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Hiking Maui : The Valley Isle

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Sorry, but this book just didn't do it for me. I just got back from 3 weeks on Maui, staying with locals. Most of the available trails are indeed in the book, but the maps and descriptions are sometimes wrong or simply out of date. With today's technology, there's no excuse for hand-drawn "not to scale" maps. For the next revision, I'd suggest that the author go through the entire book, synchronize it with reality and bring it up to the same quality level as other guide books. If you're interested in some hikes that aren't in this book, see the hiking section of the excellent guidebook "Maui Revealed".

Hiking Maui is one of the best treasures that you can have if you enjoy hiking and the adventures that it has in store. My husband and I love this book. I am born and raised here and my husband has lived here for 4 years and we have found this book to be very resourceful. Many hikes take you to spectacular waterfalls and most of all, to breathtaking scenery. A suggestion: If you have the time stay in some of the cabins at the national parks!

I have to agree with the other reviewers about the format of this book. My biggest issue with the book is that the maps are nothing more than what appear to be pencil sketches inserted into the hike descriptions. Very amateurish and not detailed enough. There's also a table at the beginning of the book that tries to summarize various characteristics of each hike, but it's too hard to read: it crams too much information into the table and the entries on each line don't exactly line up. Turning the table to landscape, using Excel-like technology to produce a crisp table and expanding some of the abbreviations would make it far more useful. This book won't be taking up space in my suitcase on my upcoming trip. Time to research another one.

Got this book a couple of years ago for our trip to Maui. We took it with us and found that a lot of the places that looked so good, are no longer accessable to the public. It wasn't real helpful.