Hiking the San Francisco Bay Area: A Guide to the Bay Area's Greatest Hiking Adventures [Paperback]

Linda Anne Hamilton (Author)

Book Description

Series: Regional Hiking Series | Publication Date: April 1, 2003

This volume features more than 40 of the Bay Area's greatest hikes, with detailed descriptions and superb maps for each trail. Each chapter also includes an elevation profile, difficulty rating, trail contacts, and much more. This is the best hiking guide available to the San Francisco Bay area.

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From the Back Cover

Lace up your boots and sample forty of the finest trails the San Francisco Bay Area has to offer. This guide covers every corner of this beautiful and diverse region, leading you to roaring waterfalls and wind-whipped mountaintops, verdant forests and wildflower-covered meadows. See majestic redwoods in the nature lover's cathedral in Muir woods, watch for whales along Lighthouse Trail at Point Reyes National Seashore, or wander through military history in The Presidio. Veteran hiker and Bay Area native Linda Hamilton will introduce you to these trails and many more.
Inside you'll find: up-to-date trail information; accurate directions to popular as well as less-traveled trails; difficulty ratings for each hike; detailed trail maps; zero-impact camping tips.
Whether you are a day-tripper or long-distance hiker, old hand or novice, you'll find trails suited to every ability and interest in the Bay Area.

About the Author

After nine years of teaching high school English, drama, and college composition, and with an MA in English under her belt, Linda Hamilton set out to achieve the daunting goal of writing for a living. Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, American Heritage of Invention and Technology Magazine, MyFamily Travel newsletters, Americaslibrary.gov, and many online business sites. She resides with her husband Doug in their Oakland home.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: FalconGuides; 1st edition (April 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762712066
• ISBN-13: 978-0762712069
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,816,562 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Heavy, April 30, 2003

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Tim (Alameda, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hiking the San Francisco Bay Area: A Guide to the Bay Area's Greatest Hiking Adventures (Paperback)

A nice sampling of hikes but not enough variety to warrant all the pages. This isn't a book I can take along in my pack so I've had to photocopy pages which is a little inconvenient. This is more a book for beginning hikers. The hike selections weren't chanllenging enough for me.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not accurate at best., January 9, 2005

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Hiker Babe (San Francisco Bay Area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hiking the San Francisco Bay Area: A Guide to the Bay Area's Greatest Hiking Adventures (Paperback)

My hiking buddy has taken this book along on several of the hikes that we have done. More than once, we have come to an intersection where the book says to go straight but it's a T-intersection and we can only go right or left. And true to Murphy's law, the book will never have a map of that section to help you out. Also, a few of the hikes where she said was a "slight hill climb" turn out to be monstrously strenuous. While some other parts of hikes that she said were difficult were terribly easy. I've long since doubted that she has done these hikes herself because no one who's actually been out on these trails can describe them that inaccurately. There are better books out there, stay away from this one.