60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Sacramento: Including Davis, Roseville, and Auburn [Paperback]

Jordan Summers (Author)

Book Description

Series: 60 Hikes within 60 Miles | Publication Date: February 5, 2008

With its famed foothills, historic Mother Lode region, and picturesque delta, California's capital and its surrounding area are an excellent hiking destination. But where to begin? Using author Jordan Summers' careful, hiking-based research, this useful guide introduces area residents and visitors to an array of the best day-hikes — from casual riverside nature walks to rugged foothill treks — within roughly an hour’s drive of the city. The book's detailed descriptions help hikers choose routes with concise, at-a-glance information that highlights details such as location, access, directions, distances, and scenery. There's also preparation advice to help hikers get the most from each outing. Extensive and precise maps, descriptive text, a wealth of black-and-white photos, and trailhead coordinates guide hikers on their way and keep them on-route.

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About the Author

Elizabeth Hodgson is a Wiradjuri woman who lives in Wollongong on the New South Wales south coast. She was born in Wellington, New South Wales, but spent her childhood in a home for fair-skinned Aboriginal children in Sydney. She writes from the perspective of a fair-skinned Aboriginal woman with a dark-skinned father about the racism which has permeated her life. Elizabeth sits on the panel of the NSW Ministry for the Arts Advisory Council, the Indigenous Arts Reference Group and is chair of the South Coast Writers' Centre, and facilitates, mentors and writes for the centre's Aboriginal Oral History Project --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press; 1st edition (February 5, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0897325567
• ISBN-13: 978-0897325561
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #362,007 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An Ok Guide. Needs improvement, July 3, 2008

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Hiker Chick (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Sacramento: Including Davis, Roseville, and Auburn (Paperback)

This book is fairly well put together and written decently. We live in Sacramento and we even met the author at a recent REI event. However, we've been on about 12 of the hikes in the book and almost all of them have been problematic to find. I believe the author may be more of a GPS guy than we are so we find his instructions to be vague and sometime confusing. Ultimately we find the hike. Additionally, his rating levels for rating the hike difficulty are off. An easy hike (which I would assume I could take my grandmother on) is really not so easy and has some hills. Good thing granny didn't come. Make sure you pay close attention to his levels and realize that even an easy hike can be quite challenging if you're not in shape or older. Lastly, the author make some notations to dog friendly hikes. So far of the 12 hikes we've been on, only 2 allowed dogs and the author is not really clear on the subject. Sometimes he states it out right "no dogs allowed" and other times he doesn't mention it or states they are allowed. We learned from one long drive with the doggie that getting to a hike that does not allow dogs, and not being fairly warned in the book, is no fun for us or the doggie.

I will say that this book has gotten us to explore more of the area than we ever would have and for that we're grateful. However, there is another Sacramento area hiking book and after looking at it in the bookstore, I wish I had bought it instead. I think perhaps the author was rushed to publish and didn't get a chance to finish the important details that matter to a hiker like me.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars More things wrong than right, August 25, 2008

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Brendon Scholtz - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Sacramento: Including Davis, Roseville, and Auburn (Paperback)

I've only done 2 hikes out of this book but the directions and descriptions were all waaay off. Elevations were wrong, directions to the trailhead were off, difficulty rating was meaningless and the total distances were off by over 20%. One of the trails looked as if it had been abandoned years before (and was actually somewhat dangerous) but there were two others in the same area that weren't even mentioned. The publishing date of 2008 led me to believe that the book was up to date...it isn't. Overall a tremendous disappointment. This book won't be coming with us anymore.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Hikes, September 3, 2009

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Cadillacrazy "cadillacrazy" (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Sacramento: Including Davis, Roseville, and Auburn (Paperback)

I love to layout and information this book provides. at each hike, there is a list of essential info; Length, difficulty, scenery, water required, trail traffic, surface, time, facilities, and usually lets you know if dogs are allowed (I found one of the four hikes that I went on out of this book that did allow dogs, but was not mentioned in the book).

I found that of the four hikes I've done so far in this book, the information was mostly correct, but I would personally like to see less "cakewalk" rated hikes and more challenging options. One of the hikes I went on the instructions lacked a few key info like the fact that the road we were supposed to stay on for 2.5 miles turned in several places, and was not well marked. I always supplement with instructions online before I go anywhere, so it wasn't really a problem.

I also have the SF version of the 60 hikes series, and really like that one as well.