Hiking Grand Teton National Park [Paperback]

Bill Schneider (Author)

Book Description

Series: Regional Hiking Series | Publication Date: June 1, 1999

Grand Teton National Park offers some of the most spectacular hiking trails and panoramic views in the country. Hiking Grand Teton National Park will lead you through deep canyons gouged out by glaciers and over the grandiose divides that define the famous Teton skyline. Enjoy such popular trails as Teton Crest Trail, hike over the Paintbrush Divide to Lake Solitude, or venture into little-known Moose Creek Basin or Owl Creek. All 35 descriptions in Hiking Grand Teton National Park include accurate, up-to-date trail information, maps, and black-and-white photos that reveal the park's dramatic landscapes and varied wildlife. Sections on trip planning, bear awareness, and campsite ratings enhance your safety and enjoyment. Whether you enjoy a strenuous multiday hike or an easy stroll, veteran author and hiker Bill Schneider will direct you to spectacular wild scenery in Hiking Grand Teton National Park.

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From the Back Cover

Towering peaks, abundant wildlife and picturesque lakes make Grand Teton National Park one of the nation's favorite natural treasures. Enjoy such popular trails as Teton Crest Trail, hike over the Paintbrush Divide to Lake Solitude, or venture into little-known Moose Creek Basin or Owl Creek. Whether you enjoy a strenous multiday hike or an easy stroll, the 35 trail descriptions in this book will lead you to the park's dramatic landscapes and varied wildlife.

About the Author

Bill Schneider is the author of nineteen books about the outdoors, including Where the Grizzly Walks: The Future of the Great Bear (Globe Pequot). A former wilderness professional in the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, he is the co-founder and former president of Falcon Publishing. He lives and writes full-time in Helena, Montana.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: FalconGuides; 1st edition (June 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156044875X
• ISBN-13: 978-1560448754
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,884,673 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bill Schneider, the co-founder of Falcon Publishing, is a veteran outdoorsman and author of more than twenty books on backpacking and natural history in the American West. He lives in Helena, Montana.

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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best all-around guide for hiking the Tetons, October 26, 2004

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Arthur Digbee (Indianapolis, IN, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hiking Grand Teton National Park (Paperback)

This guide lists 35 trails, organized by region. Unlike (say) the Yellowstone guide it does not sort the trails into short, medium, and long hikes. Like other Falcon guides, it provides maps of each trail and valuable information about elevations and steepness. Each listing include elevation diagrams that are very useful for letting you know what you are getting yourself into.

This is probably the best all-around guide to hiking the Grand Tetons. It's especially useful for finding good hikes while sitting at home. Bill Schneider writes well and does a good job describing the hikes so that you can decide which ones are best for you. Like other Falcon guides it has a chart listing best flat terrain day hike, best wildlife viewing, most strenuous, best scenery, and so on.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hiking Grand Teton National Park, July 14, 2002

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Ralph C. Goodman "rcg124c41" (Memphis, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hiking Grand Teton National Park (Paperback)

Having read this book and just spent a week using it in hiking in the Tetons, I found it generally useful and accurate. The maps and directions for finding trailheads are good, and the mileage counter provided gives a good indication of progress on the walks. I would make several recommendations for changes, however. First, I disagree with the level of difficulty ranking for some of the trails. For instance, the Amphitheater Lake trail is clearly more strenuous and difficult than the Holly Lake trail. Second, there should be numerical figure giving the actual elevation gain in addition to the useful elevation profile graph. Finally, the book did not include the excellent Hanging Canyon trail, which though unmaintained, is still a great climb. I found the book Day Hiking Grand Teton National Park by Tom Carter to be equally useful and much more packable based on its small size.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent trail book, October 9, 2007

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Geoffrey W. Richardson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hiking Grand Teton National Park, 2nd (Regional Hiking Series) (Paperback)

This book covers only Grand Teton Nat'l Park, which is great beacuse most trail books throw GTNP in with Yellowstone trail books and those never seem to give the attention GTNP deserves. I have vacationed and hiked GTNP several times over the past ten years and purchased more than a few of these books looking for details on the longer hikes while being mindful of the abilities of my children (pre-teen and early teen). This book allows you to plan for both. The author provides elevation profiles for each hike as well as the usual distance and difficulty rating. Like most people, the ratings are always a bit hard to match with one's ability and stamina. The elevation profiles give you a real sense of what you're in for! In addition, each hike is described to you in detail: what you experience, what you'll see, what to watch for, how much time the hike will take, and offer some options for shorter or longer combined hikes. Excellent! If I had to recommend only one of the dozen or so that I have read about GTNP, this would definitely be the one!