Foghorn Outdoors Easy Biking in Northern California [Paperback]

Ann Marie Brown (Author)

Book Description

Series: Foghorn Outdoors | Publication Date: October 19, 2004

Covering Tahoe, Mammoth, the Redwoods, Lassen, Yosemite, Mendocino, San Francisco Bay Area, Shasta, and Monterey, this is your biking guide to finding the best easy rides throughout Northern California. Families, day-trippers, and seasoned riders looking for a change of pace will all find the perfect trail among the options selected by veteran biker Ann Marie Brown. This guidebook provides updated, easy-to-use region and trail maps, photos and illustrations, descriptive keynotes for every geographical region, and steepness and skill ratings for each ride. Detailed descriptions let you know when a trail visits a waterfall, scenic overlook, or wildflower field. Complete with helpful information, including tips for "Biking with Kids" and an appendix of Northern California biking clubs, Foghorn Outdoors Easy Biking in Northern California has everything you need for great easy biking in the northern half of the Golden State.

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Review

Meticulously researched and smartly written, Foghorn Outdoors offers some of the best recreation guides around. The books provide exceptionally reliable information on each location and activity, while emphasizing sensible, low-impact enjoyment of the outdoors.

Product Details

• Paperback: 260 pages
• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; 3rd edition (October 19, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566916739
• ISBN-13: 978-1566916738
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 1 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,032,180 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful, but could be better....., February 2, 2007

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Patrick D. Goonan "see profile for URL" (Livermore, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Foghorn Outdoors Easy Biking in Northern California (Paperback)

This is a useful book for any cyclist, but especially for people who want a nice easy ride. It covers scenic routes in Northern California including in the Tahoe, SF Bay, Foothills, Mt. Shasta area and several others. Each ride is given a brief description, a difficulty rating, distance, approximate time to complete and a rating of the steepness. There are pictures and maps here and there, but there could be more. If you enjoy scenic bike rides that are relatively short, you will get a lot of use out of this book. However, many of the areas have changed rapidly over the last few years and you may find the rides somewhat different than what you expected. I know it's difficult to keep up with progress in California, but I think the author tends to be overly optimistic and doesn't mention some of the hassles in various areas caused by building, new growth, etc. If you don't live in CA, this might be a problem if you are planning a vacation around various biking tours.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We love these books - great guides for easy biking and hiking!, September 1, 2008

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Ms M (Northern Calif) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Foghorn Outdoors Easy Biking in Northern California (Paperback)

We have both from this author - guides for finding easy biking and hiking trails. My guy has a bad back, so we have to plan ahead to make sure we don't over-stress his back when we're on an outing - and these guidebooks are great - the trails are rated according to distance between trailheads (and from parking to trailhead), trail terrain (e.g. paved vs dirt), and changes in elevation -- all the important factors for us to consider whether a given trail is right for us on any given day. Kudos to the author (our only request is that the author keep going with this great idea and rate similar trails throughout the whole country, and heck, why not the whole planet?). thanks!

3 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Tom Stienstra is a great author, but he didn't do this book., October 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Foghorn Outdoors: Easy Biking in Northern California (Paperback)

Tom Stienstra has written many excellent outdoor guidebooks, and my favorite is "California Camping" which I use all the time. It's fantastic! But just so you know, he didn't write the book, "Easy Biking in Northern California," though I wish he did because his writing style is one-of-a-kind, and his books are always award winners.