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Hiking Wyoming's Cloud Peak Wilderness

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I live in Wyoming within 40 miles of the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area, and have been hiking in it off and on for the past 20 years. On the hikes I've taken since purchasing the book, I found Mr. Molvar's guide useful. The trail descriptions and ratings are accurate for the hikes I've compared to the text, and the author has a clear easy to read style.

I recommend this book. It will not take the place of a detailed map or tell all that one may discover on a particular hike, but it is a useful tool.

I lived in the Buffalo, WY area for ten years and bought this book to help plan a "homecoming" backpacking trip from afar. Erik Molvar's book covers all the classic trails in the Cloud Peak Wilderness area. In addition, the last half of the book covers hikes in the Big Horn Mountains outside the interior wilderness area. Apparently one reviewer who is not from the area missed this fact. This book is an excellent introduction to the Big Horn Mountains and will guide you through the marvelous scenery of one the the West's least visited but truly unique mountain ranges.

I live in Wyoming within 40 miles of the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area, and have been hiking in it off and on for the past 20 years. On the hikes I've taken since purchasing the book, I found Mr. Molvar's guide useful. The trail descriptions and ratings are accurate for the hikes I've compared to the text, and the author has a clear easy to read style.

I recommend this book. It will not take the place of a detailed map or tell all that one may discover on a particular hike, but it is a useful tool.

I'd never been to the Bighorns before, so bought this book to help plan our family vacation. I found it to be an ideal guide: it has easy-to-read sketch maps, and good, clear descriptions of regions and trails. Also incredibly valuable are the detailed descriptions of how to find various trailheads; most of these are in the relatively unregulated national forest, and many of them can only be accessed after a hike of a couple of miles or with a 4-wheel drive vehicle.

The Bighorns cover a huge area, and there are really two main sections; it's good to know in advance if you're going to focus on the northern part of the range (out of Sheridan) or the southern (out of Buffalo). Getting from east to west isn't too bad, but getting from the southern part to the northern part is a real trek. This book helped me figure out that most of the hikes we would be able to do were in the southwestern section, so we camped there and had a terrific experience.

this is awesome will take my summers away from the foothills and up into the real wilderness, easy to understand maps, just a great product..

This a very helpful and informative book on anyone who should want to hike in the Cloud Peak Wilderness. It gives trails, elevation, distances from trail head to each connection on the trail for the end of the journey. I highly recommend this book to hikers.