Hiking Arizona's Cactus Country, 2nd [Paperback]

Erik Molvar (Author)

Book Description

Series: Regional Hiking Series | Publication Date: September 1, 2000

Ninety-eight hikes in the Sonoran Desert.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: FalconGuides; 2nd edition (September 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156044794X
• ISBN-13: 978-1560447948
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #898,405 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Veteran author and backcountry explorer Erik Molvar discovered backpacking while working on a volunteer trails crew in the North Cascades of Washington. He is the author of more than a dozen FalconGuides for such places as Glacier National Park, the Bob Marshall Wilderness, Olympic National Park, Zion and Bryce Canyon National Park, as well as Hiking Colorado's Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The green desert, January 12, 2005

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Smallchief - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hiking Arizona's Cactus Country, 2nd (Paperback)

I once ran into a Mauritanian from the Sahara who had been in Arizona. He scorned the Arizona desert. "It's not a real desert," said he, "there are plants." So there are. The Arizona desert is lush and diverse and, when the weather's not too hot, offers some of the best walking you will find anywhere. If it's too hot in the lowlands, go uphill and try some of the high-elevation hikes described in this book.

This hiking guide contains descriptions of 98 hikes in southern Arizona ranging in length from about 1 mile to 20 miles. For each hike there is a map and a description on how to get there, information on difficulty, availability of water, elevation, etc. Hikes are described in the Chricahua Mountains, the Border ranges, Huachuca Mountains, Aravaipa Country, Pinaleno Mountains, Saguaro National Park, Santa Catalina Mountains, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, and Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.

I used the guide for hikes in Saguaro National Park and several other areas and found it reliable and informative. Unfortunately, as of 2004, several of the most interesting trails described in the book are closed because of a forest fire in the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson. Hopefully, they will be reopened soon.

Smallchief

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, January 25, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Hiking Arizona's Cactus Country (FalconGuide) (Paperback)

I used the book to find some trails in the Saguaro National Monument. One specific trail was the Yetman Trail. Erik described the access to it and the difficulty of the trail clearly. Look forward to using it more on my trips to Arizona.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good desciption of hiking diffaculty, October 28, 2006

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Peter L. Tompkins (Marana, AZ.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hiking Arizona's Cactus Country, 2nd (Paperback)

very good on trail conditions from what you'll see to telling you what is a better trail depending on sesoinal conditions.