Customer Reviews

Hiking Montana, 3rd: 25th Anniversary Edition (State Hiking Guides Series)

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The book is well written and is organized in a way that allows you to find a hike based on the area you are looking at. Descriptions and directions seem to be accurate.

Very informative book. There are several hikes in it I have already hiked and I have found some I would like to hike.

The book's information and descriptions for the trails it has are decent, but it's missing quite a few of them I personally know in the Missoula area. Some of the lesser known trails' omission is forgivable, but not listing Blue Mountain? I mean, come on. That would be like listing attractions in San Diego, and not mentioning the zoo.

If you're hoping for an end-all reference encylopedia of Montana trails like I was, this ain't it. But, if you're happy with a rather spotty listing of trails mostly focused around waterways, this is your book.

I bought an earlier edition of this book, along with Hiking Wyoming by the same publisher.
I didn't get to either of those states yet to try out any of the hikes but I did notice that both books contain the identical information about bears -
they don't distinguish between black and grizzly bears and the advice they give is TOTALLY WRONG for black bears and likely to get someone killed!
They clearly didn't do their research properly (if at all) in this case - I hope the rest of the book is better quality!