderness, provide outdoor enthusiasts with the first-ever hiking guide to this beautiful area. The hikes in this guide all lead to the summit of a peak, and the summit hikes vary in difficulty from short romps to all-day efforts. The highest summits in the Lost Creek Wilderness rise only a few hundred feet above treeline, but the summit plateaus are special places. You can hike for hours through tree-filled meadows that eventually burst upon a private universe far above roads and cities.

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Some of Colorado's most peaceful mountain trails, cool alpine meadows, and exhilarating summit plateaus are closer than you might think. Only 40 miles southwest of Denver and 48 miles northwest of Colorado Springs, the Lost Creek Wilderness area offers some of the state's most breathtaking networks of box canyons, crooked creeks, twisting trails, rock towers, arches, and 150 mountain peaks.

About the Author

Gerry Roach started climbing in Colorado in 1955. Among his numerous accomplishments, Gerry is the second person ever to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents. In more than 50 years of mountaineering, he has climbed in dozens of states and countries. Jennifer Roach is an expert on Colorado's mountains. She has climbed Colorado's 500 highest peaks and is close to finishing all of Colorado's thirteeners. She has climbed Colorado's mountains for 20 years and knows all about places most of us have never heard of.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing (April 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555912389
• ISBN-13: 978-1555912383
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,040,639 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Gerry Roach started climbing in Colorado in 1955. Among his numerous accomplishments, Gerry is the second person ever to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents. In more than 40 years of mountaineering, he has climbed in dozens of states and countries. Gerry has authored the five books from Fulcrum Publishing listed below, including his newest, Colorado's Thirteeners and Colorado's Lost Creek Wilderness. Both are coauthored with Jennifer Roach. Gerry and Jennifer live in Boulder, Colorado.

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This review is from: Colorado's Lost Creek Wilderness: Classic Summit Hikes (Paperback)

This book is informative for summit hikes, as its title implies, but I found it lacking in any other information. Each route is merely described from trail head to summit, but it doesn't give other info for camping, linking up multiple routes, or why some areas would be better to hike than others. Overall, the scope of the book is very narrow and could do with further embellishment for readers wanting more information on this beautiful area of Colorado.